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This Men’s Health Month, the Florida Department of Health is encouraging men to take charge of their health. By making the daily choice to eat smarter and move more, men statewide can lower their risk of disease and improve life expectancy.

The Children’s Hospital at Sacred Heart has partnered with the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra (PSO) to bring music programs to the hospital’s sick and injured children and their visitors.

After nearly two years as the CEO and president of the Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce, Tony Alexander was terminated Tuesday morning in a vote by the board of directors.

Residents along Shipton Street and Seascape Lane could hardly believe what they saw Friday afternoon. On the backroads of Navarre, at approximately 4:30 p.m., witnesses saw an orange Jeep traveling east at a high rate of speed overturn in the middle of the street, stopping short of careening into a neighboring occupied house and backyard.

Darrell Watkins and his wife, Jean, were getting the family ready for church Sunday morning when the smoke alarm started going off.

The U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force captured an Alabama escapee June 4, when they pulled him over on the Bob Sikes Toll Bridge just before entering Pensacola Beach.

A 7-year-old Navarre girl died Friday night following injuries sustained in a car crash in Walton County.

Santa Rosa County Commissioners today are expected to approve the job posting in the search for a new county administrator.

Santa Rosa County District 2 Commissioner Bob Cole was scheduled June 5 to attend a mandatory hearing before County Judge Jose Giraud for a non-criminal Sunshine Law violation charge filed March 12 by State Attorney Bill Eddins. Cole faces a $500 fine.

For the third consecutive year, Santa Rosa County property tax revenues are expected to increase. During Tuesday’s pre-budget workshop, Budget Director Jayne Bell projected a 2.1 percent increase of just over $1 million – but don’t expect commissioners to lower ad valorem assessments.