Valparaiso News

Commissioners are trying to fill three city positions. They will meet Monday to narrow down a list of applicants for public works director and begin interviewing top applicants for city administrator Thursday.

Three local teens were arrested after following a pizza delivery person and conspiring to rob him at gunpoint.

Building plans for the new Walmart that Valparaiso Realty wants to anchor a large commercial project off John Sims Parkway, were submitted to city officials this week.

Doug Wyckoff says attorneys Matt Gaetz, Michelle Anchors and Mike Chesser spoke with two city commissioners about F-35 controversy June 10, 2009 - 7:42 PM Andrew Gant Matt Gaetz's interviews - or "interrogation" sessions - with a Valparaiso city commissioner were part of a secret pattern of misconduct between players in the ongoing F-35 conflict, ...

Three Okaloosa County attorneys have been accused of professional misconduct by the city of Valparaiso.

Valparaiso Realty still doesn't have the final word that Walmart will be coming to anchor a large commercial project off John Sims Parkway, but the local developer is working to make sure that all is in place for construction to begin later this year.

There may be a break in the long running dispute between the City of Valparaiso and the Air Force over the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

A 49-year-old man was charged with DUI, driving with a suspended license, grand theft, drug possession, theft of a credit card, fraud and refusing a breathalyzer test for the second time, according to his Niceville Police Department arrest report.

A joint investigation by the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office and Niceville Police Department has led to the arrest of a Valparaiso woman on multiple counts of grand theft.

Published: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 4:52 a.m. VALPARAISO In his 45th year as mayor, John B. Arnold Jr.

Residents cringed and plugged their ears as the sounds of fighter jets screamed, the shrieks so piercing that they may as well have been flying directly overhead - instead of coming out of loudspeakers.

Long before the words "Joint Strike Fighter" and "Valparaiso" were uttered in the same sentence, base officials had a plan for noise abatement in place.

An ethics complaint filed against Northwest Florida State College Board of Trustees member Joseph W. Henderson will keep him from voting on the fate of college President James "Bob" Richburg when the board meets this morning.

The Joint Strike Fighter has arrived. Escorted by an F-16 from Eglin Air Force Base, a Lockheed Martin pilot landed the fifth-generation aircraft about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The community opened its arms Thursday and gave the F-35 a big hug. As military personnel parked along the flight line and local officials stood as close as they could get, the Joint Strike Fighter hugged them back.

Waiting for him was a tight cluster of family and friends, a scattering of strangers and lines of uniformed soldiers and airmen.

Valparaiso's lawsuit against the Air Force is "unnecessary and destructive for our communities," the Destin Area Chamber of Commerce says, and the city should find other ways to settle its dispute.

There was some surprising testimony in Okaloosa County's lawsuit against the City Of Valparaiso.

The battle over the F-35 Joint Strike Fighters moved to a courtroom this afternoon.

The search for a suspected murderer is now in its 4th day, and Walton County authorities need your help.