The Hub City and Milton are among 13 of “the best Florida cities where you can retire within your budget,” according to a recent article on the website, financebuzz.com.
Two women and three men were arrested on various charges today after members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Multi-Agency Drug Task Force executed a narcotics search warrant at 15 Elm Ave. SE in Fort Walton Beach.
A 24-year-old registered sex offender from Wright, near Fort Walton Beach, was arrested today on charges of possession of child pornography, failure to register internet identifiers as a sex offender, and violation of felony probation.
Construction is progressing on Pineview School, which stands next to a portion of the southwest Crestview bypass and is scheduled to open in August 2026.
Members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Multi-Agency Drug Task Force today arrested three men after executing a narcotics search warrant at 715 Tuxedo Drive in the Fort Walton Beach area.
Jerolene Henry, a Crestview native and the first African American to graduate from the school now known as Northwest Florida State College, died on July 7 at age 78.
Vigilance by a determined Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputy helped nab the driver of a stolen pickup truck on Sunday within about an hour of the crime, 45 miles away.
The local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution recently donated a “Liberty Tree” to the Crestview History Museum, aka the Bush House, at 198 S. Wilson St.
A Fort Walton Beach-area man wanted for questioning in connection with a battery on a 78-year-old woman barricaded himself inside his Ed Street home on Sunday and threatened to shoot responding deputies, Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office officials said today in a news release.
