Local municipalities win awards from League of Cities
Three local municipalities have been honored with Community of Excellence awards from the Northwest Florida League of Cities. Fort Walton Beach, Niceville and Freeport were recognized last week at the...
View ArticleAirport art display 'fell together beautifully'
VALPARAISO — A new art display is in place at Northwest Florida Regional Airport. Earlier this month, members of Okaloosa Public Arts started placing more than 80 paintings, sketches, photographs and...
View ArticleHouse panel set to OK cut in food stamp program
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee rebuffed Democratic efforts Wednesday to keep the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program whole, as debate on the farm bill turned into a theological discourse on...
View ArticleHolder defends subpoenas for AP telephone records
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress Wednesday that a serious national security leak required the secret gathering of telephone records at The Associated Press as he stood by an...
View ArticleHolder: Potential civil rights violations at IRS
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI is investigating potential civil rights violations at the Internal Revenue Service after the agency acknowledged the agency had singled out conservative groups for extra...
View ArticleA timeline of the IRS's scrutiny of the right
A look at events leading to the disclosure that the Internal Revenue Service placed conservative groups under special scrutiny for 18 months before the 2012 elections, a practice that has prompted...
View ArticleFirst Deputy Tony Forgione memorial SWAT competition to be held
The first annual Anthony Forgione Memorial SWAT Competition will be held during National Police Week., according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office. The event honors former Okaloosa County...
View ArticleOfficials to mark completion of beach restoration in west Destin
DESTIN — For the first time in years, the beaches of Holiday Isle are overflowing with sugar-white sand. The wider and taller shoreline is the result of the recently completed West Destin Beach...
View ArticleIRS steered clear of local tea parties
Local tea party groups said they haven’t been bothered by the Internal Revenue Service. But Joe Pascarella, former head of the Niceville Valparaiso Tea Party, said fear of IRS retaliation against his...
View ArticleState group to help Walton County get an administrator
SANTA ROSA BEACH — Walton County’s third search for a county administrator in three years is going to be conducted a little differently than previously. At the suggestion of Chris Holley, executive...
View ArticleSubject flown to Pensacola hospital after officer-involved shooting
FORT WALTON BEACH — A man was in stable condition at a Pensacola hospital Wednesday night after he was shot by an Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputy, according to the Sheriff’s Office. View a photo...
View ArticleIRS commissioner ousted over tea party targeting
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hurrying to check a growing controversy, President Barack Obama ousted the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service late Wednesday amid an outcry over revelations that the...
View ArticleCyclists remember those killed on the road
FORT WALTON BEACH — It took Carolyn Newcomber Ketchel seven years to hear her brother’s name read at Wednesday’s Ride of Silence. Stephen Newcomber was killed many years ago while bicycling to his...
View ArticleWildfire near Garcon Point Bridge mostly contained
GULF BREEZE - A wildfire along Stanford Road near the Garcon Point Bridge was 75 percent contained Wednesday night, according to the Florida Forest Service. Firefighters had been battling the fire...
View ArticleWhooping cough case confirmed
A case of pertussis, or whooping cough, has been confirmed in Santa Rosa County, according to the Health Department. The person’s family and immediate friends have been contacted and are being...
View ArticleCouple sentenced to two years for fraud
TALLAHASSEE - Rudolf Straat and his wife Maria Gudelis, who lived in Sandestin from October 2005 through July 2007, were sentenced to two years in federal prison Wednesday for conspiring to commit tax...
View ArticleFDLE investigating Wednesday's officer-involved shooting
FORT WALTON BEACH — A man was in stable condition at a Pensacola hospital Wednesday night after he was shot by an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputy, according to the Sheriff’s Office. View a photo...
View ArticleFDLE investigating Wednesday's officer-involved shooting
FORT WALTON BEACH — A man was in stable condition at a Pensacola hospital Wednesday night after he was shot by an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputy, according to the Sheriff’s Office. View a photo...
View ArticleFDLE investigating Wednesday's officer-involved shooting
FORT WALTON BEACH — A man was in stable condition at a Pensacola hospital Wednesday night after he was shot by an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputy, according to the Sheriff’s Office. View a photo...
View ArticleFDLE investigating Wednesday's officer-involved shooting
FORT WALTON BEACH — A man was in stable condition at a Pensacola hospital Wednesday night after he was shot by an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputy, according to the Sheriff’s Office. View a photo...
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