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Los Angeles — Call it the cone of shame. Radar dish. Elizabethan collar.

Jeff Boulton joined Pensacola’s West Florida Wheelmen Club four years ago because he was looking for an opportunity to get involved in group rides.

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs in 2013 released a study addressing suicides from 1999-2010 which reflected that roughly 22 veterans were committing suicide per day, or one every 65 minutes.  Thirty-one percent of these suicides were by veterans 49 and younger while 69 percent were by veterans age 50 and older. “I will say the new statistics – the number is even higher and that is really sad,” said Frank Dailey, a former Air Force Chief Master Sgt. from Navarre who works volunteering with struggling veterans.

Problems with tainted food don’t only affect children and adults; pets can be severely impacted also.

Despite officials’ concerns about safety, the Navarre Family Watersports complex won approval from the Santa Rosa County Zoning Board to expand operations within its existing property—moving closer to Santa Rosa Sound and putting boaters nearer to the facility’s helicopter pad.

The operators of the Navarre Beach Pier will pay Santa Rosa County its share of admission revenues on a daily basis through direct deposit to a credit card account, according to a new agreement.

Tallahassee, Fla. (AP) — When Florida state House Minority Leader Mark Pafford puts a 6 a.m. workout before his legislative meetings on his daily schedule, it’s a public record.

On Sunday evening March 13 at around 6 p.m., a 4 year old wandered away from the Simpson River fishing pier and into traffic in the westbound lanes of U.S. Highway 90.  James Nance of Pace was traveling in the outside westbound lane and the 2007 Ford Explorer he was driving struck the child’s right side.

A Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy, William Adams, was driving his marked patrol car east on Old Bagdad Highway on March 11 at around 10:15 p.m.  The Florida Highway Patrol says Adams failed to yield the right of way at the stop intersection of Old Bagdad Highway and Forsyth Road and entered the path of a Jeep Cherokee.  The front of the Jeep struck the passenger side of the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office patrol car.  

Florida is one step away from opening the door to free agency in high school athletics.