Crestview Police say a homeless man almost blew up a Crestview church yesterday morning. Responding officers said 32-year-old Christopher Stanton, broke into the First Presbyterian Church of Crestview, took several bags of chips, used the stove to light a cigarette, and then went to sleep in an upstairs Sunday school room with his dog. But…… MORE
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COMPLAINT AGAINST MIDWIFE DISMISSED
An Administrative Law Judge has recommended that a complaint against a Niceville midwife, filed in March following the death of a baby, be dismissed. Judge E. Gary Early’s ruling said he found no clear and convincing evidence to uphold any of three allegations lodged against Cynthia Denbow in a Department of Health Administrative complaint. The…… MORE
FLORIDA SCHOOL PANIC ALARM BILL
A bill filed in the Florida legislature by a South Florida Senator would require that silent panic alarms be installed to link public-school buildings to local law-enforcement agencies. Senate Bill 174 – called Alyssa’s Law,” after Alyssa Alhadeff, a 14-year-old student who was one of the 17 people killed in the February mass shooting at…… MORE
KEEP THE WREATH GREEN
The sixth red bulb has been lit on the “Keep the Wreath Green” fire safety wreath. Escambia Fire-Rescue said firefighters responded to a house fire Christmas night in the 900 block of Rentz Avenue in Warrington around 11;30PM. An adult male was transported to Sacred Heart Hospital as a trauma alert. The fire caused major damage throughout…… MORE
NAVY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION LOANS
Navy Federal Credit Union is offering a one-time loan to help those impacted by the government shutdown. It is available for eligible customers with direct deposit accounts such as federal government employees and active-duty servicemembers of the Coast Guard whose pay is disrupted by the shutdown. Registration will be open until three days after the…… MORE
MURDER CHARGE DROPPED
A murder charge against a teenager accused of fatally shooting a man in a parking lot last year has been dismissed because he was defending himself. 16-year-old Tyree Maddox, pleaded no contest to a drug trafficking charge, but had also had been charged with second-degree murder after gunfire erupted March 19, 2017, in the parking…… MORE
JACKSON COUNTY TRAFFIC FATALITY
The Florida Highway Patrol says a 7-year-old girl from Tallahassee was killed Sunday in a traffic crash on Interstate 10 in Jackson County after the car she was traveling in rear-ended a mini-van. Troopers say 34-year-old Heather Foster, also of Tallahassee, was eastbound on I-10 at about 7:50 p.m. when she collided with a vehicle…… MORE
MEDICAL MARIJUANA COURT RULING
Florida Department of Health attorneys have asked the First District Court of Appeals to overturn a circuit judge’s ruling concerning the licensing of marijuana firms. The case centers on whether a law passed during a 2017 special legislative session violated a constitutional amendment that broadly legalized medical marijuana. Leon County Circuit Judge Charles Dodson in…… MORE
FORT WALTON BEACH – FOLLOW-UP ON FOUND BODIES
The married couple found dead in a submerged vehicle at Liza Jackson Park in Fort Walton Beach may have been in the car for several days before they were found. 89-year-old Dea Hee Kim, and 82-year-old Ho Shin Kim, were found last Saturday morning in an S.U.V. in Santa Rosa Sound after a duck hunter…… MORE
PROPOSED MONUMENTS BILL
Florida House District 1 Representative Mike Hill has filed a bill that would make it illegal to remove a public monument for any reason other than repairs or relocation to an equally prominent place. The “Soldiers’ and Heroes’ Monuments and Memorials Protection Act,” would protect all monuments built on public property on or after March…… MORE
