It’s no secret that members of the Southeastern Dog Hunters Association (SEDHA) are passionate about their dogs, which they train and use to track game. Recently the group also showed some love to less-fortunate canines.

Gulf Breeze has the goal of being “the most livable city in America” by the year 2020. City Council voted Aug. 4 to approve Comprehensive Plan Amendments that are designed to align it with the Master Plan, also known as the “Most Livable City Plan.”

Two Santa Rosa County teens are back in custody after they escaped July 23 from the Okaloosa Youth Academy in Crestview. According to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, 14-year-old Kurtis Lee Canning and 15-year-old Joseph Timothy Enfinger, both from Milton, are now charged with escape from a residential commitment facility, resisting an officer without violence and criminal mischief of over $1,000.

Gulf Breeze Police Chief Robert Randle admitted July 21 that he jinxed himself when he told a local reporter July 4 than not much happens in the city during the holiday. But July 4, 2014, was different. Randle said that due to the efforts of a local citizen and three police officers, a man wanted in connection to a murder in Alabama was apprehended and taken off the streets.