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Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP) — They go on camp outs. Earn merit badges. And sniff out good deeds.

Heavy rain that drenched most of the area last week flooded two roads in the Blackwater River State Park in Holt.

Hurlburt Field, Fla. — The 1st Special Operations Force Support Squadron new temporary lodging facility (TLF) is now open after a ribbon cutting ceremony Dec. 18, 2015.
Col. Sean Farrell, commander of the 1st Special Operations Wing, hosted the event for airmen and their families.

Hurlburt Field, Fla., — As the sun sets over the flight line and most units have gone home for the night, maintenance airmen are attending roll call and issued their tools before making their way out to aircraft to begin their shift. 

Late-night dinners; skipped breakfasts; hand in the candy jar. Maybe you gave your healthful habits a vacation. That’s pretty typical behavior this time of the year, and now your diet is suffering from a holiday hangover.

Early risers have a more positive outlook on life and are more likely to succeed in their careers because they tend to be more proactive, university studies have found. However, night owls may be more alert 10 hours after awakening, compared to early birds, whose energy fades.

The cheapest price isn’t the best deal on the $15 million dredging project to renourish Navarre Beach this spring, area tourism leaders assert.

The owners of condominium units at the Sugar Dunes complex in Navarre Beach have hired an attorney to investigate why the lease fees they have been paying for years aren’t being been received by Santa Rosa County officials.

The Florida Department of Transportation is changing the speed limit on a small stretch of State Road 87 beginning at U.S. Highway 98 to just north of Montalban Street in Navarre.  The change will be from the current 45 mph to 40 mph beginning Jan. 7.

Every four hours members the Navarre Beach Fire Department patrolled the beach from the military property westward to Opal Beach in hope of recovering the body of swimmer Christopher Beal who went missing on Tuesday, Dec. 29.  Danny Fureigh of NBFD says that it was the roughest and highest surf Navarre Beach has had in a while when Beal was lost.