Updated: 2:07 PM The unemployment rate fell again last month for the fourth straight month as employers increased their hiring.

Updated: 8:39 PM Panama City - This week's Golden Apple award winner is a kindergarten teacher at Northside Elementary in Panama City. Kelly Lewis has been teaching kindergarten for 8 years. Her students are affectionately known as "Lewis' Lightning Bugs" because thier faces light up when learning something new.

Updated: 7:51 PM Rocking BAB Ranch in DeFuniak Springs is home to miniature donkeys, sheep, and even camels, but it's the exotic peacocks who really rule the roost. Joshua Nelson and his family raise 55 different varieties and export them all over the world.

Updated: 9:04 AM Chipley - This week's Golden Apple award winner teaches advanced placement and honors English at Chipley High School. Belinda Collins' students say she is a demanding teacher, but they also say striving to meet her high expectations has made them better students.

Posted: 5:56 PM A world famous recording artist is helping the South Walton Tourist Development Council sell the area.

Updated: 8:39 PM Communications giant AT&T is helping a local organization support our troops overseas.

Updated: 8:13 PM Panama City- woman driving a caravan plowed through Enzo's Pizza at the corner of Beck and 14th Street in St. Andrews around 2:45 Sunday afternoon.

Posted: 2:50 PM Orlando officials and gay advocates expect a rush of same-sex couples at City Hall when a new domestic-partnership registry opens next month.

Updated: 8:51 AM Panama City - This week's Golden Apple winner is an 8th grade science teacher at Mowat Middle School in Lynn Haven. Studies show when it comes to math and science, kids in the US are trailing other nations. Shawn Ramsey wants to change that.

Updated: 7:51 PM If the Payroll Tax Cut is not extended, what it means for you?

Posted: 6:05 PM New study suggest, adults get stuck with lousy Christmas gifts.

Updated: 8:35 AM Panama City - Come December 24th a Southport man will don his santa suit, jump in his "sleigh" and make Christmas merry for Northwest Florida's neediest children. He's been known as the "Southport Santa" for 33 years, and 5 years ago the nickname became more than that.

Updated: 10:47 AM The State Board of Education voted Monday to adopt new achievement levels for the F-CAT 2.0 exam, including more stringent cut scores for tenth grade reading.

Updated: 8:27 PM Panama City - This week's Golden Apple winner is a kindergarten teacher at Hiland Park Elementary School. Diane Reinstatler says herself, she has a lot of energy. After nearly 20 years in a kindergarten classroom, she has no plans for slowing down.

Updated: 10:16 AM A Florida woman who vanished two decades ago while facing prison time walked into a county office to request a state ID - in her own name.

Posted: 10:00 AM Mexico Beach Police are investigating a shooting that happened Sunday evening.

Posted: 10:14 AM Opponents of expanded gaming are getting a big boost tonight. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam are joining their fight.

Posted: 10:15 AM Members of the Community Resource Task Force are making it clear the organization will not be providing food and shelter for the homeless.

Posted: 10:15 AM The final Panama City Beach Council Meeting of 2011 drew a full house and the divisive Aaron Bessant Park renovation project dominated the majority of the discussion.

Posted: 10:26 AM Grand Ridge - This week's Golden Apple award winner is a third grade teacher at Grand Ridge Elementary in Jackson County. Ashley Pelt may only be in her second year teaching, this is actually her first year with her own classroom, but colleagues say she has the skills and talent of someone who's been teaching for decades.

Updated: 10:25 AM Panama City Beach - Pearl Harbor Day is the day our nation remembers the attacks that prompted the US to join World War II. The events of that day, 70 years ago, inspired World War II veteran Joseph Limberg to become an Air Corps cadet. He flew 55 combat missions in Europe. Limberg, who now lives in Panama City Beach, will formally receive a French combat medal this weekend for his heroics.

Posted: 9:50 AM Panama City Beach- Volunteers with the 'Toys For Kids' foundation went on a $20,000 shopping spree at the Panama City Beach Walmart Sunday. The 9th annual event is helping to spread Christmas joy to the underprivileged kids in Bay County.

Posted: 9:49 AM A federal analysis shows the Gulf oil spill probably won't impact an endangered tuna population as badly as some scientists had feared.

Posted: 9:48 AM An altercation at the Holiday Inn Saturday night lead to the death of a man visiting the beach from Tampa, after police say he either jumped or fell from the 7th floor.

Updated: 8:51 PM Vernon - This week's Golden Apple award winner runs the Ag department at Vernon High School. Donna Keith began her teaching career in the English department. But when Vernon High needed a new Ag teacher, she jumped at the chance. Her students say they are glad she did.