VALPARAISO — A Valparaiso man died Thursday after being crushed underneath his pickup truck while doing repairs.The Valparaiso Police Department, Valparaiso Volunteer Fire Department and Okaloosa EMS responded to a call at Southview Avenue about a man being pinned underneath a vehicle.The victim, John Newberry, had been doing repairs with a business partner and removed the front tires from the vehicle and propped it up with car jacks, according to Valparaiso Fire [...]

A 34-year-old Pace man was found guilty late last week of lewd or lascivious molestation, according to a press release from the State Attorney's office.A Santa Rosa County jury decided that Randy Roberto Bess committed the crime in July 2015 at his home by touching the victim’s private area underneath her clothes. Bess later admitted it to a friend.He was arrested Nov 4, 2016 following an investigation by the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office. [...]

John Kelly also dismissed the idea of a short-term extension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program beyond March 5 to give the administration and Congress more time to work out compromise legislation.

GAINESVILLE — Former three-time All-SEC Florida quarterback Shane Matthews, a current Gainesville resident, radio personality and assistant high school football coach, has been sentenced to three months in prison for his role in a healthcare fraud conspiracy orchestrated by another former UF player, linebacker Monty Grow.Matthews, 47, was sentenced in a south Florida court last week after pleading guilty on Aug. 17, 2017, to one count of causing a drug to be misbranded. [...]

The two-year-old Crestview girl was injured in a Friday night blaze at a Crestview motel

DEFUNIAK SPRINGS — A firefighter was injured after battling a blaze at a DeFuniak Springs home on Monday evening.According to a press release from Walton County Fire Rescue, crews from WCFR, DeFuniak Springs Fire Department and Argyle Volunteer Fire Department responded to a mobile home fire at 2817 Cosson Rd. just after 8 p.m. Monday.The home was fully engulfed in flames when firefighters and paramedics arrived. All residents of the home made it out safely, but one [...]

The Laurel Hill man was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.

The Democratic memo, intended as a counter to the GOP document, has deepened a partisan divide on the committee.

MILTON — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission filed these cases between Jan. 19 and 25 in Santa Rosa County:While on patrol, Officer Mullins was checking a subject who had recently taken a deer. The subject had a cooler full of fresh deer meat, but the subject did not have the meat tagged and did not possess any sex evidence showing that the meat was from a legal deer.Officer Hutchinson arrived shortly thereafter to assist. The subject admitted to taking [...]

CRESTVIEW — Italian restaurant Vitaliano Pizza, Pasta & More will open in Crestview sometime next month.On the menu will be Neapolitan-style pizzas baked in a brick oven, homemade pastas such as lasagna, tagliolini with meat sauce, spaghetti with clams and gnocchi.There will also be classic Italian recipes, including veal and chicken cacciatore, tiramisu and panna cotta. “Our favorite dishes are the authentic Neapolitan-style pizzas and the [...]