Jury will hear uncharged allegations
PANAMA CITY — Judge Richard Smoak will allow testimony from local business owners who are expected to say Terry Dubose duped them out of tens of thousands of dollars to avoid personal loses as his...
View ArticleBill boosts penalty for crimes that cross counties
TALLAHASSEE — A person crossing county lines to commit a burglary would be subject to enhanced charges under a bill passed by the Senate Tuesday. The measure (HB 427), which passed 25 to 15, would...
View ArticleProsecution nears finish in bankers’ trial
PANAMA CITY — As the trial of three former leaders of Coastal Community Investments moved into the middle of its second week, jurors appeared to be developing a comfort bred by familiarity. Groups of...
View ArticleProsecutors wrap case against bankers
PANAMA CITY — Charlotte Newby is still paying for her trust in the former CEO of Coastal Community Bank. Newby has mailed a payment every month since she borrowed $140,000 from the bank to buy stock...
View ArticleFlorida jail explosion kills 2 inmates, 3 missing
PENSACOLA — An apparent gas explosion all but destroyed a jail in the Florida Panhandle, killing two inmates, leaving three others missing and injuring more than 180 people inside the building,...
View ArticleBank CFO didn’t know the rules, he said
PANAMA CITY — Terry Dubose rested his defense Thursday against charges that he and two partners conspired to defraud the FDIC without testifying. With the notable exception of an expert witness who...
View ArticleWoman arrested after shooting at ex-husband
PANAMA CITY BEACH — An Alabama woman was arrested early Friday after allegedly shooting the windows out of her ex-husband’s vehicle in the parking lot at Summit Condominiums in Panama City Beach. The...
View ArticleCar burglaries investigated
SOUTHPORT — The Bay County Sheriff’s Office is currently investigating several car burglaries that took place in the area of Kirkland Manor in Southport. The burglaries happened during April and...
View ArticleBanker didn’t read rules, but circulated them
PANAMA CITY — The former chief financial officer of a failed local bank did more than just violate the rules — which he claimed he never even read — of an FDIC program designed to help struggling...
View ArticlePolice seek missing transient
PANAMA CITY BEACH -- Police are asking for help locating a man who has been missing since early Friday morning. Cameron Tyler Smith, 20, was last seen around 6:30 a.m. near the Purple Haze store on...
View ArticleInmate who raped, murdered teen ready for execution // DOCUMENT
PANAMA CITY -- The man convicted of raping and killing a 13-year-old girl and hiding her body under the bed of his motel room wants to fire his attorney and discontinue all appeals of his murder...
View ArticleWoman who drove children into ocean claims insanity // VIDEO
DAYTONA BEACH — Defense attorneys for a pregnant woman accused of driving her minivan into the ocean with her three children aboard has filed a notice of intent to rely on an insanity defense. Ebony...
View ArticleGroup suspected of stealing credit card numbers // VIDEO
Five people are suspected of being responsible for thousands of dollars in losses due to the theft of credit card numbers and the use of counterfeit credit cards in Bay County and, possibly, the...
View ArticleArguments underway in bank trial
PANAMA CITY — After two weeks of often dense testimony about banking rules and regulation, the prosecutor Tuesday told jurors the case against three leaders of a failed local bank is actually quite...
View ArticlePolice find body of missing transient
PANAMA CITYBEACH - The body of a missing transient was found Wednesday morning in a wooded area near the 12000 block of Front Beach Road. Police officials confirmed that the body was that of Cameron...
View ArticleMotorcycle crash sends one to the hospital with life-threatening injuries
PANAMA CITY - A motorcyclist is in critical condition at a local hospital after a Thursday morning crash. The incident happened on U.S. 231 at the Cherokee Heights Road intersection at about 7:30 a.m....
View ArticleFormer crime lab analyst arrested in Panama City
PANAMA CITY — A former state crime lab analyst accused of stealing narcotics from evidence bags and replacing them with over-the-counter medicine was rearrested on additional charges Wednesday in...
View ArticleDriver flees from traffic crash
PANAMA CITY BEACH - A 2005 Chevrolet Equinox was traveling north on Thomas Drive in the northound thru lane at about 2 a.m. Thursday. Meanwhile, Joseph P. Murphy, 65 was driving a 2008 Chevrolet HHR...
View ArticleWoman charged with manslaughter
After a nine-month investigation, a HolmesCountywoman has been charged with manslaughter in the death of her boyfriend. According to the Holmes County Sheriff’s Office, on June 17, 2013, a call was...
View ArticleGuilty verdict in banker trial
PANAMA CITY — All three bankers were convicted Wednesday night of various crimes connected to their running of the now defunct Coastal Community Bank. Defendant Terry Dubose was convicted of all 12...
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