FORT WALTON BEACH — Surrounded by family and friends, former Assistant State Attorney Angela Mason placed her hand on a pair of family Bibles Monday morning at the Okaloosa County Courthouse and achieved her lifelong dream of becoming a judge. With her husband, David, [...]

MILTON —Santa Rosa County Commissioners are looking to increase annual rates for fire district services in unincorporated areas in the county.In February, Navarre Beach Fire Rescue went to the board to approve rate increases for fire services. But officials said that there would first need a study to assess department needs before a rate increase could be implemented. And instead of looking at just one department, they had the study cover nine other fire departments in [...]

Judges cannot consider domestic, gang violence as grounds for protection by U.S., attorney general says

Wade Hahn has a goal of raising $3,000 for the Community Counseling Foundation and to raise awareness for depression and suicide.

The teacher explained his agricultural class' farm animals were being killed by the varmints.

DESTIN — A Panama City man faces multiple charges after using fake credit cards to withdraw cash from an ATM machine in Destin early Tuesday morning, according to a press release from Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office.OCSO responded to a call of suspicious activity at the Hancock Whitney Bank at 14075 Emerald Coast Parkway shortly before 4 a.m. after a man was seen covering up the camera at the ATM machine and making multiple transactions with multiple cards, maxing out each [...]

Bodies were so thickly coated with ash that they looked like statues, and rescuers were forced to use sledgehammers to break through the roofs of houses buried in debris up to their rooflines to try to see if anyone was trapped inside.

NAVARRE BEACH — 'Tis the season for boating – which means a lot of people are using public boat launches.This past weekend, sand had drifted onto the approach to one of three ramps at the Navarre Beach Boat Ramp, closing one lane to some boat trailers and creating traction issues for others who used it.On Sunday, Amy Burgdoff and her family had issues launching her parent's boat into Santa Rosa Sound from the ramps behind Juana's Pagoda due to the sand [...]

Schultz's move comes after he ceded the day-to-day duties of CEO at Starbucks last year to focus on innovation and social-impact projects as executive chairman.