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New York — Labrador retrievers still reign supreme after a quarter century as America’s most prevalent purebred dog. But French bulldogs are riding their je ne sais quoi toward new heights, and some lesser-known breeds are climbing the popularity ladder, according to American Kennel Club rankings released Monday. Here’s a look at how breeds stack up:

Matt Cushing still remembers the phone call in which he was asked to assist in the search for the Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the Santa Rosa Sound on a dreary night in early March.

The Western Gate Chapter of the Florida Trail Association has several activities planned for March.

Trail work will be done on the Florida Trail March 3, 17, 24 and 31. Anyone interested in helping can meet at Blackwater River State Park at 8 a.m. For more information, call Ed Williamson at 850-474-5359.

Eglin Air Force Base — As the F-35A Lightning II prepares to fly north in 2020, the Vermont Air National Guard sent an Airman here to become the first National Guardsman to graduate from the Joint Strike Fighter program’s Intelligence Formal Training Unit.

Hurlburt Field, Fla. — Airman 1st Class Jordan Artis, a vehicle management analysis journeyman from the 1st Special Operations Logistics Readiness Squadron, turned his childhood of playing with cars, into a career when he joined the Air Force in 2013. 

If you were told you’ve been doing something wrong your whole life and that it’s damaging your health, would you stress out? What if the thing you’ve been doing wrong is stress itself?

If teenage boys or men in your household are clamoring for protein, you needn’t rush to the meat counter.

Twenty years ago this week the Holley-Navarre Water System building burned including the financial records that were inside. There was an ensuing investigation by the Florida State Fire Marshal, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Internal Revenue Service. Two main suspects were named, but never charged because of the lack of concrete evidence. The statute of limitations has run out on this unsolved crime.

On Sunday, Feb. 21 a woman was robbed in the Publix parking lot in Navarre around 9:15 p.m. after buying the man cigarettes.  William Robbie Temples of the 8100 block of Fourth Street was arrested and charged with battery and robbery.

On Wednesday, Feb. 17, Jay Ellis Moore, 19, of Deer Lane in Navarre was arrested for stalking by willfully and repeatedly following and harassing two women while they were driving.  A police-assist call came through dispatch in which two women said they were being followed by a blue car.