Water level rises at Deer Point but no major problems reported
SOUTHPORT — Water levels at the Deer Point dam have begun to recede, but not before they topped out at 7 feet last week. The lake level was at 6.2 feet Monday morning, still well above its normal 5...
View ArticleUPDATE: Police release IDs of 3 dead after hotel shooting
PANAMA CITY — Police have released the names of two people gunned down Sunday night outside a hotel and the man suspected of shooting them. Johnny Floyd Graham, 57, of Wilson, N.C., and Vikitha Marcel...
View ArticleChild hospitalized after near drowning
PANAMA CITY BEACH - A 12-year-old girl was taken to the hospital after a near drowning, officials said Monday afternoon. The Bay County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call reporting a missing...
View ArticleVictims and suspect had troubled history
PANAMA CITY — A man who died in a shootout with police early Monday was in the middle of a divorce, was out on bond for threatening his wife with a gun, and he had become “progressively more violent”...
View ArticleUPDATE: Police release IDs of 3 dead after hotel shooting
PANAMA CITY — Police have released the names of two people gunned down Sunday night outside a hotel and the man suspected of shooting them. Johnny Floyd Graham, 57, of Wilson, N.C., and Vikitha Marcel...
View ArticleCannibal caught in Lynn Haven found not guilty
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A three-judge panel has found a man not guilty by reason of insanity in the death of a homeless man he admitted to killing and partially eating. Judges deliberated about an hour...
View ArticleTeen dies in Gulf despite rescue attempt
PANAMA CITY BEACH — The efforts of several people were not enough to prevent the death of 13-year-old girl on a church retreat who was pulled from the Gulf of Mexico on Monday afternoon. Jade...
View ArticleSigns of recovery: Hospitalized parasailer is 'bored'
PANAMA CITY — One of the teenagers hurt when she crashed into a condo before falling to the ground in a parasailing accident earlier this month is finding the hospital boring. That’s a positive sign...
View ArticleDefense rests case in George Zimerman trial
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Defense attorneys have rested their case in George Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial after calling 18 witnesses over less than a week. Prosecutors now plan to call two...
View ArticleAccused killer wants statement suppressed
PANAMA CITY — A Springfield man accused of killing his wife and her father, then using her money to buy crack and video games to distract himself, wants a judge to throw out his statements to police....
View Article2 arrested in home burglary
PANAMA CITY BEACH -- Two people from Alabama were arrested in Panama City Beach on Wednesday after allegedly being caught burglarizing a home. About noon, police responded to a home in the 200 block...
View ArticleThe CIA and a secret vacuum cleaner
WASHINGTON (AP) — Confined to the basement of a CIA secret prison in Romania about a decade ago, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the admitted mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, asked his jailers...
View ArticleUPDATE: Cities on guard for any post-Zimmerman unrest
PANAMA CITY — As prosecutors in the George Zimmerman trial gave closing arguments Thursday, customers and employees of Wilson Brothers Barber Shop in Panama City watched quietly on two TVs. And while...
View ArticleJurors start deliberating George Zimmerman case
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — With police and civic leaders urging calm, a jury began deliberating George Zimmerman's fate Friday after hearing dueling portraits of the neighborhood watch captain: a cop...
View ArticleWoman loses $23,000 in phone scam
PANAMA CITY BEACH -- The Bay County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents about a phone scam after a 75-year-old woman was recently defrauded of $23,000. The woman received a phone call in which a man...
View ArticleSlain woman’s family sues
PANAMA CITY — The family of a woman gunned down in her car in a busy shopping center has filed a lawsuit against the man accused of shooting her. The wrongful death suit against Joseph Moody seeks...
View ArticleMan gets 10 years for mortgage fraud
CALLAWAY — An Ohio man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for swindling Florida home buyers out of about $36 million. Akron, Ohio, resident Jack R. Coppenger Jr., 49, pleaded guilty for...
View ArticleZimmerman found not guilty
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — Neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman was cleared of all charges Saturday in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager whose killing unleashed furious...
View ArticleRallies against Zimmerman verdict being held in US
NEW YORK (AP) — From New York to California, outrage over the verdict in George Zimmerman's murder trial poured from street demonstrations and church pulpits Sunday as protesters spoke out against his...
View ArticleInjured parasailer walking again, back in Indiana
A girl critically injured in a Panama City Beach parasailing crash has stood and walked for the first time since the incident, and has returned to her home state. Sidney Good, 17, walked a short...
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