Updated: 10:13 PM The state had to pay back nearly $600,000 to welfare recipients who were denied welfare aid because they failed or refused to take a drug test.

Posted: 6:20 PM Labor Day weekend begins today. Traffic is heavy and excitement is building as many are looking to get out of town for that last summer trip.

Posted: 1:16 PM Progress Energy Florida is seeking a 6 percent rate reduction for residential customers in 2013 due to lower fuel and purchased power costs.

Updated: 1:14 PM Progress Energy Florida is seeking a 6 percent rate reduction for residential customers in 2013 due to lower fuel and purchased power costs.

Posted: 10:36 AM Deputies say a Keys Energy Services worked was electrocuted as he worked on the roof of a home in the Florida Keys.

Updated: 10:31 AM A high school principal and three women among 89 people arrested by Polk County Sheriff's detectives in an online prostitution sting investigation.

Posted: 9:48 AM An argument between two homeless men living in an abandoned building in the Fort Walton Beach area led to one man stabbing the other twice in the back.

Updated: 4:03 AM Sticky bolts proved too much for a pair of spacewalking astronauts.

Posted: 6:58 PM Circuit Judge Elijah Smiley sentenced William R. Crews to 20 years in prison Thursday after Crews admitted having sexual contact with children while he was a teacher at Deane Bozeman School.

Posted: 6:52 PM Floridians have until Tuesday to seek federal disaster aid for damages caused by Tropical Storm Debby.

Updated: 5:37 PM Staying safe is the number one concern when a tornado strikes. Dothan- Houston County E.M.A officials urge people to sign up for their emergency alert system.

Posted: 2:29 PM Princess Cruise Lines says it has found video evidence showing that one of its ships did not fail to stop and help three Panamanian fishermen adrift in a disabled boat in the Pacific Ocean.

Updated: 12:02 PM Tourism officials are hoping to rebound after the storm with a strong end-of-summer holiday weekend.

Posted: 11:50 AM 31-year-old Brian Robinson is charged with fleeing and eluding police in a boat, boating under the influence and killing an endangered species.

Posted: 7:04 AM The Bay County Sheriff’s Office is currently investigating a transaction at a convenience store in Callaway involving counterfeit money.

Updated: 8:37 AM A possible tornado has been located near Crestview and Baker and is moving to the north. A tornado warning is in effect.

Updated: 4:37 AM A developing tornado was detected near Argyle, moving north at 30 miles per hour.

Updated: 3:21 AM The storm containing the possible tornado is now near Caney Creek and Liberty and continues to move to the north.

Posted: 12:58 AM A fight at an apartment complex in Marianna, Florida leads to three arrests.

Updated: 11:24 PM Charles Keith Sumner, 56, of Thomasville, Georgia, was sentenced to ten years in federal prison today for using the internet to attempt to entice a minor to engage in illicit sexual activity and for traveling in interstate commerce to engage in such illicit sexual activity.

Posted: 11:14 PM The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has charged a man with attacking an elderly person with a wooden club and then stealing his belongings. 57-year old John Filbin, no known address, is charged with aggravated battery on a person 65 or older and robbery with a weapon.

Posted: 11:00 PM On Tuesday August 24th, 2012 at approx. 1:53 a.m. the Jackson County Sheriff's Office received an alarm at Citi Trends located at 4747 Hwy 90 Marianna, Florida. Upon arrival at the business, officers found that the glass to the front door had been broken.

Posted: 10:37 PM An Oct. 12 sentencing date has been set for a teenager convicted in a vicious 2010 head-stomping attack on a girl at a Florida middle school.

Updated: 4:53 PM A man disguises himself as an online advertising company.

Posted: 4:25 PM The advisories for Delwood Beach (site #8), Carl Gray Park (site #9), Beach Drive (site #10) and DuPont Bridge (site #11) have been rescinded. There are no advisories in effect.