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The weekly report by the Florida Department of Health shows Santa Rosa County COVID-19 cases dropping from over 2,000 the past two weeks to 1,437

UPDATED 1:45 p.m. The individual is at Fort Walton Beach Medical Center in stable condition.

ORIGINAL RELEASE: At approximately 9:45 a.m. an explosion occurred at the Navy School Explosive Ordnance Disposal C-52 North range.

Eglin and Okaloosa County emergency crews responded to the incident. An individual was airlifted to a medical facility. An investigation into the circumstances surrounding the mishap is underway. More information will be released as it becomes available.

Drivers will encounter traffic disruptions on the following state roads in Santa Rosa county as crews perform construction and maintenance activities.

The Santa Rosa millage rate, also known as property taxes, will remain the same for at least the twelfth consecutive year.

Fourteen minutes before 9 a.m. on the morning of Sept. 11 in New York City, American Airlines Flight 11 out of Boston slams into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

Here in Florida, Don Arias is at Tyndall Air Force Base, where he works as the Chief of Public Affairs for First Air Force and Continental U.S. NORAD Region. He catches the footage of the attack on the television in his office.

On Aug. 31, Gulf Power had a transformer struck by lightning causing a fire that ended up breaking off the top of the transformer pole. The HNWS Waste Water Treatment Plant lost power, but the crew was able to maintain operations and prevent sanitary sewer overflows. All affected systems were restored, which kept HNWS members’ services in continuous working operation.

A Navarre couple faces multiple felony charges after they were discovered passed out in a car with a 6-month-old baby unrestrained in the back seat.

Alexis Freeman, who is 22, and Randy Michael Smith, who is 23, were found in a parking lot on Page Bacon Road in Mary Esther about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday.

A local woman is in custody after allegedly shooting her husband to death while he was on the phone with emergency dispatchers. Bree Kuhn-Turner, 34, was taken into custody Wednesday night by the Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office.

A request for conditional use to allow an 81-acre private air strip to be built within a rural residential agriculture zoning district in Jay has been submitted by Damon Griswold.

Lt. General Brad Webb was preparing for a critical mission in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that could be summed up in two words.