Niceville News

An Okaloosa County sheriff's deputy was shot and killed Tuesday morning when he and other deputies went into a house to apprehend a man who had walked out of a mental health evaluation.

Authorities released the identity of the slain Okaloosa County sheriff's deputy and the gunman who fatally shot him while barricading himself inside his home.

Jillian M. Smith and Daniel E. Marsh were united in holy matrimony in a beautiful evening ceremony barefoot on the beaches of St.

Florida schools that rally, drill and otherwise throw themselves into an FCAT frenzy may have to exercise more control, now that new test-prep restrictions have become law.

A $1.23 million federal grant will jump-start construction of a hurricane fortress, ecstatic public safety officials said Friday.

It was 50 years ago this year when rocket scientists and airmen gathered here at Vandenberg with nothing more than chalkboard theory and test fired a missile capable of dropping a nuclear bomb on an enemy ...

A Niceville man is behind bars, accused of murdering his wife in Oklahoma. Mark Paul Bixler is suspected of stabbing and killing his wife several days ago in a town outside Tulsa, Oklahoma.

One man arrested in connection with Monday morning's armed home invasions faces an attempted murder charge after pulling the trigger of a gun four times while holding it against a boy's head.

Niceville police are releasing some images from a surveillance camera to try to catch a robbery suspect.

Eglin Air Force Base has granted one-year extensions to the leases for the Boggy Bayou Mullet Festival and the Valparaiso/Niceville Girls Softball Association.

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office Problem Oriented Policing Unit - or POP Squad - has been busy coordinating and operating undercover drug buys in an effort to crackdown on street sales of drugs in the ...

A 50-year-old man known for disorderly intoxication was charged for it again after waving a knife in the air toward traffic, police say.

If Braves director of scouting Roy Clark had his wish, he'd have been able to sign each of his top Draft picks within days after selecting them.

Awhile back, we spoke with Pat Byrne, the man in charge at Valparaiso Realty. We spoke to him about his attempt to bring The Home Depot to Niceville.

Cake and candles are nice for celebrating birthdays, but when it comes to the nation's special day, communities pull out all the stops.

Before stepping up to the picnic table laden with chunks of watermelon, Wyatt Kirkpatrick of Niceville got tips from his big sister.

A driver stopped for running a red light was arrested for drugs after police searched his car.

A storm that rolled over the Panhandle about 9 a.m. brought more than heavy rain and thunder.

Superintendent James McCalister will present a new budget at Monday's School Board workshop that avoids closing A.D. Harris and repurposing Millville Elementary School.

School districts around the state await instructions to implement Florida's Ethics in Education Act, which officially goes into effect Tuesday.