Ken Haddad of the American Sports Fishing Association has been instrumental in helping the Gulf Angler Focus Group push for more recreational red snapper fishing opportunities in federal waters.
Hurlburt Field — One Air Commando from the 901st Special Operations Maintenance Squadron has decided to continue his Air Force career as a remotely piloted aircraft sensor operator.
Hurlburt Field — Fifteen years after a 17-hour battle on an Afghan mountaintop, a pararescueman’s extraordinary heroism is recognized with an Air Force Cross, following a service wide review of medals awarded since 9/11.
A group of women in Navarre are gearing up for a new 5K race set for April 1. They meet twice a week together at the path on Navarre Beach and also run on their own twice a week, staying accountable through a Facebook group. The plan started with 15 minutes of alternating between jogging and walking and will work the group all the way up, over 12 weeks, to accomplishing a 5 mile run.
Scott Rayner and Stephanie Maddox have long presented a public image as shoulder-to-shoulder allies in managing the Navarre Beach Pier through everything from financial woes to cleaning up vandalized restrooms.
Questions are being raised about the background checking practices of an outside vendor in the hiring of the 1,000 or so substitute teachers needed weekly to plug absences in the Santa Rosa School District.
In a presidential memorandum released Jan. 23, President Trump ordered a freeze on the hiring of Federal civilian employees. The order said no vacant positions existing at noon Jan. 22 may be filled and no new positions could be created, except in limited circumstances. The memo clearly excluded all military personnel and it went further to exempt any positions that are deemed necessary to meet national security or public safety responsibilities.
Triple homicide suspect William “Billy” Boyette, Jr. died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Tuesday evening after officers surrounded him in a West Point, Georgia motel room said Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan.
