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To the relief of many residents who live near it, a 70-acre property on the northwest corner of U.S. Highway 90 and Mt. Olive Road east of Crestview will not be purchased by Okaloosa County for the site of the new county jail. The property stands about seven miles east of State Road 85 and across U.S. 90 from the Shoal River Ranch industrial park.

Florida Highway Patrol officials are still trying to locate the car and driver involved in a recent hit-and-run accident in Crestview.

Okaloosa County officials recently announced the implementation of a new blood administration program that will allow Emergency Medical Services staff to treat patients on emergency scenes with a portable supply of blood.

Starting at noon on Saturday, Dec. 9, the city of Crestview plans to begin blocking off all of Main Street and a portion of North Wilson Street for the city’s rescheduled Christmas Parade. The parade is scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. If Mother Nature cooperates — and that might be a big “if” — the parade will follow the city’s Christmas tree-lighting ceremony that’s scheduled to start at 5 p.m. next to the Okaloosa County Veterans Memorial on the corner of North Main Street and Courthouse Terrace.

Brother and sister Tripp and Kellianna Grant might only be in the third and second grades at Bob Sikes Elementary School, but they have compassion and wisdom far beyond their years.

By car, Bethlehem is half-hour drive on Israel’s Route 75 from Nazareth. But 2,000 years ago, a young couple undertook the trip by donkey. To complicate matters, the lady was pregnant, ready to give birth at any minute, and as she jostled along on the family donkey, her husband walked along beside her.

The Crestview Police Department is trying to find three black males who were involved in an exchange of gunfire on Wednesday at the Laurel Oak Terrace apartments on South Lloyd Street.

Eglin’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight hosted the Air Force’s first-ever EOD Heritage Panel Nov. 10, 2023.

The panel brought together career field managers to discuss the history, current state, and future of the EOD program. EOD has only had 10 total career field managers for the entire program, and this was the first opportunity to bring them all together, putting 270 years of EOD experience on one stage.

After departing from Shoal River Wayside Park by Crestview’s south end, kayakers paddling upstream will pass banks of white sand, coast under cartoonish wasp nests dangling from branches, stir great blue herons and other birds to flight and see handsome cypress trees left alone by the mulcher.

Destin-Fort Walton Beach will be recognized for travel marketing excellence by the Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International during this year’s Adrian Awards Celebration.