Woman says everything in the purse - except the pill - is hers
CRESTVIEW - Police arrested a woman after they found a clonazepam pill in her purse. On Jan. 11 Carly Elizabeth Palucci allowed Crestview Police to search her purse. The arrest report didn't describe...
View ArticleFAC: Planning for BP money will pay off for counties
Florida is behind other Gulf Coast states in preparing a multi-year plan to spend money that will come to a 23-county consortium through the RESTORE Act. But according to a representative of the...
View ArticleA sign for a sign (VIDEO, GALLERY)
FORT WALTON BEACH — With a smile on every face, some 50 protesters pressed to the edge of the sidewalk Saturday as they waved and chanted at cars passing on Beal Parkway. Their signs calling for the...
View ArticleKatie Renfroe celebrates her birthday at Fat Daddy’s Arcade
DESTIN — Katie Renfroe couldn’t stop gazing at the blue ceiling at Fat Daddy’s Arcade, mesmerized by the quarter-sized mirrors that twinkled down on her. “I don’t think she ever gets bored,” said her...
View ArticleCalling all beautiful babies!
When it comes to babies, you know yours is the most beautiful — not just on the Emerald Coast but the entire world. Here’s your chance to let the entire world in on your secret: Enter the Daily News’...
View Article10-year–old witnesses history at inauguration
CRESTVIEW — A three-day trip to Washington, D.C., for President Barack Obama’s inauguration has convinced a Bob Sikes Elementary School student that she wants to see more. For Justice Livingston, a...
View ArticleProposed strip club draws opposition
DESTIN — Patti Terjak isn’t putting out the welcome mat for her potential new neighbor: a strip club likely to be called The Runway. Terjak isn’t alone. More than 60 people opposed to the business...
View ArticleDesign of consolidated rec center moves forward
FORT WALTON BEACH — The City Council is one step closer to finalizing the design of the consolidated recreation center that will replace the Fred Hedrick Center on Jet Drive. Architect and...
View ArticleWorld War II vet recalls P-51 missions
FORT WALTON BEACH — In January 1944, the Army Air Forces handed then-21-year-old Charlie Shiff a pistol and a tin hat and loaded him onto a train to New York and then on a ship across the Atlantic...
View ArticleCoyote Ugly coming to Destin
DESTIN — A Coyote Ugly Saloon is set to open on Destin Harbor. “We finalized the lease two days ago,” owner Joanna Olsen said last week. Coyote Ugly, which is slated to open in the former Shed BBQ...
View ArticleCrestview woman to appear on ‘Today’ show for cooking prize
CRESTVIEW— An award-winning home chef has added a feather to her toque blanche. Sherri Williams, who won Crock-Pot’s Crockin’ in the USA contest in December, started last weekend on a high note with a...
View ArticleChautauqua Festival (SLIDESHOW)
History comes to life at the 2013 Chautauqua Assembly festival held this weekend in DeFuniak Springs. Visitors Sunday got an up-close look at the tools and lifestyles of Native Americans and watched a...
View ArticleBody of woman found in bay
A woman’s body was found Sunday in Choctawhatchee Bay behind a home at 4105 Indian Trail in Destin, according to a news release from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. The remains were partially in...
View ArticleMotorcyclist critical following Sunday wreck
A 57-year-old motorcyclist is in critical condition following a wreck on Old Bagdad Highway and Rice Road. Thomas Alton Sanders was traveling east on Old Bagdad when the rear tire of his 1977 Honda...
View ArticleOfficials seek help in sexual abuse case
Officials are seeking help with an investigation of a man accused of multiple counts of sexual battery on a child. Donzell Kevin Nuckles has been charged with four counts of sexual battery on a child...
View ArticleUPDATE: Autopsy to be performed on body found in bay
Authorities have not been able to identify the body of a woman found Sunday in Choctawhatchee Bay. Jeff Martin, director with the Medical Examiner’s Office, said an autopsy is scheduled to be...
View ArticleMegan Landreth defies the odds: 'I just knew I had to fight'
Megan Landreth still has battle wounds from her fight with cancer. But just as she said she would seven months ago, Landreth has beaten the odds. The White-Wilson Medical Center nurse was told last...
View ArticleSurvey sheds light on SRO programs around the state
Florida school districts might vary in size, population and finances, but they all share one common denominator: school resource officers. According to a survey released by the Florida Department of...
View ArticleInvestigation continues into Mossy Head murder
An appeal appearing last November on Hayley Bowden’s Facebook page, made by a man identifying himself as her uncle, provides insight into the life of the 16-year-old murder suspect. “My niece is...
View ArticleDeveloper to build hangar at Bob Sikes Airport
CRESTVIEW — A Pensacola developer has plans to build a giant hangar at Bob Sikes Airport in hopes of attracting an aerospace company to the area. Dan Gilmore, the owner of RONDAN Investments, will...
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