For many tourists, Florida means sunshine, beaches and well-known Central Florida theme parks, but a new website launched last week is encouraging visitors to take another look at the state and “Discover Florida Wild.”
Senior Airman Timothy J. Wright from Pensacola was fatally injured in a Humvee accident July 17 during a unit readiness training exercise at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
The Air Force has announced a personnel reduction plan that amounts to 3,500 jobs being cut over the next five years. The good news locally is that only 22 positions are expected to be lost at Hurlburt Field. Under the plan, only one facility, Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, is projected to lose fewer positions than Hurlburt.
Firefighters at Naval Air Station Whiting Field recently witnessed the resiliency of children first hand when two, young kids they helped treat following a multiple car accident near Allentown in early June came by for a visit.
Navarre and the surrounding area make for a beautiful place to run and exercise outdoors. Dozens of races mark the calendar throughout the year, including the McGuire’s 5K that had more than 9,000 runners this year. Local races like the Sunset Stampede and Flag Day 5k at St. Sylvester mark the end of the spring racing season as temperatures and humidity begin to climb.
Miami (AP) — The nation’s No. 2 cigarette maker is vowing to fight a jury verdict of $23.6 billion in punitive damages in a lawsuit filed in Pensacola by the widow of a longtime smoker who died of lung cancer.
Health officials are reporting that for the first time, U.S. mosquitoes are spreading a virus that has been tearing through the Caribbean. The reports however are not prompting any changes to Santa Rosa County’s mosquito control efforts.
Pete Della Ratta, Holley-Navarre Middle School Dean of Students, and five students from Florida joined hundreds of students and advisors from across the nation who traveled to Dallas July 14-17 to participate in the NFL’s Fuel up to Play 60 Summit.
Commissioners are pressed for time. They only have about five weeks left to decide which potential future courthouse site or sites to present to voters on the Nov. 4 general election ballot. Voters will also be asked if they support a one-cent local sales tax increase over a four-year period to fund the proposed new judicial facility.
There is a wide gap between some local candidates in terms of fundraising success this year. In one race there is greater than a $20,000 difference. With the primary election roughly one month away, most of the funds raised will be spent quickly.
