With 44 employees and an annual budget that includes more than $6 million in federal funds, Career Source Escarosa ranks last among Florida’s 24 local employment agencies as measured by the Department of Economic Opportunity’s metrics.

From hand-written signs nailed to telephone poles in the City of Gulf Breeze to a front-page countywide newspaper advertisement, the pitches by would-be buyers of houses for cash and “as is” are hard to miss lately.

Retail shops, a movie theater, dining spots and more are planned for a new development in Navarre, but nothing is set in stone just yet.

Navarre residents can provide their vision for future growth and give input on the issues, challenges and opportunities facing District 4 at a public open house on Tues., Feb. 20, from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Navarre High School cafeteria, 8600 High School Blvd. in Navarre.

In a strange turn of events, Santa Rosa County had to ask Santa Rosa County for a bigger sign.

After relations went sour with the TV show “Live PD,” Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s deputies will be in the lime light and in television viewers’ living rooms once again.

After an eight-day jury trial, Larry L. Masino, 67, of Gulf Breeze and Dixie L. Masino, 65, of Pensacola, were convicted late Monday in the U.S. District Court in Pensacola of wire fraud conspiracy, operating an illegal gambling business and money laundering conspiracy.

In the evening hours of Jan. 12, 1993, Susan Morris, 21, was walking to her car in a parking lot at the back of the University of West Florida campus.

The two-hour lesson in diplomacy that Sheriff Bob Johnson received from colleagues in other counties soon after his 2016 election is proving to be worth millions of dollars a year to his budget.