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.
Updated: 5:32 PM One of Bay County's newest schools is already experiencing major overcrowding. Breakfast Point Academy administrators are struggling with the addition of portable classrooms.
Updated: 4:32 PM Bay County business owners are preparing for what they hope will be a busy summer tourism season. Part of that preparation means hiring additional employees. Experts say job prospects are improving for those looking for work.
Updated: 7:57 PM Springfield commissioners have agreed to add six new firefighters to the department. They've also named a new fire chief earlier today.
Updated: 5:58 PM Two Bay Elementary students in South Walton County got the surprise of their lives this afternoon. They got to see their father, Sergeant Thomas McCoy for the first time in nearly a year.
Updated: 9:29 AM People have been raving about a new diet trick that's causing dramatic weight loss in just three weeks. Its called Human Chorionic Gonadotropin, or HCG- a naturally occurring hormone during adolescences or pregnancy that helps encourage rapid weight loss.
Updated: 5:58 PM Any homeowner in Florida with a mortgage is required to have insurance. If there is a lapse in coverage, the bank or mortgage company will then get lender-placed insurance for the homeowner and most agree the insurance is necessary, not everyone agrees on the amount homeowners are being charged.
Posted: 2:13 PM The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has charged a Mary Esther man with battery, aggravated battery on a pregnant victim, and felony child abuse.
Posted: 8:05 AM A civil liberties organization is waging a legal battle over a law enforcement tool the Panama City Beach Police Department is currently testing.
Updated: 9:30 AM The men responsible for the rescue of an Alabama boy earlier this year are finalists for a medal from the Department of Homeland Security.
Posted: 11:02 PM A group of former students from the Dozier School for Boys in Marianna met this afternoon in Kissimmee. The group claims dozier officials abused, tortured and even murdered classmates over the school's long history of operation.
Updated: 10:59 PM A Panama City man is celebrating after losing nearly 200 pounds and saving his own life. In one and a half years, Wes Chastain changed his lifestyle completely.
Updated: 12:00 PM Family, friends, and firefighters are remembering one young man from Kinard in Calhoun County after a fatal accident earlier this week.