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GULF ISLANDS WEATHER PREPARATION
Gulf Islands National Seashore officials will begin shutdown procedures today as the area braces for severe weather over the Memorial Day weekend. Closure of the Fort Pickens, Santa Rosa and Perdido K...
May 25, 2018
FORT WALTON BEACH SAND BAGS
With the approach of bad weather residents of Fort Walton Beach will be able to fill their own sand bags starting at 11am today. Sand bags will be available Fort Walton Beach City Maintenance Yard at ...
May 25, 2018
PC BEACH SEXUAL BATTERY ARRESTS
The Panama City Beach Police Department says two 18-year-old Louisiana men have been arrested for a rape that happened outside a Panama City Beach gas station on Tuesday. Thaylon Simoneaux and Davon W...
May 25, 2018
WEEKEND FLOODING THREAT
The National Weather Service says coastal counties from Mississippi to Florida are under an extreme threat of flooding as a tropical disturbance is predicted to move over the Gulf Coast this weekend. ...
May 24, 2018
ECUA INVESTIGATION
The Pensacola News Journal is reporting the state attorney’s office is investigating whether the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority paid more than 1-million dollars in legal fees to the Lewis Bea...
May 24, 2018
DESTIN BARRICADED GUNMAN
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Special Response Team and Crisis Negotiations Unit responded to a report of a barricaded gunman in a Destin Hotel yesterday. Deputies said Nicholas Sachse fr...
May 24, 2018
E-CIGARETTE SMOKING
Do electronic cigarettes help people quit smoking? Maybe not. A study by the University of Pennsylvania and published by the New England Journal of Medicine shows that electronic cigarettes worked no ...
May 24, 2018
CORRECTIONS OFFICER ARRESTED
The Florida Department of Corrections says a 26-year old corrections officer has been arrested for stealing drugs from an evidence locker at the Century Correctional Institution Work Camp. Joshua Harr...
May 22, 2018
CIVICCON 5-22-18
The latest CivicCon, a joint project of the News Journal and the Studer Community Institute, will focus on the opioid crisis. Doctor Marvin Seppala, a nationally recognized expert on addiction and pha...
May 22, 2018
TROPICAL WEATHER SYSTEM
The National Hurricane Center has issued a special tropical weather outlook for a system that has the potential to develop into a named storm later this week. A low-pressure area currently in the Cari...
May 22, 2018
