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 116 Hollywood Boulevard SW located next to the Volkswagen/Subaru dealership. The city asks that you bring your own shovel…… MORE
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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 Winchester are accused of having had non-consensual sex with the female victim in a portable toilet outside a Circle K gas station. The…… MORE
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. The National Hurricane Center said there is a 70 percent chance that a tropical depression forms in the Gulf of Mexico within the…… MORE
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 Bear Company without board approval. In 2007 ECUA won a lawsuit to obtain property through eminent domain to bury a sewer line on the business’ property,…… MORE
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 from Atlanta, was reported walking around the 2nd floor of the Home 2 Suite Hotel in Destin shouting for a family in room 218 to open…… MORE
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 better than traditional stop-smoking tools in helping people quit smoking. Critics of the study say the study did not rigorously test effectiveness and only…… MORE
FLORIDA ELECTION SECURITY GRANT
Yesterday, Florida Governor Rick Scott ordered state officials to speed up the acquisition of a 19-million dollar federal grant intended to protect the state’s election systems from cyber-attack. The money is part of a 380 million dollar national election protection program President Trump approved in March. Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner, the state’s chief…… MORE
TURTLE NESTING
Biologists at Gulf Islands National Seashore have found the first sea turtle nest of the season. It has been identified as belonging to a loggerhead turtle. The nesting season begins in mid-May and ends in late summer. The loggerhead is the most common species seen nesting, but Kemp’s ridley, green and occasionally leatherback sea turtles…… MORE
BAY COUNTY STANDOFF
A 49-year-old man is dead after a standoff in Bay County with several law enforcement agencies. Around 9 a.m. yesterday the Walton County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a homicide in Santa Rosa Beach. The victim, Clinton Street, was found dead of gunshot wounds. Kevin Holroyd was identified as a suspect and neighbors…… MORE
CHARGES UPGRADED
The State Attorney’s Office has upgraded the charges for the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office crime scene technician accused of stealing narcotics from the Sheriff’s Department’s evidence room. 41-year-old Christine Rollins was arrested May 18th. Now State Attorney Bill Eddins said the original charges have been increased since Rollins is now accused of stealing more than…… MORE
