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July is Military Consumer Protection Month, and Commissioner Adam H. Putnam is providing tips for Florida’s 1.6 million veterans and 65,000 active-duty military members to protect themselves against fraud. Military Consumer Protection Month is a national effort to raise awareness about common scams and how active-duty military, veterans and their families can avoid them.

Hurlburt Field, Fla. — Air Force Special Operations Command has released the results of an accident investigation that examined what caused the death of two Air Force special tactics airmen during a Military Free Fall training incident on Aug. 3, 2015, near Hurlburt Field, Fla.

Hurlburt Field, Fla. — For the third time since its activation in 2012, the 24th Special Operations Wing welcomed a new commander during an assumption of command ceremony here July 14. Lt. Gen. Brad Heithold, commander of Air Force Special Operations Command presided over the ceremony in which Col. Michael Martin assumed command of the sole Special Tactics wing in the Air Force.

After three years, 20-year-old William Brandon Aydelott may finally stand trial for the brutal Christmas Eve murder of his mother Sharron Aydelott.

Sensing voter resistance to a new county courthouse in Milton, the business community group that supports an additional Santa Rosa sales-tax plans to promote only the Aug. 30 ballot measure about paying for other infrastructure.

The occasionally wobbly agreement to run the Navarre Beach Pier that Coastal Concessions has with Santa Rosa County has been extended by commissioners through 2017.

A Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office patrol car was involved in a fender bender at approximately 3 a.m. Wednesday morning on Highway 87.

Agents with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement today arrested Nathan Anthony Christensen, 20, of 1255 Bayview Lane in Gulf Breeze on 10 counts of possession of child pornography.   

After several weeks of insisting that Santa Rosa County commissioners amend the lease on 5.7 acres in Navarre Beach Marina Park so he can build condominiums, developer Victor Deal is researching the market for a dry-storage marina there instead.

Crown Point, Ind. (AP) — “I don’t think there’s a day I get up that I don’t think about something going wrong.”