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Milton, FL - Officials with Florida Division of Forestry’s Blackwater Forestry Center urge caution when using fireworks during Independence Day celebrations due to high fire danger in the area caused by dry conditions. |
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Written by Jay Cope, NAS Whiting Field Public Affairs
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 With a few short speeches and a ceremonial slice of the red, white, and blue ribbon, the new Naval Air Station Whiting Field air traffic control tower was dedicated. Following nearly three years of planning and construction, the new tower officially opened June 19, 2009. |
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 Michael Jackson, the show-stopping singer whose best-selling albums -- including "Off the Wall," "Thriller" and "Bad" -- and electrifying stage presence made him one of the most popular artists of all time, died Thursday, CNN has confirmed. full story
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Pledging to empty the prison camps at Guantánamo, the man entrusted with the mission at Ground Zero is a fellow graduate of the president's Hawai’i high school whose family has served a commander in chief for three generations. Rear Adm. Thomas Copeman III took over Friday as the ninth commander of the detention and interrogation center that opened at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba in January 2002. His father and grandfather served in the Navy before him, one in Vietnam, the other in World War II. Now, if the Pentagon executes the president's order to close the center by Jan. 22, Copeman will be the last commander.
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Written by Navy Times
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One in eight troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan from 2006-08 were referred for counseling for alcohol problems after their post-deployment health assessments, according to new data from the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center. Service members complete their initial health assessments within 30 days of returning home.
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One week after the first case of Swine Flu (H1N1) was confirmed at NAS Pensacola, the director of public health (at Naval Hospital Pensacola) says the outbreak is under control. As we first told you, 22 sailors have the flue and others are experiencing symptoms. |
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty announced that the Office of Insurance Regulation (Office) and the German Bundesanstalt für |
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