The Bonifay Police Department is investigating a missing juvenile.

The first openly gay candidate elected to the Florida Legislature says he didn't run as a one-issue candidate.

The Florida Highway Patrol will participate in the national Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign beginning Aug. 17 through Sept. 3.

Are residents buying Powerball tickets?

On Friday, August 17, 2012 beginning at 12:30 p.m. a construction company working for the City of DeFuniak Springs will be tying in new water lines in the area of 24th Street and Baldwin Avenue.

Jennifer J. Lee (40) of Destin, Florida, has been sentenced to one year plus one day in federal prison for wire fraud as a result of her filing a fraudulent claim for losses from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The advisories for Bid-A-Wee Beach (site #4), Beckrich Rd (site #5) and Rick Seltzer Park (site #6) have been rescinded. There are no advisories in effect.

A manhole overflowed on the 7400 block of Chipewa Street in Callaway causing a discharge of untreated sewage into a stream which flows into Callaway Bayou.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says the bear was shot multiple times Monday at Tyndall Air Force Base.

FHP says construction worker Frank Thomas Donson, 56, of Pensacola was struck by a pick up truck that drifted into the construction area.

No one has won the Powerball jackpot since June 23.

Heavy rains with slow-moving storms are producing high rainfall totals this morning in Walton County.

One of the top young Scrabble players in the country was kicked out of the board game's national championship tournament in Florida after he was caught hiding blank letter tiles.

A break on a single one-inch metered water service caused damage to one of the westbound lanes of Thomas Drive between Tarpon Street and Joan Avenue.

The Walton County Health Department conducts regularly scheduled saltwater beach water quality monitoring at seven sites through the Healthy Beaches Monitoring Program.

Senator Marco Rubio isn't Mitt Romney's VP pick, like many pundits had predicted, but the legislator from Florida will have another important job soon.

Authorities in Florida apprehend wanted Georgia fugitive.

Shoal River Wayside Park Closed Aug. 20-24

Governor Rick Scott was in his hometown this morning casting his ballot for the Florida primary.

Republican Gov. Rick Scott began the push to rid Florida's voting rolls of illegally registered non-citizens.

Democrats and Republicans are voting in primaries for congressional, legislative and local races.

The Republican National Convention is less than two weeks away and planners are building a quarter-mile long, covered walkway between the two main event locations.

A Miami man who authorities say is responsible for an $11 million Medicare fraud scam has just been added to the list of most wanted fugitives.

Two veteran Republicans, former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson and Florida Rep. John Mica, are facing strong challenges from insurgent conservatives in primary contests that reflect the rift in the GOP between grass-roots conservatives and the party's establishment candidates.

The Bay County's Sheriff's Office arrested two suspects Monday morning possibly connected with a string of car burglaries.