1 of 2 suspects in PCB ‘gang rape’ out on bond
PANAMA CITY — One of the two Alabama college students charged with what authorities are calling a broad-daylight Spring Break “gang rape” has bonded out of jail while the other remains in custody,...
View ArticleMan sentenced for Christmas Eve robbery
PANAMA CITY — One of a group of men who robbed a local Mexican restaurant on Christmas Eve was sentenced Monday to five years in prison, according to court records. Jose Rios Robledo, 34, was...
View ArticleAP Was There: Original report of Lincoln's assassination in 1865
On the night Abraham Lincoln was shot, April 14, 1865, Associated Press correspondent Lawrence Gobright scrambled to report from the White House, the streets of the stricken capital, and even from the...
View ArticleUPDATE: Man arrested after stabbing that caused brief school lockdown
HILAND PARK — Hiland Park Elementary School was briefly locked down Tuesday while the Bay County Sheriff’s Office searched for the suspect from a stabbing at a gas station in the area. Officers...
View ArticleWanted man arrested in PCB
PANAMA CITY BEACH — Authorities have arrested a Georgia man at his place of employment in Panama City Beach on charges of statutory rape and child molestation, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office...
View Article3 men charged with sex offenses
PANAMA CITY BEACH — Police have arrested two local men for allegedly committing sexual acts upon a minor and a third man for watching, according to a Panama City Beach Police Department news release....
View ArticleSite where rape video was recorded in dispute
PANAMA CITY BEACH — A local nightclub owner has said that while a young woman’s broad daylight sexual battery on Spring Break was tragic, he disputes whether cellphone video from the incident took...
View ArticleDuplex catches fire
PANAMA CITY — Fire crews responded to a duplex fire Wednesday at 1519 Hickory Ave. at about 1:45 a.m., according to a Panama City Fire Department news release. The cause of the fire is under...
View ArticleMan arrested after choking, pistol-whipping pregnant woman
COTTONDALE — A Jackson County man has been arrested on charges he allegedly pistol-whipped his pregnant girlfriend, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office reported. John Ellis Floyd, 35, was arrested...
View ArticleUPDATE: Ex-UF, NFL star Hernandez convicted of murder, sentenced to life
FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for a deadly late-night shooting, sealing the...
View ArticleWoman sentenced in fatal robbery
PANAMA CITY — The case of a murder witness who was left dead for several summer days in a car trunk has reached a conclusion. The final suspect connected with the death of 24-year-old Tavish Greene...
View ArticleStabbing suspect also charged with attempted robbery
HILAND PARK — Additional charges of attempted armed robbery have been brought against a local man accused of stabbing another man in the neck at a gas station, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office...
View ArticleAlleged PCB house party shooter requests public defender
PANAMA CITY — The suspect in a Spring Break house party shooting has yet to be arraigned on the seven attempted murder charges against him, but he appeared in court Wednesday for a pretrial...
View ArticleUPDATE: State Medicaid fraud officials search Bright Pediatrics
PANAMA CITY — Bright Pediatrics was closed briefly Wednesday, as authorities from Florida State Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) searched its offices. The MFCU served...
View ArticleUPDATE: 3rd suspect in PCB Spring Break ‘gang rape’ arrested
PANAMA CITY BEACH — A third college student has been arrested in connection with a group sexual battery of a young woman on Spring Break, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday. George Davon...
View ArticleChipley man arrested on molestation charges
CHIPLEY — Officers have arrested a Washington County man on nine counts of lewd and lascivious molestation of two victims less than 12-years-old, according to an official press release. Washington...
View ArticleOne fatality reported in PSJ bridge accident
PORT ST. JOE — A Gulf County man was killed before dawn Saturday morning during a traffic accident on the Highland View Bridge. Larry Martinez, 38, was traveling west on the bridge on a motorized...
View ArticlePolice nab man with outstanding warrants after attempt to flee
PANAMA CITY — Deputies have arrested an armed man who was wanted on several warrants, according to a Bay County Sheriff’s Office press release. Roderick Devon Wheeler, 21, was arrested Wednesday in...
View ArticleQ&A: Who is this flying mailman with a message for Congress?
RUSKIN (AP) — Many questions surround the political stunt of a postal worker charged Thursday with violating national airspace and operating an unregistered aircraft by landing his gyrocopter on...
View Article4 arrested on drug charges
PANAMA CITY — A group of local residents have been arrested on a litany of drug charges following a traffic stop, according to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office. Fallon Paulk, 28; Kati Blackburn, 30,...
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