The American Cancer Society hosted the first Florida Colorectal Cancer Leadership Summit on March 26. The event brought together colorectal cancer medical experts and more than 100 health care system leaders from around the state to address the state of colorectal cancer and implement strategies for increasing screenings rates to 80 percent by 2018. Summit participants pledged their support to increase colorectal screening rates by ceremonially signing a special banner during the event.
Florida veterans were forced to wait at least 30 days for nearly 93,000 medical appointments at VA medical facilities from September through February, and half of those delays were found at just seven sites in north Florida and the Panhandle, according to government data reviewed by The Associated Press.
Rep. Doug Broxson (R-Gulf Breeze) will host several free public workshops to teach residents necessary steps to protect their greatest investment from costly Formosan termite damage.
Santa Rosa County Commission Chairman Don Salter Monday said he was ready to raise local gas taxes to fund road improvements. But his fellow commissioners don’t support an increase at this time.
Longtime Santa Rosa County Administrator Hunter Walker announced plans to retire at the end of the year, and commissioners will soon begin the search to replace him.
Jacqueline Danielle Hicks, 29, of the 8100 block of White Sands Boulevard, was arrested March 28 on third-degree felony charges of drug equipment possession and possession of a controlled substance without a prescription after police stopped a vehicle at the east corner of Harvest Village Court. Hicks was a passenger.
