It took less than two hours of deliberation for a Fort Walton Beach jury to find former Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputy Eddie Duran not guilty in connection with the 2024 shooting death of Senior Airman Roger Fortson.
South end students in Santa Rosa County can now take some Locklin Technical College courses without heading north this year. It is one of several changes to career and technical education in the district for the new school year.
Opponents of the proposed Navarre Beach boardwalk dominated the public forum at the Santa Rosa County Commission meeting on Sept. 22 in Milton, pressing commissioners on the project as a public workshop is now less than a month away.
A Jay High School social studies teacher who once walked the school’s hallways as a student is now the school’s teacher of the year; an honor he credits to those who taught him.
A Pace woman who shot her husband in 2022 and then tried to have her husband “knocked off” by a hitman was sentenced to 60 years in prison by Santa Rosa County Judge Clifton Drake.
Steven Bienkowski spent 26 years as a Navy surface warfare officer, most of them at sea. Nearly a decade after trading in his dress whites for suede shoes and suave sport coats, he has been named Pace High School’s Teacher of the Year.
Milton Councilmember Larry McKee has given notice to the council that next month he will ask members to reconsider their vote on an ordinance change that would allow a tattoo shop to open downtown.
