Updated: 11:11 PM The case of an unarmed Florida teenager gunned down by a member of a neighborhood watch group is getting attention across the nation.

Updated: 10:41 AM Good news for avid Internet users in the Panhandle. Surfing the world wide web is expected to get a lot faster in the not-so-distant-future. The Florida Rural Broadband Alliance continues to move forward in the move to bring broadband Internet to eight counties in the Panhandle.

Posted: 11:20 PM Wendy's has dethroned Burger King as the country's second biggest hamburger chain.

Updated: 1:16 AM A senior U.S. official says the soldier accused in the killing of 16 Afghan civilians is Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales.

Updated: 11:36 AM Despite the high price of gas nowadays, some drivers are choosing an alternative that's even more expensive. But that's because it's ethanol-free, and drivers filling up there say the higher price is well worth it in the long run.

Posted: 12:43 AM The U.S. soldier accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan villagers last weekend saw his friend's leg blown off the day before the rampage, his lawyer said Thursday night.

Posted: 12:37 AM The long and increasingly messy Republican presidential contest is starting to hit Mitt Romney where it hurts most: his wallet.

Posted: 3:57 PM A jury found Virginia Tech negligent on Wednesday for delaying a campus warning of the first shootings in a 2007 campus massacre that left 33 dead.

Posted: 2:47 PM Twice as many people insured by Medicaid as by private insurance report barriers to primary care and Medicaid patients are twice as likely to visit the emergency department as their privately insured counterparts.

Updated: 11:40 AM After suffering another dry weather season last year, many are crossing their fingers and praying that this year will bring in a bumper crop.

Updated: 8:26 AM Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. said Tuesday that it will stop publishing print editions of its flagship encyclopedia for the first time since the sets were originally published more than 200 years ago.

Posted: 10:01 PM Mitt Romney collided with rivals Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich on Tuesday in primaries in Alabama and Mississippi, hotly contested Southern crossroads in the struggle for the Republican presidential nomination.

Updated: 4:40 PM The Dow Jones industrial average rose 218 points and closed at its highest level since the end of 2007.

Posted: 4:25 PM The Dow Jones industrial average stayed above its previous close for most of the day Monday, closing up 38 points at 12,960.

Updated: 9:25 AM Marianna is the center of the junior college sports universe this week, as Chipola College hosts the annual men's and women's state bsketball tournament. The event not only showcases some of the top basketball players in the state, it also means big business for Jackson County.

Posted: 4:52 PM The Dow closed up 78 points at 12,837.

Updated: 9:18 AM A couple of animal rescues are trying to save a group of neglected horses that nearly starved to death.

Posted: 12:01 AM President Barack Obama told business leaders Tuesday that the nation needs to reform its tax system to help boost the economy.

Posted: 9:11 PM Food and Drug Administration officials have issued a warning letter to the makers of the inhalable caffeine product AeroShot,

Posted: 5:38 PM Days after they announced a multibillion-dollar settlement, BP PLC and a committee of plaintiffs' attorneys are working out details of an agreement to resolve more than 100,000 claims spawned by the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Posted: 4:19 PM The Dow finished at 12,759.

Posted: 6:09 AM Road crews were out in force making repairs in Jackson County. This weekend's rains caused dozens of washouts and some roads are still flooded. Rain is almost always a good thing. But for rural areas like Jackson County, with almost 900 miles worth for dirt roads, heavy rain often causes mud.

Posted: 11:41 PM A Nebraska woman has sold a three-year-old McDonald's Chicken McNugget that resembles President George Washington for $8,100 on eBay.

Posted: 4:31 PM The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 15 points to 12,963 Monday.

Posted: 11:48 PM Death toll in powerful storms across several states rises to at least 24.