Timothy Paul Price-Williams entered a plea of guilty to first degree murder on Thursday in the December 2022 death of Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Cpl. Ray Hamilton.
Visitors to the Crestview Welcome and Adventure Center can check out real marine life such as a spiny lobster and a decorator crab, feel what it’s like to catch a marlin, and color and scan in a drawing of a fish before seeing it swim above an artificial reef depicted on a 6-foot-long interactive touchscreen display table.
A 25-year-old woman from Crestview suffered minor injuries and a 44-year-old woman from Crestview was seriously injured in a two-vehicle accident in Destin on Wednesday.
As the outside temperature reached 94 degrees shortly before 1 p.m. today, 67-year-old Crestview resident Danny Newton thanked yet another customer for buying a watermelon from the bed of his pickup truck and told her to “Have a blessed day.”
The U.S Army Special Operations Command has issued a “Duty to Warn” notification regarding a potential terrorist threat targeting retired senior officials who previously served in the Department of Defense with roles in the Syria/Iraq theater.
The future home of the Okaloosa County Tax Collector’s and Property Appraiser’s offices, as well as offices for other government services, is expected to serve north county residents for several decades, county Tax Collector Ben Anderson said during this morning’s groundbreaking ceremony for the two-story, approximately 30,000-square-foot office building in Crestview.
It has been a busy month for the Emerald Coast Zoo in Crestview. The zoo recently welcomed the first giraffe born in the city, Mutombo, on June 1.
Mutombo, born two months early, stood 5 feet, 10 inches tall at birth. Since being born, he is already 6 feet, 4 inches. His dad, Dikembe, is 16 feet tall.
After finding out its huge, estimated total cost, Crestview City Council members are backing away from pursuing the construction of a major city sports complex.
