10 AUGUST 2015
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Today is the 222nd day of the year. There are 143 days left in the year.
On this day in 1984, the action thriller Red Dawn, starring Patrick Swayze, opens in theaters as the first movie to be released with a PG-13 rating. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which oversees the movie rating system, had announced the new PG-13 category in July of that same year.
ON THIS DAY IN:
1776 London learns of American independence
1846 Smithsonian Institution created
1861 Rebels defeat Union force at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek
1945 Japan accepts Potsdam terms, agrees to unconditional surrender
1981 Pete Rose sets National League hits record
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Join us on WZEP AM 1460 for a special program this week,
“POINT BLANK with T.H. Merritt”
Monday through Friday
During the 8 A.M. and Noon News Hour.
An in-depth discussion of issues that impact our lives and community with people in the news.
My guest will be the new Walton County Emergency Management Director
Jeffrey Goldberg.
News Segment 1
GUNMAN CAPTURED IN DFS
It looked like an episode of COPS in Defuniak
Springs Sunday afternoon as Police searched for a gunman on the loose.
Around 1:15 PM yesterday afternoon, a gunman
opened fire from nearby woods at the Oakdale Garden Apartments at 226 N. First Street. Witnesses reported hearing multiple gunshots
in the area.
Police arrived to find a bullet hole in a vehicle
belonging to 25-year old Mark Thompson.
Thompson told police the gunman was 18-year old Jamerius Thorne saying
he fired several shots at him before fleeing the scene in a vehicle with his
girlfriend. Thompson stated that Thorne was angry with him from a previous
disturbance and was retaliating.
Defuniak Springs Police and Walton County
Sheriff’s deputies captured Thorne around 4:45 Sunday afternoon without
incident. He was taken to the police department for questioning, arrested and
booked into the Walton County Jail charged with Aggravated Assault with a
Firearm. Additional charges are pending.
Officers say, fortunately no one was injured
during this incident. Oakdale Garden Apartments houses multiple families,
including children.
Details will run from 7am to 8am and from 2pm to
3pm and will include deputies running radar, looking for infractions, and
following school buses along their routes to make sure drivers are obeying
traffic laws. The Sheriff will also be deploying digital message boards to be
placed at several intersections throughout the county.
News Segment 2
DFS WOMAN
ESCAPES SERIOUS INJURY IN MULTI CAR CRASH
An accident on State Road 293 just south of North Lakeshore Drive
in Okaloosa County left a Defuniak Springs woman
with minor injuries and several others with serious injuries.
Troopers say 52-year old Adonna Jean Zehr of
Defuniak Springs was southbound on 293 when a chain reaction crash in front of
her sent one of the vehicles crashing into hers.
Police say 1997 Lexus, driven by 17-year old
Brooks Riley Matthews of Niceville, crossed the center line and hit another
vehicle head on causing a third and fourth crash. Matthews was seriously
injured and transported to Fort
Walton Beach Medical
Center.
The driver of the second car was not hurt while
the driver of the third vehicle, 19-year-old Maxwell Truman Chambers of Marietta, Georgia
was taken to Sacred
Heart Hospital
in critical condition.
Zehr, in the fourth vehicle, with minor injuries
was not taken to the hospital. Her
passenger, 56-year-old Donald Richard Zehr, also of Defuniak Springs, was not
injured.
The Florida Highway Patrol charged the teenage
driver with Failure to Maintain
Lane of Travel.
ONE DEAD IN WEEKEND SHOOTING
A weekend shooting has left one man dead. Okaloosa
County deputies were called to The New
Green Frog, and adult entertainment club, on North Santa Rosa Boulevard in Fort Walton Beach around
3:30 a.m. Sunday morning after callers reported hearing a series of gunshots
near the business.
21-year-old Timothy Stocker Jr. of 100 Harbeson Avenue
in Fort Walton Beach
had fled into the entry way bleeding profusely.
Investigators say Stocker was transported Fort Walton Beach Medical
Center mortally wounded
where he died from multiple gunshots.
Anyone with information on the crime is asked to
contact the OCSO at 850-651-7400.
