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Four Tallahasseeans arrested in Walton County for underage drinking

... among the first arrested on March 3. The Walton County Sheriff's Office is reminding Spring Break visitors that they have zero tolerance for underage drinking. The area regularly attracts Spring Break visitors for their many beaches to include Santa Rosa Beach, Rosemary Beach, and Miramar Beach. Read More





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Warming waters may be shifting blacktip shark migrations

DAYTONA BEACH — A researcher at Florida Atlantic University who studies shark migration off Florida’s east coast suspects thousands of blacktip sharks aren’t migrating as far south in the winter as they used to because of warming water temperatures along the coast.That could spell more sharks off Central Florida, said Stephen Kajiura, a researcher and professor in the University's department of biological sciences and director of its elasmobranch research [...]
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If Landlord says it’s spring, it’s spring (PHOTOS)

Calendars apparently do not mean much to "Landlord" the gopher tortoise.While spring doesn’t officially begin until March 20, the roughly 11.5-pound tortoise recently decided to stir from his long slumber and crawl out from his igloo-shaped enclosure inside the Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge.Maybe he was just hungry. Or perhaps he actually sensed that it was getting warmer outside. [...]
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‘I thought about killing you when you pulled me over’

DEFUNIAK SPRINGS — A bag of large knives was found within arm’s reach of a man who said he thought about killing the sheriff's deputy who pulled him over.According to a press release from the Walton County Sheriff's Office, on March 9 a deputy on routine patrol observed a camouflage Jeep traveling eastbound on U.S. Highway 90 near Gene Hurley Road. The tag displayed on the Jeep turned out to be registered to a 2007 Blue Hyundai Sonata.The deputy pulled the [...]
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