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Casey DeSantis, Florida's First Lady, announces a child protective services initiative at a news conference held at the Air Force Armament Museum

At Eglin Air Force Base, the Jackson Guard site near Niceville, offers residents and visitors a educational adventure.

Niceville ponder future uses of old Mullet Festival grounds; city manager plans discussion with Eglin officials.

For one Kansas family, though, it's close enough. Last May, the Casey family gathered in a cemetery in their hometown of Derby, Kansas, as they had for the previous 11 years to remember the prematurely born twin boys who died on May 19, 2009, just one day after they came into the world. Routinely, the Caseys and their six other children, ranging in age from 18 to 8, have left toy cars, stuffed animals and other items to adorn the gravestone commemorating Chance and Lane Casey as their "little angels." Last year, though, at the urging of 8-year-old daughter Hadley, the family did som...

The campground has seven primitive camping sites nestled beneath the trees next to the water. In 2012, a pipe that drained the water from the 10-acre pond into the nearby Lightwood Knot Creek failed, and the earthen dam that held the water in place gave way. Lightwood Knot Creek passes beneath Lewis Turner Boulevard before draining into Garnier Bayou. Without the dam in place, a heavy rain event had the potential to flood Lewis Turner Boulevard. So Jackson Guard, working with state and federal regulators, drained Timberlake Pond and began rebuilding the dam and pond's water control system....