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 [...]

These Florida lotteries were drawn Sunday:Fantasy 5: 04-09-13-16-34Mega Millions: estimated jackpot $612 millionPick 2 Evening: 4-5Pick 2 Midday: 2-0Pick 3 Evening: 1-5-8Pick 3 Midday: 9-8-9Pick 4 Evening: 9-6-4-5Pick 4 Midday: 3-2-3-8Pick 5 Evening: 3-5-1-6-4Pick [...]

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 [...]

Jesse Hernandez had been playing with other children on wooden planks over an access portal to the sewer system during a family outing Sunday at a Los Angeles park.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Israel announced a deal with the U.N. on Monday to resettle African migrants in Western nations, but hours later put the agreement on hold.

NAVARRE — The lawsuit between Navarre Area Chamber of Commerce and Beach Community Bank President & CEO Tony Hughes has been settled.In May 2016, Hughes filed a defamation lawsuit against the chamber and its former CEO, Judy Morehead. The legal complaint alleges Morehead made false claims at a chamber board meeting that Hughes had taken money out of the NBACC's Military Affairs bank account, held the funds personally and had been forced to return them.In a letter [...]

CRESTVIEW — A group of relatives and friends gathered March 27 in honor of Calandra Stallworth, a Crestview resident who has been missing for a year.Lighted candles and flowers surrounded Stallworth's photo placed on a chair on her grandmother's porch, just a few feet away from the  house Stallworth once rented for herself and her two daughters.Daniel Jackson of Crestview, an assistant minister, [...]