HURLBURT FIELD — The Hurlburt Field Chapter of the Air Force Association gave 24 Air Commandos of the 1st Special Operations Wing unsung hero awards during a Dec. 4 ceremony at the Soundside Club.
In one of the biggest advances against leukemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success by using gene therapy to transform patients’ blood cells into soldiers that seek and destroy cancer.
University of Florida professors are researching how to use pig kidneys as a framework for human kidney transplants, which could possible shorten the length of time kidney failure patients will have to wait for a new organ in the future.
A man formerly residing in Pace was booked into the Santa Rosa County Jail on Sunday for his connection to a string of several car burglaries that occurred last spring, according to a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.
A Navarre woman was arrested last Tuesday after she was found to be in possession of stolen medications, according to a Santa Rosa County Sherriff’s Office report.
Two arrests were made after officers discovered a methamphetamine lab in a residence on the 8300 block of Segura Street, according to a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.
Santa Rosa County Commissioners plan to narrow the list of proposed sites for the courthouse today. Six sites were submitting during the proposal process, and commissioners plan to move three properties forward for further consideration at today’s meeting.
Two Navarre Beach projects made the cut last week as Governor Rick Scott announced projects proposed in the third round of Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) funding. The early restoration dollars fund projects related to damages resulting from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
