Earlier this month, the Choctawhatchee Style Marchers hosted a middle school band night for Liza Jackson Preparatory, Meigs Middle and Pryor Middle schools.The students performed together the national anthem and several pop songs and cheer tunes.Choctaw directors Jay McArthur and Brad Parks welcomed directors Mary Lambeth of LJPS, Ann Leffard of MMS, and Hank Phillips of PMS.---The chess club at Rocky Bayou Christian Academy elected Elijah Suh as its president, [...]

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Three UCLA basketball players accused of shoplifting in China apologized Wednesday before coach Steve Alford announced they were being suspended indefinitely.

CRESTVIEW — A two-vehicle traffic accident snarled the morning commute Wednesday, blocking both lanes of southbound State Road 85 just south of the Interstate 10 interchange.The wreck, which occurred shortly after 7 a.m., involved a Mitsubishi Mirage sedan driven by Joy A. Long, 63, of Crestview and a GMC pickup truck driven by Bruce M. Smith, 30, also of Crestview. The pickup overturned and blocked the left travel lane and part of the right lane. Okaloosa County [...]

Okaloosa County is serving as a backdrop for “The Maple Leaf Murders,” a short film by local independent filmmaker Nick Smith, who is making his first foray into comedy.

A half-dozen Democrats on Wednesday introduced articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, accusing him of obstruction of justice and other offenses, in a long-shot effort that stands little chance in the Republican-led House.

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — A Florida city is expected to change the names of three streets named for Confederate generals after a contentious debate.The Hollywood City Commission is expected to vote Wednesday to change the names of streets named for Robert E. Lee, Nathan Bedford Forrest and John Bell Hood to Freedom, Hope and Liberty.The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports that at least five of the seven commissioners are expected to approve the change. The streets were named [...]

Marianna-based Ducky Johnson House Movers will be paid $149,800 in city Community Redevelopment Agency money to move the two-story, roughly 5,500-square-foot building and set it on a new foundation.

Nearly two-thirds of Australians supported gay marriage in a postal survey that ensures Parliament will consider legalizing same-sex weddings this year, although the form any law would take and its allowances for religious objections sparked immediate debate.

FORT WALTON BEACH — A man suffered minor injuries Tuesday afternoon when he was struck on his bicycle by a car on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.Jean Velez-Roman, 25, was sent to the hospital after Vinqueetra Kinzer, a 25-year-old man from Navarre, drove his 2012 Mitsubishi Lancer into the bicycle lane at 4:15 p.m. and hit the back of Velez-Roman's bike, [...]