Updated: 12:27 PM Got your house and yard squared away after the hurricanes? You're lucky. The state still has a lost boat.

Updated: 8:03 PM You need to stock your candy bowl a day early in Bay County for early trick-or-treaters.

Updated: 8:00 PM Students, it's time to get out your red t-shirts and ribbons for this year's Red Ribbon Week.

Updated: 7:57 PM Twice a year the Junior Service League allows about 600 children from Bay County to pick out new clothes.

Updated: 6:49 PM David Jackson has abruptly resigned as the DIB Executive Director, effective Friday.

Updated: 4:04 PM Many area voters aren't taking any chances with their ballot. They're voting early or by absentee.

Updated: 3:44 PM This years Olympic Games are over, and now it's time for the victory tour.

Updated: 3:06 PM Sheriff's officials in Jackson County have been on the look out for a South Carolina couple suspected in a rash of mailbox thefts. They say the pair may be pulling off one of the oldest scams in the book.

Posted: 12:00 PM Former congressmen and U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam, Pete Peterson, met with veterans in Marianna this week to dispute claims about Democrat John Kerry's war record.

Updated: 10:25 AM The end of the summer season usually signals the start of higher unemployment in Northwest Florida. But, that doesn’t seem to be the case this year.

Updated: 9:16 AM With less than two weeks to go before the election, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement has launched a statewide investigation into voter fraud.

Updated: 8:59 AM Charges have been reduced against a second lower-level defendant accused of filming underage spring break visitors baring their bosoms for the ``Girls Gone Wild'' video series.

Updated: 7:59 AM Investigators found one of Bay County's largest methamphetamine laboratories when a woman accidentally dialed 9-1-1 and hangs up.

Updated: 6:44 PM A search teams recovered the body of the paramedic who died when an air ambulance crashed into Choctawhatchee Bay Wednesday morning.

Updated: 6:04 PM The Bay County Commissioners decision to impose building height restrictions on just the west end of the local beach, has led to a lawsuit being filed late Thursday.

Updated: 5:48 PM In Bay County, inmates identified as high risk could also receive a flu shot this season.

Updated: 5:43 PM An early morning fire on the eastside of Panama City leaves one person dead and another injured.

Updated: 5:41 PM With only 12 more days of voting, the political advertising campaigns are in full swing. But the negative ads aren't just coming from parties or candidates. People unaffiliated with any campaign are using their money to get the word out.

Updated: 4:46 PM The numbers are in on the devastation Hurricane Ivan wreaked on Pensacola Beach in Escambia County.

Updated: 12:31 PM After years of anticipation, their new school finally opens this week. It's been a long time coming.

Updated: 12:33 PM Eleanor Maebelle Barnes Gallops Plant died Tuesday in Florida's Panhandle. The Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group says the woman known as “Granny Plant” was the ninth oldest person in the United States.

Updated: 10:37 PM The campaign for Florida's 2nd congressional seat has taken another nasty turn.

Updated: 10:39 PM A medical helicopter from Sacred Heart Hospital in south Walton County crashed during the early morning hours Wednesday and the three people on board were killed.

Updated: 5:18 PM Cedar Grove's financial future is looking brighter, even after years of shady political scandals and huge debt.

Updated: 4:38 PM A visitor to the Emerald Coast area is the victim of an apparent accidental drowning in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday afternoon.