April 2018




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Regatta Bay 20th celebration benefits local charities

DESTIN — Regatta Bay Golf and Yacht Club's recent three-day 20th Anniversary Celebration raised $27,000 for One Hopeful Place and $9,000 for the Emerald Coast Honor Games, organizers announced Monday.“The community at large and the homeowners of Regatta Bay came out in a huge way to support the charities and the event itself," said Dwight Lorenzen, managing partner of Regatta Bay Investors, Ltd., the owner of Regatta Bay Golf and Yacht Club.One Hopeful Place [...]
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‘This was like a war’: Witnesses remember day MLK was shot

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Clara Ester's eyes were fixed on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as he stood on the concrete balcony of the Lorraine Motel.[gh:iframe src="https://omny.fm/shows/ap-news-headlines/playlists/podcast/embed?style=artwork" width="100%" height="180" frameborder="0"][/gh:iframe]King was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike, and Ester, a college student, had been marching alongside the strikers as they sought better pay and working [...]
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Saltwater aquarium at airport to help promote the Emerald Coast

DESTIN — Five blue and yellow damselfish, a spider-like arrow crab, red and orange sponges, coral that resemble giant noodles, and a lionfish that were pulled from the Gulf of Mexico on Monday soon will join other colorful creatures from the deep to help greet visitors at Destin Fort Walton Beach Airport.A total of about 30-40 species, most of which are native, are about to go on display in a 210-gallon saltwater aquarium at [...]
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‘A disaster about to happen:’ Florida student who bought rifles and showed odd behavior is arrested

Law enforcement officials in central Florida say they may have thwarted another school tragedy after arresting a 26-year-old international student who bought two rifles and was exhibiting troubling changes in his behavior.Wenliang Sun, a Chinese national enrolled at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, did not make any threats against the school or other students. But campus Police Chief Richard Beary said that "red flag after red [...]
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Witnesses remember day MLK was shot

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Clara Ester's eyes were fixed on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as he stood on the concrete balcony of the Lorraine Motel.King was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers' strike, and Ester, a college student, had been marching alongside the strikers as they sought better pay and working conditions. She and some friends had gone to the motel for a catfish dinner when she saw King chatting happily, not far from where she stood.Then Ester heard the [...]
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