The shortage of land available to expand recreational facilities in Santa Rosa County is prompting commissioners to ask the Navy to let it use part of a vacant 300-acre parcel in a section of Whiting Field.
On the eve of Good Friday, nearly seven weeks after he went missing, Senior Airman Keifer Huhman’s body has been recovered along the banks of the C&D Canal. While questions continue to surround his death, his family is thankful to have his body put to rest.
As soon as Choctaw and Fort Walton Beach were announced as the second- and third-place teams, respectively in the District 2-2A boys weightlifting meet Friday afternoon, the Navarre Raiders knew what was coming next.
One bad inning proved to be a deciding factor in Navarre’s softball game against Pine Forest March 16.
The Raiders gave up five runs in the opening inning and were unable to recover in a 5-2 loss to the Eagles, their two-game win streak ending in the process.
As he sits outside on a bench at Navarre High School on a mild spring afternoon, Nick Brahms reflects on how crazy the last month or so has been in terms of the number of football scholarship offers that have come rolling in.
Back in 2004 I met a crusty, disheveled man in our memory disorder clinic (West Florida Hospital Memory Disorder Clinic in Pensacola). His wife had called our clinic and asked for help dealing with his bizarre behavior. She told me about him locking her out of the bedroom and telling her to leave before his wife came home. He wouldn’t let her help him bathe or dress. She needed a wheelchair to get around. He drove and she navigated their car. She told me how he wanted to talk nonsense. “He does not know who I am and tells me to get out of our own home,” she said. His wife could not understand how that man had forgotten who she was. After all, they had been married 43 years.
Elkins, W.Va. (AP) — An Elkins animal shelter is collaborating with businesses in the region to provide temporary homes for resident cats, with hopes to increase adoption rates in the county.
No plans are in place yet to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the reefing of the USS Oriskany in Pensacola, but there is no question the world’s largest artificial reef site has been a popular location for divers to explore in the last decade.
Investigator James O’Keefe’s video on veteran suicides for Project Veritas asks why an increasing number of military graveyards are being filled with people who died at their own hands rather than in combat. He asserts that VA is unable to treat the underlying causes of veterans’ emotional problems, depending on drug therapies which can mask the problems or have serious side effects that make matters worse.
It pays for consumers to read food labels but that is now a murkier quest because the concern about chicken now extends to beef and pork originating from other countries. Assertive consumers’ efforts to determine where their food comes from was further complicated recently when the president signed the Omnibus Bill in December 2015 which rescinds Country Origin Labeling (COOL) requirements for beef and pork products.
