Updated: 10:35 PM Detectives say an elementary school teacher told the children it was a game, but once inside his third-grade classroom, he blindfolded them, gagged them and set cockroaches crawling on their faces.
Posted: 11:57 PM President Barack Obama's re-election campaign identified its top fundraisers on Tuesday, including 61 people who each raised at least half a million dollars.
Posted: 4:50 PM The Dow fell 21 points on Tuesday to close at 12,632.
Posted: 6:39 AM Law enforcement officers and local leaders were in Jackson County Monday learning how they should respond if someone ever pulls a gun at a public gathering. The event included a mock shooting, much like what actually happened a year ago in Bay County.
Posted: 4:30 PM The Dow Jones industrial average fell seven points to close at 12,654, a drop of 0.1 percent.
Posted: 2:33 PM While Men Received More DUI's than Women in 2010, the Number of Men Charged Dropped 10%, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Posted: 11:19 PM BP officials warned in an internal email conversation that if the well was not protected by the blow-out preventer at the drill site, crude oil could burst into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of 3.4 million gallons a day, an amount a million gallons higher than what the U.S. government ultimately estimated spilled daily from the site.
Posted: 11:08 PM Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is acknowledging publicly for the first time that a Pakistani doctor provided key information to the U.S. in advance of the successful Navy SEAL assault on Osama bin Laden's compound last May.
Posted: 11:05 PM The former Penn State assistant football coach charged with child molestation asked for court permission Friday to see his grandchildren, visits currently prohibited under his bail conditions.
Posted: 10:51 PM Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz was given a pay package worth roughly $16 million in the company's 2011 fiscal year.
Updated: 5:10 PM The Dow fell 74 points, or 0.6 percent, to 12,660.
Updated: 8:37 AM There's a growing controversy over a boat ramp in Jackson County. County commissioners reopened it to the public, after the landowner blocked access.
Posted: 11:04 PM A judge has ruled that a city council candidate in Arizona must be removed from the ballot due to lack of English proficiency.
Posted: 10:51 PM A federal judge has ruled that the rig owner involved in drilling the ill-fated well that blew out in the Gulf of Mexico was shielded by its contract with BP from having to pay many pollution claims in the nation's largest offshore oil spill.
Updated: 11:18 PM Newt Gingrich cast Mitt Romney as the most anti-immigrant candidate of the four contenders for the Republican presidential nomination in campaign debate Thursday night.
Updated: 7:17 PM The "Wheel of Fortune" wasn't the only thing spinning for Pat Sajak and Vanna White back in the day.
Posted: 9:24 PM Twitter now says it has the technological ability to censor individual tweets or accounts in different countries.
Updated: 10:32 PM Sometimes you have to use whatever is available to defend yourself, your home and property -- and your loved ones. Even, if that means a bedpost.
Posted: 4:28 PM The Dow closed down 22 points, or 0.2 percent, at 12,735.
Posted: 10:58 AM One new poll in Florida's volatile presidential primary race showed that former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich has moved into a dead heat with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney even as another suggested Gingrich's momentum has faded.
Updated: 8:55 AM The city of Marianna is in its final phase of an aggressive road reconstruction project spanning several years. It first started in 2008, and when all is said and done. The city says this series of projects will have affected about a quarter of its roads.
Posted: 10:27 PM Timothy Geithner said Wednesday that he doesn't expect to serve a second term as Treasury secretary. He said he doesn't think President Barack Obama would ask him to remain if Obama won re-election.
Posted: 9:28 PM Apple briefly surpassed Exxon as the most valuable U.S. company after an excellent quarter, though the oil company has regained the lead at the market's close.
Posted: 8:49 PM The Federal Reserve's announcement that it is unlikely to raise its benchmark interest rate until late 2014 is simply its "best guess," Ben Bernanke said Wednesday.
Posted: 7:56 PM A proposal by two eastern Kentucky lawmakers would make it a felony not to report the disappearance of a child 12 or younger within 12 hours.
