Plan your Martin Luther King Jr. Day activities (PHOTOS)
FORT WALTON BEACH — This year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations will kick off soon with the annual parade, memorial and rally. The 2014 observances will mark the 85th birthday of Dr. Martin...
View Article'Team Work Makes the Dream Work'
FORT WALTON BEACH — What is it about teamwork that helps dreams come true? Today, more than 300 students will share their thoughts on how “Team Work Makes the Dream Work” and posters on the theme as...
View ArticleWant to weigh in on new interchanges for I-10? Here's your chance
CRESTVIEW — The need for at least one, if not two more interchanges along Interstate 10 attracted residents and local officials to a meeting Thursday hosted by the Florida Department of...
View ArticleSnowbirds sing praises of Emerald Coast (PHOTOS)
It’s official: Snowbirds love the Emerald Coast. Thousands of the fun-loving seniors made their way to the Emerald Coast Convention Center Friday morning for the annual Winter Guest Fest. They...
View ArticleIt's kind of like recess, except it's for adults, and it's fun
FORT WALTON BEACH — Feeling nostalgic for recess? For those fleeting glories of the playground? Matt Pacheco and Jim Bay totally get it. In fact, they’re inviting your inner 12-year-old to join their...
View ArticleMan refuses deputy, gets an 'arm bar technique'
FORT WALTON BEACH – A local man didn’t want to do anything an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputy told him to do. He did, however, want to kick that deputy. That’s according to an arrest report. Things...
View ArticleTase 1, Tase 2, Tase 3 don't work; fourth time a charm?
FORT WALTON BEACH – Wow. This fellow should audition for the next “X-Men” movie. His mutation could be: He’s impervious to Tasers. The incident began when Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputies went to a...
View ArticleA last, cherished photo (PHOTOS)
CRESTVIEW — The many faces of “JD” Lord peeked out from photos spread from one end of his parents’ kitchen table to the other. He took selfies before they were cool, said Tara Lord, his wife of eight...
View ArticleBowdens lend support to local FCA chapter (PHOTOS)
SHALIMAR— The relatively new Okaloosa/Walton County Fellowship of Christian Athletes ministry is fighting to raise awareness and funding for its cause. Bringing in the winningest college football...
View ArticleCity Hall sale in danger
DEFUNIAK SPRINGS — Days after announcing the pending sale of City Hall, Mayor Bob Campbell learned the deal appeared to have fallen through. The city had signed a $3 million sales agreement for the...
View ArticleRemembering a gentle soul (PHOTOS)
FORT WALTON BEACH — Joe Sullivan’s smile crinkled his eyes and lit up his face in the photo that looked over the room filled with his friends. View a photo gallery from the memorial service for Joe...
View ArticleStudents know the value of teamwork (PHOTOS)
FORT WALTON BEACH — Fifty years and counting since the famed 1963 “I have a Dream” speech, an American icon’s legacy lives on. Ninety-five Okaloosa County elementary, middle and high school students...
View ArticleThe start of the Red Bar
GRAYTON BEACH — If you think the Red Bar restaurant is quirky and full of character, meet its landlord. TC Cannon is 76 and almost always is dressed in University of Alabama Birmingham green, bound...
View ArticleFrom cars to bars, man finds his calling
GRAYTON BEACH — After growing up on a dairy farm where he helped milk 140 cows a day before breakfast, TC Cannon tried to make his way in the world by racing cars. The Birmingham teenager left Alabama...
View Article‘Midas men’ found gold in Grayton Beach
TC Cannon and his friends loved to fish and play golf, particularly in the annual Grayton Beach Open, but they were also “Midas men.” “Everything they touched turned to gold,” Cannon recalls of his...
View ArticleMan found on shore still unidentified
The Medical Examiner’s Office continues to search for the identity of the man found on the shore of Choctawhatchee Bay on Christmas Day. He is one of 14 unidentified bodies being investigated by the...
View ArticleSex offender arrested for rape
FREEPORT - A registered sex offender was charged Friday with raping a woman, according to the Walton County Sheriff's Office. The victim was driving 37-year-old Johnathon Michael Saylor to his home in...
View ArticleMission trip a revelation for high school senior
FORT WALTON BEACH — Jesse Girard keeps himself busy with something scheduled almost every day of the week. The senior at Choctawhatchee High School takes college-level classes, has been a class...
View Article'Get the (deleted) out of my way'
CRESTVIEW – A man said something nasty to another man and shoved him out of the way, resulting in a fall and a call, according to an arrest report. The man, 32-year-old Kenneth Allen Cain of...
View ArticleWoman says she might have scratched hubby's neck while grabbing at phone
FORT WALTON BEACH – A woman was arrested after she tried to grab her husband’s phone from his hand so he couldn’t all the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. The two were involved in a dispute at their...
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