Posted: 3:08 PM Southeast Alabama health officials are investigating a mysterious respiratory illness.

Updated: 2:50 PM A Panama City attorney goes before a judge on Thursday. Officials say Bill Price has criminal charges for violating a court order that told him not to pursue certain lines of questioning during a recent trial involving Julianna Ellzey.

Posted: 11:52 AM The Escambia County Sheriff's Deputies are looking a missing kayaker and his dog who haven't been seen in ten days.

Updated: 2:51 PM Two young children were discovered alone inside a car outside of Coyote Ugly Saloon on Front Beach Road at midnight Wednesday night.

Posted: 11:25 AM This week's Golden Apple award winner teaches kindergarten at Lynn Haven Elementary school. Karrie Garrett was nominated by Stacey Ellis, a parent, who writes: "Mrs. Garrett loves her students and it shows! She makes each one of them feel very special! Mrs. Garrett is not only a great teacher, but also a wonderful person!"

Updated: 9:48 AM The Beach Optimist Club as awarded the Panama City Beach Police Department three employees for their exceptional service.

Updated: 9:49 AM Hundreds of Millions of dollars in property is sitting in a high security vault in the state capital waiting for owners to claim. The state is about to auction off the goods. But that still doesn’t mean all is lost.

Posted: 6:38 PM It's Emergency Medical Services Week. A time when paramedics get a much deserved pat on the back.

Updated: 5:32 PM For many of us missing a day of work or school is no big deal but for one Laurel Hill School senior it is. Chelsea Smith has not missed a day of school for the past thirteen years.

Posted: 3:16 PM The Bay County Grand Jury indicted three people Wednesday in the torture and murder of an elderly Northshore/Lynn Haven man.

Updated: 9:50 AM Hundreds of Panama City Beach elementary school students take home a backpack filled with food each weekend, but what about in the summer time when school's out?

Updated: 5:31 PM The Bay County Sheriff's Office is celebrating 100 years of service. Hundreds gathered at Tommy Oliver stadium in Panama City to commemorate the anniversary which coincides with the county's centennial celebration.

Updated: 9:03 AM After standing watch for almost a century, the historic Chipley water tower was taken apart piece by piece.

Updated: 9:31 PM Bay County firefighters and Florida Forest Firefighters spent most of the afternoon fighting a large woodland and bush fire in northern Bay County’s Sand Hills.

Updated: 9:05 AM Jackson county students will be getting a new wardrobe. School board members took up the issue of uniforms at their meeting this afternoon and voted 3-2 for the outfit overhaul.

Updated: 8:41 PM Bay County commissioners approved a measure for dredging by setting up a special taxing district or MSBU for the Kings Point community.

Updated: 8:42 PM The Gulf County School District is facing a budget shortfall of more than $850, 000 for the upcoming school year, and that's forcing the district to make some tough decisions. School board members have had a full year to try and come up with some solutions for the lack of funding next year.

Updated: 8:40 PM Commissioners postponed a closed door meeting on the defunct Redpine company. Redpine's owner claimed the company could create more than 400 jobs for Bay County.

Updated: 8:41 PM It often takes tragedy, like the deadly EF-5 tornado for us to make sure we're ready for a disaster.

Updated: 8:41 PM The Walton County Sheriff's Office has launched a team of officers on a new set of wheels. They've turned in their patrol cars for police bikes.

Updated: 5:40 PM Florida teachers could see raises as soon as July first under the budget signed by Governor Rick Scott. State lawmakers fought Scott over whether the raises would be merit based as they wanted or across the board. The Governor won, but not on the final amount.

Updated: 5:43 PM In the wake of the Sandy Hook School Massacre, Florida School Boards asked state lawmakers for an additional ten million dollars to station armed police officers at every school.

Posted: 4:55 PM The texting and driving bill made it to Governor Scott’s desk Tuesday afternoon. If he signs, it will outlaw it across the state for the first time.

Posted: 4:27 PM The Bay County Sheriff's Office is hosting a benefit dinner Tuesday night for a deputy who was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident.

Updated: 5:48 PM Governor Scott signs bill to expand early voting days