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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 — 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 [...]

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.

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.

FORT WALTON BEACH — Students at Silver Sands School presented a check to the Air Force Enlisted Village on Thursday after selling handmade notepads and gift tags to raise funds for their local community.Scott Delveau, director of development for the Enlisted Village, and Magnolia Grill owner Tom Rice accepted the check from a room full of excited students."It's not about the number of dollars they give us," Rice said. "It's a gift that comes from the heart. They're [...]

"We're not skipping lunch because it's fun," said Arrianna Zellner, one of the students who organized the protest. "We don't want to go hungry. We're doing this for them."

Company will tighten sales rules at its Fred Meyer stores