Local high schools shine despite changing standards (DOCUMENTS)
Continuously changing standards didn’t seem to affect the overall performance of local high school students.
View ArticleDJJ to remove girls from facility
The Milton Girls Juvenile Residential Facility in East Milton will be closed on Dec. 24, according to the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice. The girls remaining in the facility at this time are...
View ArticleEglin’s Cub Scout Pack 50 sends cards to peers in Connecticut (SLIDESHOW)
Members of Cub Scout Pack 50 gathered Friday around Cub Master Christopher Calhoun in the base’s small post office.
View ArticleWoman faces child porn charges
A woman believed to be the one shown molesting a small child in a video that sparked an international manhunt has been arrested in Florosa.
View ArticleLocal gun sales on the rise
Local gun shop owners are seeing an increase in sales because of fear of a possible ban on assault weapons stemming from the Dec. 15 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
View ArticleChurches to offer Christmas Eve party for the homeless
For some 10 years, churches in south Okaloosa County have made sure homeless people have a festive way to spend Christmas Eve.
View ArticleUS judge OKs settlement in BP class action suit
A federal judge on Friday gave final approval to BP PLC's settlement with businesses and people who lost money because of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
View ArticleNew Year's Eve celebration venues
The bars and restaurants of the Emerald Coast are a popular destination for locals New Year’s Eve celebrations.
View ArticleA week after school massacre, new details emerge
As the nation paused to mark a week since the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, new details emerged Friday about the gunman, Adam Lanza, who acquaintances said was able to take apart and...
View ArticleMan arrested for indecent exposure
A 29-year-old man was arrested for indecent exposure in public Thursday after an off-duty female Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputy saw him exposed in the parking lot of the Destin Dollar Tree on...
View ArticleOcean City-Wright gets $6,000 for radios
The Ocean City-Wright Fire Control District has received a $6,000 donation from a resident in the form of 10 hand-held radios and eight truck radios.
View ArticleLast trial of sheriff’s kickback ended with conviction
On Oct. 18, Assistant State Attorney Russ Edgar obtained his fifth and final conviction of Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office staff members involved in a bonus kickback scandal that brought down Sheriff...
View ArticleSite work begins on Holiday Inn Express
Construction crews have begun preliminary site work on a 74-room Holiday Inn Express on Mary Esther Cut-Off.
View ArticleThe changing of the guard
Forty-five years of judicial experience will walk out the door of the Okaloosa County Courthouse Annex Extension on Dec. 31.
View ArticleVigil honors the memory of those lost at Sandy Hook (GALLERY)
Locals came together at The Boardwalk on Okaloosa Island on Saturday to remember the victims of the Connecticut shooting.
View Article‘Super bear’ rally to aid Newtown, Conn.
A donation rally to collect “super bears” and letters of encouragement for the children of Newtown, Conn., is scheduled for 3 p.m. Wednesday at Uptown Station’s Central Park.
View ArticleBizarre Christmas Eve plane crash remembered
MIRAMAR BEACH — The fog rolled in quickly on that long-ago Christmas Eve, and by 1 p.m., it was so thick that people on the top floors of Hidden Dunes Resort couldn’t see the ground.
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