High speed chase begins at triathlon site ends with arrest
PANAMA CITY BEACH -- A Panama City Beach man is accused of leading police on a high-speed chase early Sunday morning after nearly striking an officer at an Ironman triathlon site. Perma Benson, 32,...
View ArticleAccused killer to argue insanity
PANAMA CITY — The Lynn Haven man charged with killing his wife will attempt to convince a judge he was insane at the time and couldn’t understand the crime was wrong. Gary Wesley Tennyson, 36, was...
View ArticleFormer Panama City Beach auxiliary officer sentenced to jail
PANAMA CITY — A former auxiliary officer for the Panama City Beach Police Department was sentenced to a year in the county jail Monday after pleading no contest to charges stemming from sexually...
View ArticleNew report blasts state over child abuse deaths
TALLAHASSEE — A scathing new report is critical of the state's efforts to prevent child abuse deaths across Florida. The Department of Children and Families on Tuesday released a report prepared by a...
View ArticleStudent arrested after unloaded gun found at Blountstown school
BLOUNTSTOWN — A handgun was discovered at Blountstown High School Tuesday. The Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office reported that Blountstown High School Principal Debbie Williams found an abandoned...
View ArticleTearful defendant goes to trial
PANAMA CITY — When they tipped the van back onto its wheels after the crash, beer poured out of the passenger side door, according to a police officer who was involved in the traffic homicide...
View ArticleDriver guilty of DUI manslaughter, says it wasn't his fault
PANAMA CITY — A Panama City man could face up to 15 years in prison after a jury found him responsible for a fatal crash last winter on the Hathaway Bridge and convicted him Wednesday of DUI...
View ArticleSuspect arrested in shooting
PANAMA CITY -- A suspect has been arrested in a shooting that happened Sunday, Panama City police said Wednesday. Arrested was Jamichael D. Middleton, 21. Middleton is being charged with one count of...
View ArticleMan arrested on drug charges
PANAMA CITY BEACH -- A Panama City Beach man was arrested Wednesday morning in connection with a narcotics investigation. Police had been looking into allegations that John M. Joslin, 40, had been...
View ArticlePolice shoot former football star
DAYTONA BEACH — Moments before being shot six times by police, former football star Jermaine Green held his girlfriend in a choke hold with his left arm and his right hand gripped a large knife that...
View ArticleBCSO: Local man taped unsuspecting women in restaurant bathroom
PANAMA CITY BEACH — A man’s wife turned him in after she found a tape of women in various states of undress in the restroom at Pineapple Willy’s on Panama City Beach, investigators said Thursday....
View ArticleDocuments: Bullet hit victim's left index finger
PANAMA CITY - An as yet unidentified victim apparently got very luck when Jamichael Middleton started shooting at him. According to a warrant issued for Middleton's arrest and obtained by The News...
View ArticleBonifay man arrested for child pornography
BONIFAY - The Florida Department of Law Enforcement Tallahassee Regional Operations Center, with assistance from the Holmes County Sheriff’s Office, arrested Andrew James Herbert, Jr., 31, of Bonifay...
View ArticleMan dies in house fire
ESTO -- An Esto man died in a house fire Wednesday morning in northern Holmes County. At 6:18 a.m. Wednesday, the Holmes County Communications Center received a call of a mobile home fire on State 2,...
View ArticleSelf-proclaimed klansman arrested with BB gun at bar
PANAMA CITY BEACH -- A man who told officers he was an active member of the Ku Klux Klan made a threatening comment toward police after being arrested Wednesday night for carrying a BB gun in a Panama...
View ArticlePCPD investigating Thursday night shooting
PANAMA CITY — The Panama City Police Department is investigating a Thursday night shooting that occurred at Oliver’s Upholstery on East Avenue. Around 9 p.m., a store employee was shot at multiple...
View ArticleWoman charged in mother’s identity theft
MARIANNA — A Jackson County woman was arrested Wednesday and charged with open several credit accounts in her mother’s name. Patty Thames was charged with four counts of criminal use of personal...
View ArticleTransient man charged in stabbing at motel
PANAMA CITY BEACH -- A night of drinking and flirting with women at a Panama City Beach motel ended with one homeless man stabbing another earlier this week, according to a police report. Officers...
View ArticleMan arrested on drug charge at nightclub
PANAMA CITY BEACH — A man accused of trying to sell drugs at a Panama City Beach nightclub was arrested early Monday morning. Police responded about 2:21 a.m. to Spinnaker Beach Club at 8795 Thomas...
View ArticleFire guts home in Parker // VIDEO
PARKER — A large fire gutted a home in Parker’s Donalson Estates neighborhood Friday afternoon. No injuries were reported. The Parker Fire Department responded about 1:30 p.m. to the one-story house...
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