Wright News

Christ Temple Holiness Church members Louise Wright, Mable Boone and Peggy Adams ready a New Years Day lunch to serve to the poor in the church's fellowship hall early Friday afternoon.

FORT WALTON BEACH A dump truck took down power lines outside the Wright Landfill Saturday.

It's been 18 months since Ocean City Elementary School closed its doors and students were moved to other schools.

A Fort Walton Beach man was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol after a wreck that rolled his truck sent one person to the hospital and blocked traffic for more than an hour.

A man in a Mitsubishi Montero drove into the front of the Burger King on Racetrack Road on Tuesday night, causing significant damage to the front of the building.

A man was killed in a Thursday night car accident on Woodbine Circle in Fort Walton Beach.

12/1: JOHN PAUL PARRIS, 33, an Okaloosa County Jail inmate, was charged with armed robbery.

Jennifer D'Silva arrived in Tampa at least 40 minutes before her probation officer said she could go.

A green Ford Explorer burst into flames just after 5:00 p.m. Thursday after the driver pulled into the parking lot of the Fort Walton Beach Medical Center.

Two months ago, Bruce Brooks' resignation from the Holley-Navarre Fire District Board of Fire Commissioners left a void in the five-member all-volunteer board.

Deputies are searching for a man who stole a vehicle and then fled on foot after he crashed it.

Since The Origin of Species was published 150 years ago many articles on evolution are seeing the light of day today.

Wright Baptist Church invites the community to a Thanksgiving Celebration noon-2 p.m. today.

Four weeks after a fatal house fire in Sylvania Heights brought attention to the neighborhood's aging water system, Okaloosa County crews have installed two hydrants on Tilden Street.

Two pedestrians hit by a vehicle Wednesday night were seriously injured. The pedestrians were crossing Mary Esther Cutoff near the Whataburger around 9:30 p.m. when a vehicle crashed into them, according to Ocean City-Wright Fire Department Battalion Chief Robert Hall.

FORT WALTON BEACH A 13-year-old boy was arrested Oct. 24 on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after a scuffle in a church parking lot.

Travis Dewrell was supposed to be at his first day of work. Instead, he was lying on the wet ground and holding a man's hand.

A Chevy Blazer collided with a motor scooter at the intersection of Racetrack Road and Skipper Avenue at about 10 Monday morning.

Halas has served commission District 2, which encompasses much of North Naples, since 2002.

Traffic was backed up on U.S. Highway 98 west beyond Beal Parkway on Friday morning as firefighters hung 20 feet below the Brooks Bridge.