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Walton commissioners approve placement of referendum on a 1% sales tax hike for road projects on Nov. 8 ballot.

Walton County commissioners earned applause Tuesday for rejecting a rezoning request that would have allowed more homes on a Nellie Drive tract.

Neither driver was identified. Law officers cordoned off the crash site and directed motorists away from the area, and were still at the scene at 4 a.m., according to the FHP. At that time a Walton County sheriff's deputy was sitting in his vehicle with its lights activated at the corner of U.S. 331 and Bay Magnolia Lane when he saw a pickup truck heading north in the outside lane. The truck crashed through traffic cones and struck the deputy's vehicle as he scrambled out, the FHP reported. The deputy suffered minor injuries. The truck's driver, a 33-year-old man from Freeport, was charg...

Northwest Florida Daily News/USA TODAY NETWORK Editor's note: An earlier version of this story misidentified the gender of the deceased. BAKER — A 9-year-old boy was killed and five other people, including three young children, were critically or seriously injured in a head-on collision on State Road 4 on Monday evening, according to a Florida Highway Patrol news release. The crash occurred about 6:25 p.m. near Keyser Mill Road southeast of Baker. A red Subaru SUV occupied by a 39-year-old woman and four children, all from Evergreen, Alabama, was traveling east on SR 4 as a gray Kia ...

Special to the Northwest Florida Daily News/USA TODAY NETWORK SANTA ROSA BEACH — An 88-year-old man from Santa Rosa Beach suffered critical injuries Friday afternoon when his car collided with a trailer being towed by a pickup truck on Chat Holley Road, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The man was driving a silver sedan west on Chat Holley near South Third Street at 4:19 p.m. when he crossed the center line as the eastbound Chevrolet pickup was approaching, the FHP reported. The car struck a dump trailer being towed by the pickup. The truck then veered onto the south shoulder and th...