News Archive

Charlottesville, Va. (AP) — William Cohen beeped his car horn, making those nearest jump and then laugh. Getting the all-clear from a nearby Albemarle County police officer, the senior driver took off for the parking lot exit in his black SUV.

Montpelier, Vt. (AP) — A fungus has been identified as the cause of a mysterious ailment that has been infecting some snake species in the eastern United States, threatening some isolated snake populations such as the timber rattlesnakes found in western Vermont.

The fall turkey hunting season is underway and little has changed from last year.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Officer David Brady received the agency’s Purple Heart and Award of Valor for his actions in the line of duty at an FWC meeting Nov. 18 in Panama City Beach.

Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. — An explosive ordnance disposal airman here was awarded the 2015 Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs Grateful Nation Award in Washington, D.C., Nov. 16.

Hurlburt Field, Fla — Col. Ted Corallo, Air Force Special Operations Command chief of staff, held his retirement ceremony at the Soundside Club on Hurlburt Field, Fla., Nov. 20, 2015. He graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1989 and went on to undergraduate pilot training at Columbus Air Force Base, Miss. In his career, Corallo piloted 10 different aircraft platforms including the Cessna T-37, MC-130H Combat Talon II, and the Osprey and logged more than 3,600 flying hours. Most recently he served as the AFSOC chief of staff for the last 18 months.

Approximately one in 10  adult Americans suffer from Restless Legs Syndrome, also known as Willis-Ekbom Disease; and almost 1 million school-age children  have childhood RLS, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

At the Nov. 12 Santa Rosa Board of Commissioners meeting held at the Tiger Point Community Center, Santa Rosa Tax Collector Stan Colie Nichols returned $370,081 in unspent funds back to the county.

On Nov. 16 two deputies stopped to help a truck disabled in the front of Circle K on Navarre Parkway.  But according to an arrest report, that’s when the truck owner’s luck went from bad to worse.

The Holley-Navarre Water System members’ attempt at the Oct. 27 board meeting to enhance the proxy system for voting was shot down by its attorney Michael Tidwell at a subsequent Nov. 17 water board meeting.