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A combination of sunshine, warm temperatures and an interesting topic meant a much larger than expected crowd for an archaeology program and hike Saturday at the Naval Live Oaks Area at Gulf Islands National Seashore.

Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. — After more than a year of modification maintenance, the newly created AC-130J Ghostrider took to the skies for the first time as a gunship Jan. 31.

Air Force personnel at Hurlburt Field conducted training Thursday based on a simulated chemical weapons attack against a base outside the U.S. Staff Sgt. David Norris said the CBRN– Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear – training is for airmen and civilians that may be deployed to international locations where chemical weapons could be used against them. The training simulated for airmen what they should do before, during and after a chemical weapons attack.

Every year, heart disease accounts for one in every four deaths in the United States. That is about 600,000 people who die from the disease each year.

Among the elderly, falls are the leading cause of both fatal and nonfatal injuries. Tyler Bennett, critical care paramedic and operations supervisor for Lifeguard Ambulance Service, hopes to change that statistic, at least in Santa Rosa County.

Several hundred high school and middle school students from across the area, including Navarre High School, heard how faith and football mix at a special breakfast Friday at the Emerald Coast Conference Center in Fort Walton Beach. The All Sports Association hosts the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) breakfast on the morning of the group’s annual banquet.

Members of the Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office SWAT team assisted other deputies as they attempted to serve several active warrants on a man residing at the 1200 block of Sanibel Lane in Gulf Breeze Tuesday.

A man broke into a Milton residence with a sledgehammer Saturday and threatened two of his neighbors, according to a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.

Holley-Navarre Fire Commissioner Shannon Stone formally resigned from his seat Tuesday.

The two county-submitted Navarre Beach projects which made the cut into the third round of Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) early restoration funding, resulting from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, are being opposed by bird conservationists, including local and state chapters of the Audubon Society.