The Okaloosa County Board of County Commissioners voted March 24 to ban red-light cameras and speed enforcement cameras from county-owned rights of way and county-maintained roads, citing due process concerns raised by a recent Florida court ruling.

A masked student armed with a sharp weapon attacked two classmates and a paraprofessional at Walton Middle School early Tuesday morning before being taken into custody within minutes, authorities said at a press conference in DeFuniak Springs on March 24.

The Okaloosa County Board of County Commissioners is set to consider ratifying the submission of a $5 million federal grant application to fund the widening of a heavily congested stretch of State Road 85 in Crestview known as the “Miracle Mile.”

The Okaloosa County Commission will consider a resolution Tuesday to ban red light cameras and speed detection systems from county roadways and rights-of-way, a move prompted by a Broward County court ruling that struck down part of Florida’s automated traffic enforcement law as unconstitutional.

A Crestview man has been sentenced to two consecutive life terms without parole after a jury found him guilty of killing his parents and the family’s two dogs in a 2019 double homicide, according to a news release from the Office of State Attorney Ginger Bowden Madden.

A Crestview man was arrested on drug trafficking charges after deputies discovered about 100 grams of methamphetamine during a routine traffic stop, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.

A Crestview man has been arrested after investigators say they discovered more than 6,000 files of computer-generated child pornography during a search of his home, according to the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.