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A security camera inside a Milton home was instrumental in putting three men into the Santa Rosa County jail early Monday morning, according to Milton Police.

Drugs have long been a problem in schools, but the challenges in fighting the problem are much different than they were 20 or 30 years ago.

Several agencies came together to find the men who held up a Milton CVS at gunpoint, tied up the employees and took prescription drugs from the business in 2014. It was suspected the same men were responsible in four Escambia County robbery cases, two of which were at the same CVS Pharmacy on 9th Avenue, with the same method of operation, in the same year.

A Navarre man found himself staring down the barrel of a 12 gage shotgun after he tried to steal another man’s truck, according to a Santa Rosa Sheriff’s deputy.

If Santa Rosa officials accept the 2,718-acre parcel in Pace known as Jubilee as a donation, the county could be dragged into pending litigation over its ownership.

A routine traffic stop for speeding on Interstate 10 led to the seizure of $1 million worth of crystal methamphetamine and cocaine by officers in 2014. A similar story occurred in July of this year on that same interstate with $22,000 in methamphetamine seized.

The Navarre Beach Fire Department, the community at large and folks as far away as Hawaii have pooled their resources to support a local firefighter and his family as he battles a serious viral brain infection that left him hospitalized for several days.

Google drug busts on Interstate 10 and countless stories appear detailing the major busts made along a highway considered one of the nation’s prime drug trafficking corridors.

In Santa Rosa County, the flavor of the month is crystal methamphetamine.

After spending years saving the lives of others – and just days after giving birth to her second daughter – a Navarre nurse ended up fighting for her life at the same hospital where she works.