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HURLBURT FIELD – Air Commandos set a new record for participation in the Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day last Friday at Hurlburt Field. 

White-Wilson Medical Center formally announced plans to open a Navarre Clinic today. The new clinic is expected to be open by the end of the year.

JACKSONVILLE — Florida Blue is dropping 300,000 customers whose policies the health insurer says aren’t sufficiently comprehensive under the health care overhaul.

For the children living in the poverty-stricken Sicuani District in Peru, medical treatment for congenital abnormalities such as webbed feet and extra fingers and even injuries such as broken bones and burns can go untreated for months, or even years.

A woman driving a Toyota Sienna van ran into the back of a school bus on Monday afternoon at the traffic light at Hwy 98 and Navarre School Road.

A large brush fire that started in a pile of dead timber on the north shore of the sound near Ramble Bay Lane broke out on Saturday, but was contained before spreading.

The driver of a Ford F-150 involved in a one-car rollover on Saturday evening walked away without a scratch, according to Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies.

A one-car rollover in Midway on Hwy 98 near Mohawk Trail last Thursday afternoon sent a Destin man to the hospital with critical injuries.

The race to fill the Santa Rosa County Commission District 4 seat and to represent the greater Navarre area is getting crowded.  A fourth candidate, Andrea McDermott, has pre-filed to run for the position presently held by Commissioner Jim Melvin, who must face off against District 2 Commissioner Bob Cole next year due to redistricting after the 2010 census.

Police are looking for a vehicle involved in a hit-and-run accident that occurred in Gulf Breeze on October 24.