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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Imagine the ideal designer dog. It would be smart, healthy and hypoallergenic. It would have the yap bred out and longevity bred in. And, most important, it would never lose its puppy face.

Proposed amendments to deer regulations could change the way local hunters harvest deer next season.

HURLBURT FIELD, Fla.– — Hurlburt Field officials have allowed use of the Kerwood Gate for outbound traffic beginning Monday, Nov. 25.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — It starts out innocently enough.

Hate them or love them, the ducks that live in the ponds at the HBTS Sunrise Drive entrance could possibly face euthanasia if they continue to be a nuisance to residents.

Santa Rosa County Commissioners received seven proposals in their redo of the Navarre Beach Fishing Pier management bid. Pasco Gibson, Jr., and Yolanda Wells initially won a contract, set to start at the end of the current lease, which expires Dec. 31. However, three commissioners decided to revisit the initial proposal selection, prompting a lawsuit filed by Gibson and Wells to stop a revote. Ultimately the board instead rebid the contract to remedy the suit and also revised a proposal scoring method the county had used for more than two decades.

Santa Rosa County has received six proposals from land owners offering their property for sale as the site of the new courthouse. Commissioners are expected to review those bids at a special meeting Dec. 3. However, voters will likely decide whether or not to fund a proposed judicial facility next year when a local option sales tax referendum is expected to be placed on the ballot.

A Gulf Breeze man was arrested for grand theft after nearly overdosing on pills he stole from a home on Government Drive in Gulf Breeze.

A Gulf Breeze man was arrested after he reportedly broke into a home on Monopoly Court and threatened another man with a kitchen knife because he thought the man was having an affair with his wife.

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office was able to help a Fort Walton Beach photographer reclaim most of the $43,000 worth of equipment stolen from him in an Oct. 23 incident.