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Paula Lamont strikes up a conversation with a couple who are on vacation in Florida while inside the visitor’s center at Fort Pickens Friday morning.

Hurlburt Field, Fla. — The 11th Intelligence Squadron was re-designated to the 11th Special Operations Intelligence Squadron during a ceremony here Aug. 1.

Hurlburt Field, Fla., — — The 1st Special Operations Wing is the most heavily deployed wing in the Air Force, which can cause many stressors in Airmen’s lives and their relationships with their significant others.

Devin Rising was in third grade when he learned apnea was the reason he was struggling to sleep at night.

The State Attorney’s Office announced that Amber Nicole Cooley, 24, and Kyle Joseph Cooley, 27, were sentenced on Aug. 11 and 12 to 10 years in state prison for charges that arose when a 3- year-old child ingested ingredients used by the couple to manufacture methamphetamine in their home.  The 10-year sentence is a minimum mandatory sentence, requiring that the couple serve the entire sentence without receiving gain time.

James Campbell is used to turning away would-be beer buyers on Sunday mornings at the Exxon station he manages in the City of Gulf Breeze. But soon he won’t have to.

Doug Broxson has been phoning members of the Holley-Navarre Water System board to express concerns over their plan to endorse a candidate for the Northwest Florida Senate seat he is seeking.

Acrimony in the Northwest Florida Senate race has boiled over into an allegation that candidate Doug Broxson has violated state elections law.

Susan Teal of the Gulf Islands National Seashore confirms that both a car and a body were recovered from the Gulf Islands National Seashore some time on Friday evening, Aug. 12.  Teal says the Seashore is conducting an investigation in conjunction with the Walton and Santa Rosa County sheriff’s offices. 

Enthusiasm for the two proposed half-penny sales-tax measures is much higher on the north end of Santa Rosa County than in Navarre or Gulf Breeze.