Updated: 7:49 AM Bay County commissioners voted Tuesday morning to take over emergency medical services.

Updated: 7:45 PM Great weather Tuesday to skip school, and one group of area students did just that, spending the day partying at the beach. It's all part of the 36th Annual Margaret K. Lewis beach party.

Updated: 8:51 PM Potentially good news for both recreational and commercial fisherman, as well as local property owners.

Updated: 8:46 PM A new study is adding confusion to the argument over the red snapper population in the gulf.The study says there's more fish than the federal government is willing to confirm.

Posted: 4:15 PM The Walton County Sheriff’s Office report a number of vehicle burglaries in the Driftwood subdivision in south Walton.

Updated: 8:32 PM One of the area's premiere shopping centers is undergoing a major expansion. Crews are adding one hundred thousand square feet of retail space to Destin Commons.

Updated: 3:53 PM An administrative judge is ruling that the state was wrong to let a Panhandle track conduct barrel racing.

Posted: 3:26 PM One of the last bills enacted by lawmakers on Friday night provides a half million dollars for a prescription drug database.

Updated: 7:45 PM It’s being called modern-day slavery and is as a 32 billion dollar industry worldwide. Florida is the third most common place in America for human trafficking.

Updated: 8:48 PM Scientists with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission have uncovered a new species of black bass in the southeastern United States. Scientists want to name it the Choctaw bass.

Updated: 2:24 PM State Troopers say 17-year-old Ryan Flowers of Kinard pulled into the path of the tractor trailer on State Road 71 in Calhoun County.

Posted: 10:14 AM Florida sun! It's warm, it's inviting and, as we know, it is very dangerous! Research has found that in the last 40 years, global incidents of melanoma have increased 600%.

Posted: 9:17 AM FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Eleven soldiers from Fort Bragg, N.C., want to say "thank you" to whoever paid for their meal at a Florida Panhandle restaurant.

Posted: 8:37 AM CLEVELAND (AP) -- A frantic 911 call has led police to a house near downtown Cleveland, where three women who went missing a decade ago have been found.

Posted: 8:13 AM Eastern Shipbuilding is continuing is partnership with a Louisiana shipping company.

Updated: 7:57 AM For several years, Bay County commissioners have considered a plan to take over emergency medical services. The final vote on the issue could come tomorrow.

Updated: 9:22 PM Score another court victory for drug sniffing dogs. This time its a Bay County case.

Updated: 12:26 PM Some Miramar Beach residents are fed up with water flooding their backyards. They're blaming new construction behind their homes.

Updated: 7:58 AM Five Florida law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty in 2012, and Monday they were remembered at an annual ceremony at the state capitol.

Updated: 9:37 PM Some people can't get their day started without a cup of coffee. A Port St. Joe man He's started his own coffee company, using the proceeds to help orphans- hoping your morning mug will help him do work all over the world.

Updated: 6:27 PM A Georgia teenager, accused of faking his own death, to escape child sex charges, was in a Bay County courtroom Monday afternoon.

Updated: 7:43 PM Most of the Thunder Beach bikers that hadn't already left town, headed out today. Local businesses are taking a look at their books to see how well they did.

Updated: 5:39 PM After the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in December, State leaders promised that “everything” was on the table when it came to guns and school safety but in the end little was done.

Posted: 2:24 PM Governor Rick Scott is spending three days this week on a tour of schools around Florida to promote the Legislature's passage of a $1 billion increase in education spending, including pay raises for teachers.

Updated: 11:57 AM The Washington County Drug Task Force, consisting of Washington County Sheriff’s Office and Chipley Police Department, reports the arrest of two men following a drug investigation as part of an ongoing marijuana eradication initiative.