Updated: 5:27 PM The state Board of Education is pushing to end what they call social promotion and leaning towards more mandatory retentions.

Updated: 4:45 PM Railroad crews are trying to clean up after a train derailment in Holmes County between Chipley and Bonifay near the Washington-Holmes County line.

Updated: 4:00 PM The best view of Thursday’s presidential inauguration will probably be from your television set unless you're one of the select few invited to the ceremony.

Updated: 3:24 PM An air control unit from the northwest Florida Panhandle is returning to Iraq 14 months after completing a seven-month deployment there.

Updated: 6:20 PM A burglar had the tables turned on him this morning, after a business owner wakes him up.

Updated: 1:33 PM Panama City police are looking for answers surrounding a mysterious man with a gun near a bank.

Updated: 11:18 AM A former U-S Representative from northwest Florida, who is now an author and host of a national television program, plans to expand his media repertoire to include talk radio.

Updated: 10:46 AM Larger impact fees and rising property values aren't keeping developers from pushing ahead.

Updated: 9:02 AM Governor Jeb Bush has unveiled a record 61.6 billion dollar spending plan for next year. It contains millions in tax cuts, including a sales tax holiday, tuition increases, and cuts in benefits to the needy. The Governor says he is ready to defend his tax cuts.

Updated: 8:45 AM Florida Department of Health suspended Dr. Daniel C. Daube's medical license.

Updated: 7:26 PM Suicide happens more often then anyone likes to think about.

Updated: 7:03 PM The Bay County Commission is talking about zoning for high rise condominiums on Panama City Beach again. Tuesday was the first day for the three new commissioners to make a decision about zoning for condos on the west end of Panama City Beach.

Updated: 7:05 PM Bay County commissioners say they talked about storm water problems during the campaign trail and it's not time to do something.

Updated: 4:21 PM In Bay County, there seems to be a growing shortage of affordable housing.

Updated: 4:54 PM A Jackson County man will spend at least the next 25 years in prison for murdering a friend.

Updated: 3:32 PM Two doctors in north Florida have had their medical licenses suspended by the state for allegedly ordering unproved wrinkle treatment.

Updated: 12:49 PM In 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King was killed by an assassin’s bullet. On Monday, many of us here in the Panhandle took time to honor the man whose legacy still lives on.

Updated: 12:43 PM Local counselors say teens are more likely to attempt suicide if they know someone who has already taken their life.

Updated: 12:39 PM There's good news for a Washington County family who's been dealing with a double-dose of heartache.

Updated: 6:47 PM A six-day search for two missing local teens ended Monday the way many had feared, but no one wanted to believe.

Updated: 6:13 PM Local counselors say the grieving process is especially hard when someone close to them commits suicide.

Updated: 5:44 PM Traffic was stopped for at least one hour Saturday night as investigators tried to figure out how a driver ended up going north in the southbound lanes.

Updated: 5:41 PM This weekend a second arrest was made in the case.

Updated: 5:38 PM Residents at a Panama City Beach neighborhood are still going to pay twice what their neighbors pay for water and sewer.

Updated: 5:36 PM Local bikers gathered this Sunday morning to enjoy the good weather and ride, but they also helped some local children in the process.