Ocean City News

Wednesday was a scorcher, and it doesn't look like temperatures are going to drop before Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.

Name: Danielle Jones Age: 18 School: Stephen Decatur High School Grade: 12th School-related activities: Field hockey, National Honor Society, national English Honor Society, peer mediator, student mentor, outdoor track, swim team manager.

Firefighters battled a house fire Friday evening on Pinedale Road, not far from the Ocean City-Wright fire station on Racetrack Road.

Two people were taken to area hospitals with minor injuries after a dump truck clipped the back of a pick-up truck on State Road 189 early Monday evening.

OCEAN CITY -- When you're 5 and in kindergarten, it takes expert juggling skills to manage a dual career.

On the worst day in 33 years for unemployed Floridians, it rained. For Christina McFarland, it poured.

People across Northwest Florida hunkered down Thursday morning after reports of severe weather and possible tornadoes headlined news.. The severe weather, complete with lightning and standing water on streets, came.

A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 AM CDT FOR SOUTHERN SANTA ROSA...EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN ESCAMBIA AND SOUTHERN OKALOOSA COUNTIES... AT 831 AM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.

Scott Brace will serve almost three years in prison for causing an accident that seriously injured an Okaloosa sheriff's deputy March 20, 2009 - 5:01 PM Andrew Gant Daily News SHALIMAR - A man who caused a sheriff's deputy's patrol car to flip and burn in a near-fatal wreck last year has been sentenced to nearly three years in state prison.

A second person has been arrested in connection with a motorcycle accident Sept.

Logan Helton looks like any other 4-year-old boy - tousled hair and a curiosity in his eyes and grin.

A teen was flown to a Pensacola Hospital after crashing his dirt bike into a brick house Sunday afternoon.

A man was shot and injured early Tuesday at the Consul apartments at 120 Monahan Drive in the Ocean City community.

The resident of a mobile home that caught fire overnight escaped without injury after he woke up on his couch and smelled smoke.

Three people were injured in an early morning wreck on Eglin Parkway but they were treated in record time.

Firefighters rescued four dogs from a fire Tuesday morning in a house with no people inside.

A man and woman might have died Tuesday, firefighters said, if one of them had not called for help after feeling dizzy.

Lawmen gather outside a house on Plymouth Avenue in Ocean City on July 22 after Okaloosa County Sheriff's Deputy Anthony Forgione was shot and killed.

An accident in the intersection of Mary Esther Cut-Off and U.S. Highway 98 tied up traffic on both roadways and sent one driver to a Pensacola hospital by helicopter.

Ocean City-Wright fire commissioners voted Thursday to grant themselves salaries, despite some strife from taxpayers who think the job should remain unpaid.