I’m in a class that was recently tasked with watching two side by side 15-second videos of a woman speaking and determining which was real and which was AI generated.

Of about 25 people in the room, about 50% were able to discern which video was real. (For anyone wondering, I got it right.)

I’ll never forget my first trip to Disney World when I was a young child, probably younger than 5. Admittedly, I probably remember it more through my dad’s grumbling than through what I remember.

Sometimes it amazes me what makes news.

As Hurricane Milton came ashore last week in Florida, lives were lost. Millions of damage occurred, if not more. And there are people who survived who will have a drastically different life in the aftermath.

Last year, a community I covered in Georgia spent hundreds of thousands of dollars adding metal detectors to their middle and high schools.

There’s a long-running joke out there that just about anyone can be a weatherman.

The Okaloosa County Board of County Commissioners approved a contingent contract on Oct. 1 that is the next step in acquiring the historic SS United States and converting the historic ocean liner into the world’s largest artificial reef.

Crestview threw everything except the kitchen sink at Pace Friday night in a massive district opener for both teams.

I remember being a middle school student, working on a PowerPoint presentation for Black History Month, when I heard the word Google for the first time. My teacher had just found out about the new search engine with a fun name and told us we should use it for our research.

Baker needed a bounce back performance, and the Gators got one in a big way on Friday night against North Bay Haven Academy.

I’ve worked in the newspaper business for 11 years now, and during football season, I always joke that the weeks run Friday to Friday instead of Monday-Friday.