Jordan West

July’s full moon, the Buck moon, rises on Sunday, July 21.BUCK MOONThe Algonquin tribe called this moon the Buck Moon because new antlers pushed out of the deer foreheads early summer. With clear skies, the full moon will shine brightest at 5:17 a.m.The full moon is also called the Thunder moon due to the typical afternoon thunderstorms in the summer.The Buck moon is the seventh full moon of the year, followed by Sturgeon Moon on Aug. 19 and the Harvest Moon (a supermoon) Sept. 18. JULY’S METEO…

Three people were seriously injured Friday after multiple shark attacks along the Gulf Coast.Around 1:20 p.m., the Walton Co. Sheriff’s Office reported that a 45-year-old woman was injured in a shark attack in Founders Lane at Watersound Beach, Florida. The woman, who had reportedly swam past the beach’s first sandbar with her husband, suffered “significant trauma to her midsection and pelvic area” and lost the lower portion of her left arm, according to the South Walton Fire District.She was im…