A new report from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention shows that new cases of diabetes fell by nearly 20 percent between 2008 and 2014. It is the first prolonged decline in more than 25 years. In and of itself, diabetes is an illness that requires constant management, and despite best efforts, an unfortunate derivative of diabetes can be vision loss.
Santa Rosa County officials now concede that there was no effort to negotiate before agreeing to pay Tough Mudder Inc. a $110,000 subsidy in return for staging its military-style endurance event near Milton next April.
A Mary Esther man is facing multiple charges after posting a Craigslist ad to sell a metal storage building on Lakewood Drive that he didn’t actually own.
On Wednesday, Dec. 2 Sean Philip Sadler, 28 of Navarre was airlifted to Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola after being struck by a Ford Explorer while he was rollerblading on Edgewood Drive.
In a harrowing story of sexual assault, Christopher Calamis was arrested Dec. 2 on those charges and more, including felony battery and false imprisonment for an incident that occurred in Fort Walton Beach.
A Navarre man with a 10-year criminal history was arrested for burglary after DNA left at the scene led Okaloosa County deputies to him. Alonzo Borum of Chaparral Street in Navarre is accused of committing a burglary at a Fort Walton Beach residence on Aug. 26, 2014, more than a year ago.
Financial woes enveloping the Navarre Beach Pier manager, Coastal Concessions, are prompting Santa Rosa County officials to demand two months of past-due admission fees by Dec. 11 amid questions about whether the company’s previous payments were properly used.
