Members of the U.S. Marshals Task Force and Walton County Sheriff’s Office deputies located a stolen car in the parking lot of a Walmart on Saturday. Authorities said when they attempted to take the ...

Eight years before a jury sentenced him to death for two murders and he confessed to three more, Michael Bell spent time at a ...

Dr. George Woods is a neuropsychiatry specialist in California who offered expert testimony in the 2010 case of another death ...

The best criminal justice reporting tagged with "Walton County, Florida," curated by The Marshall Project.

Around 47 percent of people arrested by the agency in June had no criminal charges or convictions against them.

Members of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Multi-Agency Drug Task Force have arrested three Fort Walton Beach men on drug charges, according to an OCSO release. The task force searched a home on ...

Backstreet Boys member Brian Littrell filed a lawsuit against a Florida county, accusing the sheriff’s department of refusing to keep public beachgoers off of his private beach.

Eleven people in Florida, including one in Manatee County, have contracted Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "flesh-eating" bacteria in 2025.

Brazil is Florida’s biggest international trading partner for buying what the Sunshine State sells, and tariffs might make orange juice prices soar.

A Florida county leads the way with a high-tech 911 system that improves emergency response While some states have fully updated to NG911 systems, others are still using legacy 911 systems that ...