The number of active duty military or their dependents registered to vote in Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Escambia counties exceeds 50,000, which is more than 12 percent of all registered voters in the three counties.
A man convicted in 1989 of sexual battery, robbery with a weapon and attempted murder of a UWF student has been sentenced to life in prison for violation of probation.
The Florida Highway Patrol reported March 25 that 27-year-old Duloris Marie Gonzalez, a passenger in a vehicle driven by 28-year-old Sean Ryan Gallagher, died from injuries she sustained in an early morning crash on Highway 98 just east of the Santa-Rosa Okaloosa County line.
Only three communities have incorporated in Florida since 2005 and the largest one based on population is Cutler Bay. The city of approximately 42,000 people is located in Miami-Dade County.
After a two-day trial that included testimony from victims and three psychologists, a Santa Rosa County jury determined 43-year-old Mark Preston Bohner to be a sexually violent predator under Florida’s Jimmy Ryce Law.
Family members anxiously watched the skies and listened March 24 and in an instant the Navy’s Blue Angels made a pass over the runway at NAS Pensacola. The team had spent the last eight weeks training at Naval Air Facility El Centro, Calif. and was now back home.
Another former Florida state legislator has thrown property he owns into consideration as a future courthouse site. Former senator Charlie Clary joins former representative Cotton Byrom in offering the county an East Milton land deal.
Los Angeles (AP) — Dogs and cats have become part of the American family inner circle over the last 20 years, sleeping in their own beds or yours, eating food bought specially to help their digestive tracts, drinking purified water and cuddling up in chairs on heated pads made to fend off arthritis.
Spring marks horseshoe crabs’ mating season, and biologists from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Committee (FWC) want the public’s help identifying spawning sites.
About 30 people, most of them representing local governments and organizations that participate in water monitoring data collection, attended a Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) meeting March 13 in Pensacola to provide input and learn about the department’s water quality assessment and restoration priorities for the next two years.
