Updated: 8:51 AM Fuel in Florida could soon be changing. State lawmakers are pushing a bill that would repeal the Florida Renewable Fuel Standard Act which requires that gasoline come with a certain percentage of ethanol.

Updated: 9:33 PM April is Child Abuse Prevention Month and Big Bend Community Based Care wants the community's help in one of the worst child abuse area's in the state.

Updated: 9:30 PM Hospitals across the Country have been trying to determine how federal budget cuts will effect their operations. The budget sequester has been hitting rural hospitals particularly hard. Monday, administrators from Doctors Memorial Hospital in Bonifay got the chance to voice their concerns to Congressman Steve Southerland.

Updated: 9:31 PM Experts are warning the public on the dangers of Craigslist after an off-duty Panama City Beach Police officer nearly became the victim of an armed robbery.

Updated: 9:33 PM Competition between the area's two big airports is heating up again. Northwest Florida Regional Airport in Okaloosa County is again targeting passengers from across the Florida Panhandle with advertising. But, Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport officials in Bay County said they are not worried.

Updated: 9:34 PM Walton County is narrowing it's search for a new Tourism Development Council Director. The county is replacing Dawn Moliterno, whose resignation becomes effective later this month.

Updated: 8:50 AM The operators of mini storage units in Florida want out from under a requirement that they advertise in a newspaper before they sell someone’s belongings. Instead, they want to just post a notice on the internet, but the idea has plenty of opposition.

Updated: 9:35 PM Drug deaths nationwide are on the rise, but not in Florida. The state is bucking the trend through targeted police work and a prescription drug monitoring database, but more needs to be done to keep the state moving in the right direction.

Updated: 9:34 PM Circuit Judge Michael Overstreet sentenced Jeremiah Paul Cahours to 11 years in prison for a vehicular homicide that took the life of a 22-year-old woman.

Updated: 7:47 AM The Bay County Sheriff’s Office says a off-duty Panama City Beach police officer, trying to buy a laptop for sale on Craigslist, shot a man who tried to rob him instead of selling it.

Posted: 11:27 PM Gunnar Gartner says he would probably be dead if he had not been face down in the sand when he was run over.

Updated: 11:16 PM State Troopers say the right rear tire on the SUV she was riding in began to separate, causing the SUV to overturn several times.

Updated: 11:57 PM The boy suffered some sort of medical distress on Laguna Beach. He was taken to Bay Medical and is now on life support until his organs can be harvested.

Posted: 9:11 PM State Troopers say a motorcyclist was killed when he hit a couple of cars on the Bob Sikes bridge and was then thrown off his bike into Escambia Bay.

Updated: 6:26 PM The Tulsa Health Department has notified 7000 patients, who may have been exposed to hepatitis and HIV simply by visiting one dentist.

Updated: 9:37 PM ZooWorld hosts and Easter egg hunt for more than 100 area children.

Posted: 12:19 PM Florida's craft brewers are pushing to legalize 64-ounce beer growlers.

Updated: 9:13 PM Two of the lawmakers negotiating an immigration overhaul in Congress say a final deal is at hand but caution that the bipartisan group working on a proposal hasn't finished its work.

Updated: 10:29 PM Panama City Marina celebrates the opening day of boating season, by blessing the fleet.

Updated: 9:45 PM A local church teams up with Panhandle Helicopters and drops 10,000 eggs at Hutchison Beach Elementary.

Updated: 9:42 PM State Troopers say Timothy Picklo was picking up a jet ski when he ran over an 18-year-old male lying face down in the sand.

Updated: 12:14 PM State Troopers say Natasha Pascoe was walking along the shoulder of Hwy. 98 Friday night when she was hit by a 2013 Toyota Sequoia.

Updated: 9:03 PM Jake Ebert, a high school senior from Michigan, fell off the balcony of his third floor condo Friday night.

Updated: 7:27 AM Police have set-up a special security tower that allows them to go 25 feet above the crowd to spot problems, and hopefully act as a deterrent to trouble.

Updated: 10:23 PM The latest jobless figures show more people are working in the panhandle. Experts attribute a lot of the increase to seasonal jobs, but there could be hope for job seekers on the horizon.