Crime Archive

CRESTVIEW — A Crestview woman is dead following a traffic accident around 8:50 a.m. this morning.

CRESTVIEW — A former Hub City police chief has been arrested on one count of official misconduct, state attorney Bill Eddins said.

FORT WALTON BEACH — Okaloosa County Sheriff Larry Ashley is standing firm on a plan to spend $3.4 million to keep an armed deputy in every school for another year.

CRESTVIEW — Four people walked on a train trestle that crosses Yellow River on Tuesday before they heard an oncoming train that sent two residents to the hospital, according to the Okaloosa County Sh…

CRESTVIEW — Two people were walking on a train trestle that crosses Yellow River on Tuesday before they heard an oncoming train and a woman was hit, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.

CRESTVIEW — The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office has received its first reaccreditation award from the Commission for Florida Law Enforcement Accreditation.

CRESTVIEW — A 37-year-old man is in custody at the Okaloosa County Jail after being arrested on charges of sexual battery on a child over 12.

CRESTVIEW — A local doctor, accused in 2010 of misusing $800,000 from his company’s pension plan, has been ordered to pay back $225,000 of that money.

CRESTVIEW — A man faces armed burglary and criminal mischief charges following a gas station burglary.

CRESTVIEW — Police are investigating a traffic incident that resulted in the fatality of one Department of Corrections inmate earlier this morning on P.J. Adams Parkway.