The bill would implement federal school-threat assessment protocols designed to prevent school shootings.

DESTIN — The City Council on Monday agreed that it needs more information before it can decide whether to finalize and open the city’s planned Zerbe Street pay-to-park parking lot.In a recent memo to City Manager Carisse LeJeune, city Public Services Director David Campbell said staff planned to install pay-to-park regulatory and informational signs this week at the 51-space lot, which is on the northeast corner of Zerbe [...]

School District: “The good news is the app works for sure and generates an amazing response from law enforcement. Our apologies for the false alarm.”

NAVARRE — A Fort Walton Beach man died and two of his three passengers were injured in a single-vehicle crash Wednesday night.According to a press release from the Florida Highway Patrol, 49-year-old David Miles Weichman suffered fatal injuries when he lost control of the Toyota Tundra he was driving on U.S. Highway 98 near Snapdragon Drive at 6 p.m. Wednesday. Weichman's car traveled onto the south shoulder of the roadway before it overturned and collided with a tree. [...]

FORT WALTON BEACH — The City Council on Tuesday approved the first reading of an ordinance for the voluntary annexation of a church-owned property on Hill Avenue.The 13.85-acre parcel is at 233 Hill Ave. N.W., just north of the west end of Lovejoy Road. The land is owned by Miramar Beach-based Destiny Worship Center Inc., and currently stands in unincorporated Okaloosa County.The [...]

Fifty-seven percent of all adults, including more than 8 in 10 blacks, three-quarters of Hispanics and nearly half of whites, said they think Trump is racist.

FORT WALTON BEACH — A group of Choctawhatchee High School students is organizing a "March for our Lives" to push for gun reform and school safety.Baili Pettet, a 17-year-old senior at Choctaw who is dual enrolled and one of three student organizers of the event, said the march is part of a nationwide day of protests to encourage legislative action on gun reform.“It’s really important for us to raise awareness because students everywhere in our [...]

Speaking in a state-of-the-nation speech, Putin said the weapons include a nuclear-powered cruise missile, a nuclear-powered underwater drone and new hypersonic missile that have no equivalent elsewhere in the world.

Trump held a freewheeling, televised meeting with lawmakers at the White House that stretched for an hour Wednesday, and he rejected both his party's incremental approach and its strategy that has stalled action on gun legislation.

FORT WALTON BEACH — City officials are accepting proposals through late March from entities interested in leasing the city-owned building that formerly housed Venture Hive on the north end of Fort Walton Landing.The roughly 5,900-square-foot building is at 139 Brooks St. SE. The nonprofit Emerald Coast Science Center leased the property at below-market rates from 1989 until late 2014, when it moved to its current location [...]