The speech marks the ceremonial kickoff of Trump's second year in office and is traditionally a president's biggest platform to speak to the nation.

MARY ESTHER — A man being detained on drug charges, who initially denied knowing where the drugs and vaporizer in his car came from, told deputies, “I guess you shouldn’t buy a vaporizer from a guy outside a drug store” as he was being arrested.According to an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrest report, on Jan. 22 authorities responded to a disturbance call at a home on Bryn Mawr Blvd. in Mary Esther and made contact with the 30-year-old man. [...]

Hawaii has been testing alert capabilities, and the employee for the state Emergency Management Agency mistook a drill for a real warning about a missile threat.

Bay County sheriff’s deputies responding to a verbal disturbance find a mom who’s had just about enough of her 52-year-old live-at-home son. The woman reports she’s been arguing with her son and wants him out of the house. “She could not explain what she and her son were arguing about but advised he does not pay any bills and is constantly pestering her by playing his music too loudly,” the deputy wrote. “She advised he has lived at the [...]

President Donald Trump has five days to object to the release of the memo, though he has signaled he wants it made public.

CRESTVIEW — It's been 30 years since Deborah Vining Mattox got her first exotic animal: a spider monkey named Baby Sarah.She probably didn't know at the time that the acquisition of the tiny monkey would put her on a path to owning a zoo that, at its zenith, was home to more than 150 animals.The facility, then known as the Sasquatch Zoo, was sold to the Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge in 2013. It changed hands again last year when a South Florida family bought it with [...]