Defuniak Springs, FL News

Christmas has arrived several weeks early for the Walton County Emergency Operation's Center which is run by the Sheriff's Office.

With the holidays right around the corner, the south Walton fire district is gearing up for its eighth annual angel tree charity foundation.

DeFUNIAK SPRINGS DeFuniak Springs Fire Department responded to a residential home at 3 a.m. Wednesday where a kitchen fire sent smoke throughout a Quebec Avenue home.

Dannie Roy Baker, who is charged with killing two Chilean students and wounding three others in February, has been deemed incompetent to stand trial.

A Freeport man is in jail after DeFuniak Springs police officers found a mobile methamphetamine lab in his car.

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The First United Methodist Church in DeFuniak Springs will present organist Mike Edington in a Christmas Concert at 3 p.m. Dec.

The Bay County Commission made a decision Tuesday that might cost the county $20,000 next year, lead to four local truckers losing their jobs and send some business to Walton County.

This Thursday, November 19th, the public is invited to a free car safety seat installation check point at the DeFuniak Springs Chautauqua Center Campus of Northwest Florida State College on U.S. Highway 90.

DeFuniak Springs, FL The Walton County Sheriff's Office is looking into the recent theft of copper wire from a vacant trailer off County Road 183, just outside of DeFuniak Springs.

On Wednesday night, November 11, 2009, Jeremy D. Smith of Bristol, Florida and Cora Mayo of Defuniak Springs, FL were arrested following a traffic stop by Sgt.

BY ALICIA LEONARD Jack Bell and Freddie Lopez, through attorney Bert Moore, petitioned on Nov.

Outside the administration offices located in DeFuniak Springs. Archive for November 13th, 2009 << Previous Entries PHOTOSNOVEMBER 12, 2009 Nov 13th, 2009 0 Freeport's Damen Reynolds stayed busy returning kickoffs and punts as the Bulldogs won a high-scoring affair 52-35 over Holmes County on Friday night.

On 11/5/9 Deputy Mahan with the Holmes County Sheriff's Office while on routine patrol stopped a Nissan mini van being driven by Harvey Tracy Cosson, W/M, 43 YOA, from Defuniak Springs for traffic violations.

On Thursday, November 12, 2009, Officers with the DeFuniak Springs Police arrested three male subjects that are believed to be responsible for an on-going rash of recent business burglaries in the City of DeFuniak Springs.

Early Tuesday Morning, a Defuniak Springs resident called 911 to report her father-in-law, Vincent Ferrara, had come to her home on Highway 90 waving a .38 caliber handgun.

Three burglaries were discovered Tuesday at three schools in DeFuniak Springs. According to reports, due to inclement weather from tropical storm Ida, West DeFuniak Elementary, Maude Saunders Elementary, and the Walton Career Developmental Center were all closed, however, during the school's closure, all three were vanalized and broken into.

Three burglaries were discovered in the afternoon and evening of Tuesday, November 10th, 2009.

A veteran police officer arrested in 2006 after a surprise stint on NBC's "To Catch a Predator" will be prosecuted in Walton County, the Sheriff's Office said Monday.

Mossy Head, FL Over the weekend, a fugitive from the Mossy Head community surrendered to authorities.