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FORT WALTON BEACH — Northwest Florida should brace for potentially severe weather Saturday.According to the National Weather Service in Mobile, an organized line of showers and thunderstorms is expected to spread across the region Saturday morning through late Saturday night.Some of the storms could become severe, with damaging wind gusts over 60 miles per hour and possibly brief tornadoes.“It currently appears that the best potential for severe [...]

DEFUNIAK SPRINGS — When it comes to raising awareness for people living without electricity, CHELCO CEO Steve Rhodes took the task to new heights.In 2016, Rhodes, alongside his wife Tami and daughter Samantha, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise awareness for the millions of people living without power in the African continent and to raise funds for National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA). Last month, he was awarded the 2018 International Award for his work [...]

Trump reacted on Twitter early Friday, the day after the emergence of details from Comey's memoir, which says Trump is "untethered to truth."

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, said that images of victims of the purported attack were fakes staged with "Britain's direct involvement."

Libby was convicted of lying to investigators and obstruction of justice following the 2003 leak of the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame.

DeFUNIAK SPRINGS — Walton County is asking the community to help its 4-H youths by donating supplies for the children to distribute rescue packs to those in need.The Walton County 4-H and five other counties in the 4-H's district will gather April 21 at the Washington County Agricultural Center in Chipley for the 30th anniversary of Global Youth Services Day, according to a press release from the county. There, the youths will assemble as many rescue packs [...]

Her harrowing account of sexual molestation was remarkably similar to the one she gave at last year's trial

FORT WALTON BEACH — Raeleen McDaniel was the first Friday the 13th customer to line the sidewalk of U.S. Highway 98 in downtown Fort Walton Beach as she waited to take advantage of the special at Defiance Tattoo Company.McDaniel, who said she received her first tattoo of a microphone last Friday the 13th, prepared to get nine new tattoos before noon Friday."We got here at 6:40 this morning," McDaniel said. "I'm so pumped and excited. I'm getting trees, a mountain, a [...]

PONCE DE LEON — The Walton County Sheriff's Office has positively identified two bodies that were found after a house fire March 29.Raymond Leon Yancey, 61, and Rebecca Rushing-Barker, 55, were killed in the fire, according to the Sheriff's Office.Walton County Fire Rescue and sheriff’s deputies responded to a home on County Road 181-C in the early morning following a frantic 911 call from a relative. The home was engulfed in flames when [...]

Organizers decided to create a memorial near the entrance to the prom ballroom, at the Westin Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort