Updated: 8:31 AM Nurse Practitioners will no longer conduct sports physicals at schools in Calhoun and Liberty Counties. The Inspector General of the Florida Health Department wrapped up an investigation over allegations of inappropriate conduct between a nurse practitioner and a Liberty High School student.
Posted: 4:56 PM More than eighty percent of the voters who showed-up for Tuesday’s special election rejected a proposal that would have allowed the city's fire district board the ability to raise a millage cap. Wednesday the fire district commissioners are trying to figure out how they'll manage next year's budget.
Updated: 5:18 PM State and local governments are cashing in on red light camera tickets. Just shy of a million were written in the year that ended June 30th. Some lawmakers tried to get rid of the cameras this past spring, but the cameras will remain but will be a touch more friendlily to motorists.
Updated: 7:36 AM Under a new bill passed through the house and senate, Floridians facing mental illness will be banned from purchasing a gun. Supporters say it will save lives, while medical professionals say it will wrongfully take away second amendment rights for a large group of Floridians.
Updated: 9:01 AM Panama City commissioners make a controversial decision on whether or not the icehouse at the Panama City marina should be moved to St. Andrews.
Updated: 10:29 AM Administrators at Breakfast Point Academy are still trying to find a cheaper solution to alleviate overcrowding. Their plans to add 10 portable classrooms may be limited by wetlands on the campus.
Updated: 9:05 AM Walton County Commissioners considered a full agenda tonight. They are moving forward with the search for a new county administrator and selected a new tourist development council director.
Updated: 6:18 PM Every teacher in the state should receive between $2,500 and $3,500 more a year, but the state did not give local school districts any money to provide raises for para-professionals or non-instructional personnel like bus drivers and cafeteria workers.
Updated: 12:14 AM We've all head how the budget sequester has forced furloughs in the military and among air traffic controllers, but a lot of social programs are suffering as well.
Updated: 5:44 PM Wewahitchka's annual Tupelo festival is this week. It marks the end of theTupelo honey season. But, honey lovers may be in short supply this year.
Updated: 5:33 PM Every year thieves target thousands of welfare recipients stealing their identities and depriving them of the benefits in which they desperately need and Florida leads the nation in this type of identity theft.
Updated: 4:39 PM Around 8:00 Tuesday morning, the Lynn Haven Fire Department was sent to the McDonalds on Highway 77. When the crews arrived the building was filled with smoke.
Updated: 4:42 PM A remarkable story about a Panama City Beach woman. It happened during a dolphin excursion in the British Virgin Islands. Patricia Stoops says one of the dolphins saved her life.