News Segment 3
WEEKEND FIRES
Two weekend residential fires kept area
firefighters extremely busy. The first fire occurred Saturday in the
inlet beach area around 3:30 pm at a home on Sand Pine Loop. Officials say
lightning may have started the blaze. The structure suffered significant
damages but no injuries were reported.
The second fire was reported at around 10:30 am
Sunday in the Miramar
Beach area. Firefighters
responded to an unoccupied 1,200 sq. ft residential town home to a working
fire. Crews were able to prevent the fire from spreading and quickly
extinguished the blaze. The unit suffered smoke and fire damages crews were able
to prevent the fire from spreading to other homes.
The cause of both blazes remains under
investigation.
WOMAN ARRESTED IN MAIL THEFT
An Alabama woman
is in serious trouble after stealing U.S. Mail from people’s mailboxes in the
Samson, Alabama
area.
37-year-old Alicia Chase of Opp, was arrested and
charged with three felony counts of possession of a forged instrument. The
charges stem from checks which police believe were stolen from mailboxes of local
Samson residences. Two of the forgery charges stemmed from mail stolen from a
residence on Travelers Rest Road
and another on Columbus Holley
Road. The forgery charges are the result of checks
stolen from the mailboxes and then forged and cashed locally.
Samson Police Investigator Jimmy Hill say
police found records and a lot of the mail in a book bag and ledgers with
several people’s names, dates of births and social security numbers where Chase
was getting it off their mail. “When we
interviewed her, she confessed to everything,” Hill said. “She said it was just
a drug-induced fetish. She’d just get people’s mail and get anything she could
out of it.”
Police believe the thefts and forgeries were
likely drug motivated, specifically by meth usage. Hill said one victim who had
checks stolen from their mailbox had a check cashed at a local store in Samson.
Police arrested Chase last week after they found her hiding inside a building in Samson. She was booked into Geneva County Jail where she remains held on bail totaling $75,000.
News Segment 4
MAN CRUSHED BETWEEN CARS IN CRASH
A man remains in critical condition this morning
at Baptist Hospital
in Pensacola
after a horrific accident in South Walton County Sunday afternoon.
State Troopers say 62-year-old Christopher Dickinson of Santa Rosa Beach was crushed while standing between two cars at Hwy. 98 and County Road 283 about 1:30 yesterday.
Dickinson
was a passenger in a separate vehicle that had just been involved in a previous
crash. While the drivers of the first two vehicles were exchanging information,
a 2006 Mazda struck the rear of one of the stopped vehicles. The drivers jumped
out of the way just in time but Dickinson
was pinned between the two front cars upon impact. As the first vehicle rolled forward, Dickinson fell free onto
the pavement.
He was rushed to Pensacola’s
Baptist Hospital where he underwent emergency
surgery and remains in the surgical intensive care unit in critical condition
this morning.
Troopers charged 36-year-old Emily A. Hoyt of Covington, Kentucky
with Careless Driving.
GAS PRICES DIP ANOTHER 6 CENTS
The oil price plunge continues to place downward pressure on prices at the pump. Gas prices in the southeastern U.S. have fallen 5-6 cents in the past week, and more than 20 cents in the past month. The average price of gasoline has declined 21 cents during a period of 33 consecutive days in Florida.
"Gas prices are falling with very little resistance," said Mark Jenkins, spokesman, AAA - The Auto Club Group. "Oil prices are forecast to remain at this level through the rest of the year. If that happens, and there are no supply issues, markets could see $2 gasoline again this fall.
The current average price of $2.45 is the lowest since March 26; 6 cents lower than a week ago, 22 cents less than a month ago, and 93 cents cheaper than a year ago. Gas prices have fallen 51 of the last 52 days.
Obituaries - Listen in the morning, just after noon and the 4pm hour
Mrs. Agnes May Sherrer, age 78, passed away Saturday, August
8, 2015. Visitation 6:00~8:00 PM, Sunday at Clary-Glenn Funeral Home Chapel; 230 Park Avenue, Defuniak
Springs, Florida.
Burial will follow in the Eden Cemetery in Crescent
City, Florida. You
may go online to view obituaries, offer condolences and sign guest book at www.clary-glenn.com. Clary-Glenn Funeral
Home is entrusted with the arrangements.
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