Red Cross to share fire safety tips
PANAMA CITY – The American Red Cross volunteers will spend Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which falls on Jan. 20 this year, canvassing neighborhoods in the Glenwood and Cedar Grove areas to share fire...
View ArticleFlorida House panel votes to ban new red-light cameras
TALLAHASSEE — Installation of new red-light cameras would be banned across the state under a bill that passed a key committee in the Florida House Thursday, signaling a renewed debate over the...
View ArticleSex sting raises entrapment issues
The question of entrapment can be a sticky one and it may have snared the prosecution against a Longwood man recently acquitted of charges in a Deltona sex sting. A jury acquitted Michael Llorca, 46,...
View ArticlePolice: Cellphone use at theater led to shooting
WESLEY CHAPEL — Authorities say a man has been arrested on suspicion of shooting two people — one fatally — after an argument over cell phone use at a Florida theater. Pasco County Sheriff's spokesman...
View ArticleBlotter: Just because you’re paranoid …
The Blotter is a look at some of the unusual things that happen on the crime beat in Bay County. A woman called police to report her car had been burglarized overnight. Her purse was taken, but there...
View ArticleRetired police captain shoots, kills moviegoer over texting
WESLEY CHAPEL — An argument over texting in a Florida movie theater ended with a retired Tampa police captain fatally shooting a man sitting in front of him, authorities said. The former police...
View ArticleWoman killed in Holmes County wreck
A 22-year-old Geneva, Ala. woman was killed in a single vehicle wreck in Holmes County Tuesday night, officials wrote in a news release. According to the Florida Highway Patrol Raegan Everett Kelly...
View ArticleTennyson sentenced to 35 years for wife's murder
A Lynn Haven man scheduled for trial Wednesday on a count of second-degree murder for his wife’s slaying in 2012 pleaded no contest and was sentenced to 35 years in prison Tuesday. Gary Wesley...
View ArticleMan charged with molesting child
ALTHA -- An Altha man was arrested this week after a child told her father she had been molested. According to the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office, Charlie James Crenshaw of Altha is being charged...
View ArticleFormer builder sentenced in Walton scam
NICEVILLE -- A former builder has been sentenced to six years and three months in prison for fraud and theft of his ex-wife’s identity, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office. Lawrence Allen Wright,...
View ArticleArmed robbery suspect caught
PANAMA CITY BEACH -- Police arrested a 23-year-old man on suspicion of robbing a gift shop and repeatedly using a stun gun on a clerk who tried to call 911, according to the Panama City Beach Police...
View ArticleSuspect looked to cop for help in caper
PANAMA CITY — A Panama City man’s alleged caper conspiracy was foiled Tuesday when he was arrested because one of the men he enlisted to help rob his employer was a cop. Daniel Norona, 24, approached...
View ArticleUPDATE: Man sentenced in human trafficking case
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A man arrested as part of a kidnapping and human trafficking investigation was sentenced Thursday to one year in prison for transporting a woman across state lines for...
View Article73-year-old man charged with molestation
SPRINGFIELD -- A 73-year-old Springfield man was arrested Wednesday on three counts of lewd and lascivious molestation on a child under 12 years old. Arrested was Bobby Gene Hays, according to the...
View ArticleBCSO issues scam alert over suspicious calls
PANAMA CITY - The Bay County Sheriff’s Office issued a Scam Alert Thursday to inform the residents of Bay County of a new scam that has generated several complaints recently. Bay County residents have...
View ArticleMan charged with murder for crash
PANAMA CITY — Authorities have arrested a man suspected of leading police on a chase that ended in a deadly crash in St. Andrews last spring. Devonte Harp, 20, of Albany, Ga., was booked into the Bay...
View ArticleMan arrested in child sex sting
PANAMA CITY BEACH -- Police arrested a Panama City man for attempting to lure a cop posing as a child into sex, according to the Panama City Beach Police. Richard Edman Philyaw, 33, is charged with...
View ArticleExecution of trooper’s killer rescheduled
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A drug trafficker convicted of killing a North Florida state trooper with a pipe bomb is once again scheduled to die. Gov. Rick Scott on Friday set Paul Augustus Howell’s new...
View ArticleChild porn suspect gets limited web access
PANAMA CITY — A judge granted limited access to the Internet to a Lynn Haven man charged with possession of child pornography. Darius Goodin, 50, needs to be able to access the Internet in order to...
View ArticleBCSO: Wig-wearing robber nabbed // VIDEO
PANAMA CITY — A suspect in a string of robberies by a wig-wearing bandit was arrested Saturday. The Bay County Sheriff’s Office said Raymond Charles Wagner, 35, was charged in connection with several...
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