In a letter to the Okaloosa County Department of Growth Management, Jason Toole of CPH Inc. in Panama City stated that Walmart Management has ended its attempt to build a second store on Richbourg Lane in Crestview.

NICEVILLE — A fire that began in a bedroom destroyed a moble home Wednesday morning."We had a fire mainly in the center of the bedroom about halfway down the trailer that quickly spread throughout the trailer," Niceville Fire Chief Tommy Mayville said.Firefighters extinguished the blaze in about 5 minutes as police blocked the intersection of Madison Road and Crestview Avenue.An investigator from the State Fire Marshal's Office was headed [...]

A former doctor accused of molesting girls while working for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University pleaded guilty Wednesday to multiple charges of sexual assault and will face at least 25 years in prison.

LOS ANGELES — David Cassidy of "The Partridge Family" fame died Tuesday at age 67.Publicist JoAnn Geffen released a statement Tuesday evening saying Cassidy had died "surrounded by those he loved." No further details were immediately available, but Geffen said Saturday that Cassidy was in a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, hospital suffering from organ failure.The teen and pre-teen idol starred in the 1970s sitcom and sold millions of records as the musical group's lead [...]

Three days after her birthday on Jan. 27, the 53-year-old moved into her new two-bedroom apartment in Fort Walton Beach. She said she wakes up every morning so thankful to the people who made her birthday wish come true.

Raised as a girl, he felt more like a boy. He wanted to be called Theo instead of the name he was given at birth. He wrote a detailed letter to teachers to explain which pronouns he preferred and cited school policy on LGBTQ inclusion.

ATLANTA — One of the nation's largest domed stadiums collapsed Monday into a pile of jagged concrete and a vast cloud of smoke in a scheduled implosion in downtown Atlanta.Nearly 5,000 pounds (2,270 kilograms) of explosives were used to blast the Georgia Dome in Atlanta to smithereens at 7:30 a.m. Onlookers gathered at skyscrapers' windows, at a restaurant atop the city's tallest hotel, in parking lots and on nearby streets to watch the destruction of the landmark stadium. [...]

PBS says it is immediately halting distribution of Charlie Rose's interview program and CBS News suspended him following The Washington Post's report of eight women who accused the veteran newsman of multiple unwanted sexual advances and inappropriate behavior.

President Donald Trump announced Monday that the U.S. will designate North Korea as a state sponsor of terror amid heightened nuclear tensions on the Korean peninsula.

Predators and parasites are having a field day in the bay, thwarting the reproductive capacity of oysters to rebuild their populations on the bars where they live.