Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden speaking out following the second arrest in as many months of illegal aliens accused of committing sex crimes on teenage girls. These are two separate cases. In both instances, the suspects were deported only to come back. DNA also helped lead to both arrests. Both suspects remain in the Okaloosa County Jail with immigration holds.
Defendants in two murder trials in Florida’s Escambia County received their sentences in court actions on Tuesday, according to the state attorney’s office.
More on those allegations of extreme animal cruelty out of Northwest Florida. Three Crestview women are free on bond -- all facing dozens of charges after investigators found dogs severely malnourished and other animals neglected. Again -- a warning -- some of the images are disturbing.
A 41-year-old Pensacola woman wanted in connection with a fatal hit-and-run last month has been caught in Kentucky, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Barbara Sokol, of Biloxi, said her daughter died on July 1. She hasn't been able to get her daughter's remains due to an outage at Florida's Electronic Death Registry System.
Police say they served a search warrant last Wednesday on Bradley Circle before they confiscated several hundred fentanyl pills, marijuana, a firearm and over $14,000.
On the morning of July 4 Yellowstone National Park law enforcement confronted an individual shooting a semi-automatic rifle toward a dining facility. According to park officials, the shooter has been identified by the corner as Samson Lucas Bariah Fussner of Milton, Florida.
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office reports that after an exhaustive search involving over 100 first responders, the body of a missing 4-year-old boy has been recovered.
Early Tuesday morning, a house fire broke out in Destin. Okaloosa County Sheriff's deputies say one person had to jump from a second story balcony to escape the flames.
The Okaloosa County Health Department has issued a health advisory after an estimated 10,600 gallons of untreated wastewater spilled in Fort Walton Beach Saturday night.
Parts of Friday and all day Saturday, double red flags were flying on Bay County beaches, meaning the water is closed due to dangerous conditions. But that did not stop people from getting in for a swim.
Two people face felony murder charges after an alleged drug-deal-turned-robbery attempt led to a fight that ended with the shooting death of a 26-year-old man on Swallowtail Lane in Pensacola.
It’s a wrongful-death claim. But this is no ordinary lawsuit. A federal judge in the District of Columbia last month awarded nearly $1 billion to victims of terrorism attacks by Iran in Iraq over nearly a decade. A Pensacola law firm handled the litigation.
Four women in Florida with ‘expensive taste’ stole 24 Stanley tumbler cups from a hardware store, along with champagne, lobster and crab meat from other locations, according to authorities.