The Florida Senate unanimously approved a bill (SB 52) Tuesday that would make texting while driving a secondary offense.

2013 Seabreeze Jazz Festival® to Feature Free Kick-Off Show at Pier Park In Celebration of 15th Anniversary Free Concert Set For Thursday, April 18th from 1-3pm in Food Court Area.

The Bay County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help to locate a local teenager missing since April 13, 2013.

A BP team leader who supervised managers on the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 says he was frustrated by last-minute changes to the drilling project but didn't have any safety concerns before the deadly blast.

A news conference is set for mid afternoon to discuss the arrests and to release more information about the murder.

April 24, 1913 was the day the formation of Bay County was approved by the Florida Legislature.

Residents may drop off their yard debris, household garbage and hazardous waste at no charge and are encouraged to bring recyclable materials as well.

President Barack Obama's budget would raise Medicare premiums for individual retirees making more than $85,000 and couples making more than $170,000.

Reopened Friday after a nearly 50-year hiatus and is sure to quickly become a must-see for tourists eager to drink in the flavor of Havana's freewheeling past...One photo shows Ernest Hemingway, Noel Coward and Sir Alec Guinness when the latter was in town to film "Our Man In Havana" whose author ...Graham Greene wrote: "No Havana resident ever went to Sloppy Joe's because it was the rendezvous of tourists."..the same joint where everyone from Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner to Nat King Cole and Ted Williams once wet their whistles...

Pilot OK after crashing small plane in Ala. lake... Ala trying to regulate payday loan and pawn industries... Carnival: No reimbursement to US for disabled ship... Once-captive panther adjusting to life in the wild... Women deny hiding gun seized in Ga. baby killing... Goats in Athens...

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PANAMA CITY, Fla.-- After seven months of construction, Harley-Davidson of Panama City Beach will be opening its doors of business on, Tuesday, April 16th at 9am. The full service dealership is the first brand new point for Harley-Davidson in three years.

Federal officials are launching an audit into a $1 billion mortgage assistance program in Florida

Rep. Martha Roby’s bill would allow private-sector workers to arrange with their employer to receive paid time off, or “comp time,” for overtime hours worked if they so chose.

Tough new anti-hazing rules at Florida A&M University are coming under fire.

Legislation aimed at forcing online retailers to start collecting sales taxes is making headway in the Florida Legislature.

Gov. Rick Scott has signed into law a bill that expands a current ban on protesting to all types of funerals.

The Florida grandparents of two young boys say the children seem unaware that their parents had kidnapped them and thought their trip to Cuba was just a vacation.

A Tampa Bay area man accidentally ran over his 2-year-old daughter with a riding lawn mower.

It goes against popular belief, but a recent study from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) shows that the southern region of the United States is not the fattest part of the country.

The possibly tainted products were packed Feb. 27 and shipped for distribution and to retail deli stores in Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Florida, Alabama, Oklahoma, Illinois and Tennessee.

A former BP engineer charged with deleting text messages about the company's response to its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico says federal prosecutors have tacked on "farcical" allegations that he also deleted dozens of voicemails.

The event will benefit Destin Charity Wine Auction Foundation to support 14 charities working to improve the lives of children in Northwest Florida.

The meat that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

As a result of a month long investigation, investigators were able to identify suspects involved in both burglaries and recover several items.