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More than 65,000 claims nationwide have been eliminated from a disability compensation claims backlog, the Department of Veterans Affairs has announced.

DEFUNIAK SPRINGS — A Crestview man will spend 21 months in prison for traveling to Walton County to meet whom he thought was a 14-year-old girl, according to the Walton County Sheriff's Office.

CRESTVIEW — A Hub City man faces sentencing on July 31 following conviction associated with a 2011 burglary.

UPDATE: Crestview's Fourth of July fireworks display has been canceled. No alternative date has been set.

CRESTVIEW — Okaloosa County Supervisor of Elections Paul Lux offered his views and recommendations to the Presidential Commission on Election Administration at Friday’s University of Miami public hea…

Did you know that if a child goes all summer without engaging his or her brain by reading, he or she could lose some of the previous school year’s lessons? Educators call it "summer loss."

CRESTVIEW — The Okaloosa County Commission on the Status of Women is accepting nominations for the 2013 Women's Hall of Fame. Deadline is July 12.

The Crestview Police Department and Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office provided the following crime reports for publication.

CRESTVIEW — Jacob Robert Somers, 16, of Crestview, has earned the Eagle Scout Rank, the Boy Scouts of America’s highest advancement.

CRESTVIEW — Okaloosa County commissioners have selected City Councilman Thomas Gordon to represent the north county in oil spill recovery efforts.