Students participate in alternative spring break: 'I feel inspired'
FORT WALTON BEACH — The sound of thumping, sawing and grunting took over Methodist Avenue on Wednesday morning as students from a college in Kentucky helped build a home for a single mother. Habitat...
View ArticleLawmen: Woman took friend's credit card, went shopping
CRESTVIEW – With friends like this, who needs enemies? A 30-year-old Crestview woman is accused of taking a friend’s credit card and using it to buy stuff at Walmart, signing the friend’s name,...
View ArticleMan enters charity's office with bottle of whiskey; trouble follows
CRESTVIEW – A drunken man stumbled into a local charity and tried to grab several cans of food, resulting in his arrest for disorderly intoxication. On Feb. 26 the staff at Sharing and Caring on...
View ArticleNo seatbelt, no prescription ... drug arrest follows
CRESTVIEW – A man faces drug charges, after a Crestview Police officer spotted driving down Ferdon Boulevard while not wearing a seatbelt. On Feb. 19 the officer stopped 26-year-old Rickey Otis Booker...
View ArticleFreeport seeks new fire chief (GALLERY)
FREEPORT — The search for a new fire chief is under way more than five months after the City Council fired its former chief. A committee comprised of local fire chiefs, Walton County Emergency...
View ArticleJamieson challenges Nabors for FWB City Council seat
FORT WALTON BEACH — Amy Jamieson will challenge incumbent Bobby Nabors for his City Council seat in the March 12 municipal election. For Jamieson, a local Realtor who has lived in Fort Walton Beach...
View ArticleCounty to check employees’ role in Bellinger scandal (DOCUMENT)
After defending their handling of the Tourist Development Council scandal to state lawmakers twice in the past month, Okaloosa County Commissioners say it’s unclear whether they will be summoned back...
View ArticleEglin general: Furloughs just one part of sequestration
FORT WALTON BEACH — The civilian furloughs have been announced, but more impacts from the $45 billion in sequestration cuts to the Department of Defense could soon hit Eglin Air Force Base. Brig. Gen....
View ArticleNo breaks for spring breakers (VIDEO)
SHALIMAR — With a screech, a tinkle of breaking glass and a final crunch, Okaloosa County Sheriff Larry Ashley crushed about $1 million worth of locally seized drug paraphernalia with a construction...
View ArticleBig innings help Raiders cruise to blowout win (GALLERY)
NICEVILLE - With the start on Panhandle Conference play looming, Northwest Florida State College head baseball coach Doug Martin was hoping to see his Raiders begin to play their best baseball during...
View ArticleRiding to recover (GALLERY)
A couple of years ago, Adam McCann was an injured veteran looking for something missing in his life. “I was struggling to find a sport I could do,” he said. “Another veteran was, like, ‘Have you tried...
View ArticlePeople, pooches team up to fight flab at Ill. gym
CHICAGO (AP) — Can't get rid of that paunch? A Chicago-area gym suggests working out with your pooch. K9 Fit Club offers bow wow boot camps and other classes for people and their puppies to exercise...
View ArticleUK's 'naked rambler' arrested for nudity, again
LONDON (AP) — A British man who has spent most of the past decade naked — and in jail — was back behind bars Friday after defying an order to cover up. Stephen Gough, known as the "Naked Rambler," was...
View ArticleNo one injured in school bus crash
FORT WALTON BEACH - No one was injured Wednesday when a motorist hit the rear of a school bus on Lewis Turner Boulevard just south of Mooney Road, according to Florida Highway Patrol. Michael John...
View ArticleMan convicted of armed robbery, battery of 69-year-old
FORT WALTON BEACH - A 57-year-old man was convicted Tuesday of robbery with a weapon and battery on a person 65 years old or older, according to the state attorney’s office. John Thomas Filbin...
View ArticleJohn Sims work to slow traffic at night
NICEVILLE - Motorists traveling John Sims Parkway from east of swift Creek to Benton Drive will encounter nightly lane restrictions for the next two weeks, according to the state Department of...
View ArticleCook commits to University of Oregon
Drawing the attention from a who’s who of ranked D-I programs, from top-ranked Gonzaga to 21st-ranked Virgina Commonwealth to 12th-ranked New Mexico, Northwest Florida State freshman Elgin Cook has...
View ArticleRegion 8 title or bust: Raiders look to avenge loss in opening round
NICEVILLE – When Northwest Florida State head coach Steve Forbes hits the recruiting trail, he lays before the potential Raiders three expectations. Suited for a program coming off a NJCAA Div-I...
View ArticleMissouri man critical after wreck on I-10
CRESTVIEW - A motorist was in critical condition Wednesday night after a crash on Interstate 10 east of town that afternoon. Richard Shawn McDaniel, 37, of Missouri, was driving a 1991 Dodge pickup...
View ArticleNavarre man killed in Thursday shooting
NAVARRE — A 31-year-old man died from multiple gunshot wounds early Thursday morning. Philip Craig Davenport was pronounced dead at his home in the 9000 block of Larker Woods Drive, according to a...
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