Santa Rosa County News

This Saturday the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office non-emergency dispatch phone systems will be down for a few hours.

An administrator with Kids Discovery on Gulf Breeze Parkway told deputies Paul F. Small of Navarre hit two children in her care because they touched him, according to his Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office arrest report.

Facing an uncertain future and operating on a month-to-month contract, the TEAM Santa Rosa board has offered $15,000 in bonuses for two employees if they stay on the job through September.

The following suspects were charged with felonies Tuesday at Escambia County Jail.

Gale Messerschmidt, curator of the T.T. Wentworth Jr. Florida State Museum, has assembled an exhibit detailing the history of Girl Scouts in the area.

Commercial natural gas customers of the City of Gulf Breeze could get a refund on their deposit if the City Council moves ahead with a new deposit policy.

A Gulf Breeze man is facing charges for an overnight crash in Santa Rosa County.

SANTA ROSA COUNTY, Fla. -- Santa Rosa County's embattled economic development group, Team Santa Rosa is trying to hold onto two key employees.

SANTA ROSA COUNTY, Fla. - Drivers along Highway 98 in Santa Rosa County may notice some landscaping improvements this week.

The following suspects were charged with felonies Monday at Escambia County Jail.

Drab Tiger Point medians to be spruced up. Contacts Santa Rosans need to know for hurricane season.

The Florida Department of Transportation says it's trying to fast-track the installation of a traffic signal and enhanced crosswalk at a Gulf Breeze intersection near where two pedestrians were killed and a bicyclist was seriously injured in the past three months.

Several government offices, agencies and schools will keep their doors shut Monday in observance of Memorial Day.

Big Brothers Big Sisters is a mentoring program that has made significant changes in the lives of children.A Research has found that after spending time with their "Big", the "Little" was 46% less likely to begin using illegal drugs, 52% less likely to skip school and 27% more likely to receive a four year college degree.

After an attack by a pit bull four years ago, a week and a half in the hospital, $100,000 in medical bills and a four-day trial this week, Vicki Bentley says she wants to finally get on with her life.

A 2008 Kia was westbound in the left turn lane of State Road 30 approaching a median break at the intersection of Sealark Lane.

Florida Department of Transportation is trying to fast-track the installation of a traffic signal on U.S. 98 near where, in the past three months, two pedestrians were struck and killed and a bicyclist was injured in a hit- and-run. But Ian Satter, FDOT spokesman, said it will still be roughly four months before the signal in the busy stretch of ... (more)

Today is National Missing Children's Day. The Santa Rosa Sheriff's Office and Santa Rosa County Crimestoppers is hosting a free child fingerprinting event.

The following suspects were charged with felonies Wednesday at Escambia County Jail.

MILTON, Fla. -- A natural gas main break in Santa Rosa County shut down a half-mile stretch of Highway 90 for about an hour on Thursday.