Updated: 1:50 PM Do you live in Northwest Florida and need help paying your electric bill?

Posted: 12:13 PM Tourism leaders in the Port St. Joe area say the recreational scallop season provides a crucial summer tourism boost.

Posted: 12:07 PM The proposal covers just 30 of Florida's 67 counties.

Posted: 12:02 PM The money is part of a plan to spend $300 million on projects to help boost Georgia's home-grown water supply.

Posted: 10:31 PM Gov. Rick Scott promised adequate funding for nursing homes at a conference for providers of elderly care, but protesters criticized his opposition to President Obama's health care overhaul and his refusal to enforce some of its provisions.

Updated: 10:12 PM A central Florida judge says he's staying on the case of a neighborhood watch volunteer charged with killing an unarmed teenager.

Posted: 11:08 AM The hunter safety course is required for people born on or after June 1, 1975, to purchase a Florida hunting license.

Posted: 11:01 AM The shot clinic will be held at the Bay County Health Department Auditorium.

Posted: 10:53 AM A motor vehicle with an expired tag resulted in the arrest of five people in connection with a meth lab.

Posted: 3:29 AM The Florida Sheriffs Association has elected its first female president, Highlands County Sheriff Susan Benton.

Posted: 9:35 PM Authorities say a 30-year-old woman sold a baby boy for a 1999 Dodge Dakota truck in Kentucky and then fled to Florida.

Updated: 10:19 PM The Walton County Sheriff’s Office has recently seen an increase in the number of auto burglaries.

Posted: 4:47 PM Gov. Rick Scott is having trouble again with his email.

Posted: 4:43 PM The Bay County Health Department will conduct a Back to School Shot Program August 6-10 and August 13-15, 2012, from 8:00am-11:00am and 1:00pm-3:30pm.

Posted: 4:41 PM Due to a sewage spill in the Seascape area of Walton County the Walton County Health Department is issuing a health advisory from Legion County Park west to Bay Bridge Landing in the Choctawhatchee Bay.

Posted: 4:40 PM The Walton County Health Department conducts regularly scheduled saltwater beach water quality monitoring at seven sites through the Healthy Beaches Monitoring Program.

Posted: 11:15 AM 20-year old Tori Scott of Fort Walton Beach is charged with trafficking in cocaine and other crimes.

Posted: 2:11 AM The settlement of a deceptive practices lawsuit filed by the state requires a Miramar-based nursing school to pay at least 67 students $469,000 in restitution.

Posted: 9:56 PM The judge presiding over the case of a Florida teenager set on fire by middle school classmates has stepped aside from the case.

Posted: 9:51 PM Authorities say a man who struggled while swimming with friends and then went under at a central Florida lake has been found dead.

Posted: 4:52 PM A Destin man accused of pulling a knife on employees at a Destin Commons business is charged with armed robbery by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.

Posted: 4:40 PM Early voting begins for five counties in Florida.

Posted: 11:37 AM Two residents of Jackson County and one resident in Alabama are receiving rabies vaccine as a precautionary measure.

Updated: 11:34 AM Tuition for high school students wishing to take college-credit courses through the ACCELERATE program has been reduced by 50 percent.

Posted: 11:13 AM 19 year old John C. Kearley of Dothan was pronounced dead at the scene.