Vaida Jasmine McDougald, a 13-year-old Okaloosa Online Student who lives in the Deerland area east of Crestview, was arrested at her home on Dec. 2 on a second-degree felony charge of making an electronic threat of a mass shooting/terrorist act.

Returning Hub City Mayor J.B. Whitten and newly elected City Councilors Brandon Frost and Shannon Hayes were each sworn into office on Nov. 18 by the Rev. Paul Mixon, who is a pastor at Central Baptist Church in Crestview and the District 1 Okaloosa County commissioner.

God put all the pieces into place for Crestview to have a Safe Haven Baby Box, then-City Councilor Cynthia Brown said at the Oct. 28 ribbon-cutting ceremony for the life-saving initiative.

Three hundred U.S. flags, or about one for every 10 people who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America, sway in the breeze sailing over the front yard of Barry and Arlene Barrett’s home at 6070 Old Bethel Road, just outside of Crestview’s city limits.