A 33-year-old man was arrested after the vehicle he was driving struck a child who got out of the backseat of another car and darted across Gulf Boulevard. The accident happened about 7 p.m. Saturday on Navarre Beach.

Ryan Morgan of Fort Lauderdale was charged with driving without a valid license. According to a Florida Highway Patrol media release, Morgan was driving westbound when the 10-year-old boy got out of another vehicle and ran across the road. The Pace boy, who first responders said has autism, was critically injured but expected to recover, the release said. The road was dark and the shoulder was limited, the report said. Morgan stopped immediately after the crash.

A Navarre teen who turned 18 while in custody has been charged more than six months after an incident at a Pace fishing pier led to the death of her 16-year-old accomplice.

In a split second while on a mission in 2015, U.S. Air Force Capt. Matthew Roland made the last leadership decision he would he would ever make. Without hesitation, he chose to protect his team and give them the best shot at overcoming an insider attack in Afghanistan, sacrificing his life in the process.

The Santa Rosa Board of County Commissioners designated District 3 Commissioner James Calkins as its liaison to water protection civic groups that formed, in part, to oppose a now shelved proposal to allow more or expanded borrow pit mining in the 27,000-acre East Milton Area Wellfield Protection Overlay District.

Turnout was strong at the April 22 Strategic Planning open house at the Tiger Point Community Center last week, with the number of folks tripling that of two previous north
county locations.