Firefighters put out fire quickly
SPRINGFIELD -- Springfield Fire Department extinguished an electrical fire at a mobile home early Monday morning. At 1:15 a.m., firefighters arrived on the scene and saw a small amount of smoke coming...
View Article7, including small child, hospitalized after crash
PANAMA CITY — Seven people, including a small child who was ejected from an SUV, were hospitalized Tuesday evening after a two-car crash. The crash happened at the intersection of U.S. 231 and East...
View ArticleAlabama couple sentenced for counterfeit bills
PANAMA CITY -- A U.S. district judge has sentenced two people to federal prison for using counterfeit bills in Bay County. Judge Richard Smoak Wednesday sentenced Will Rustin Sprayberry, 33, to 46...
View ArticleTwo men sentenced for fraud, identity theft
PANAMA CITY -- Two Panama City men who impersonated inmates in fraud schemes totaling more than $500,000 became inmates Thursday. Versiah M. Taylor, 33, will spend 22 years in federal prison and Tracy...
View ArticleTeen charged with sex crime
GRACEVILLE -- A Graceville man has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said. Christopher Michael Young, 19, Piney Woods Road, was...
View ArticleDate set for 4th murder trial
PANAMA CITY — A judge has set a date for a Fountain man’s fourth trial in the stabbing, shooting and bludgeoning death of his neighbor. Philip Dean Brock is charged with murder, grand theft and...
View ArticleWoman pleads in elderly man's slaying
PANAMA CITY — An Alabama woman pleaded no contest Thursday to charges of murder in the robbery and slaying of a 90-year-old Lynn Haven man. Ashley Griffin, 29, of Hartford, Ala., had been charged with...
View ArticleLynn Haven woman uses fake ID to dodge traffic tickets
PANAMA CITY — A Lynn Haven woman has admitted to using the identity of a Louisiana woman to rack up traffic fines throughout Bay County. The outstanding traffic citations of Shauterica Keyaire...
View ArticlePrisoner on road crew gets weed delivery
FORT PIERCE — A state prisoner working on a road crew faces additional charges after picking up a packet of marijuana tossed from a passing vehicle. The Tribune of Fort Pierce (http://bit.ly/1kC1qxd)...
View ArticleSex offender sent back to prison
PANAMA CITY — A sex offender has been sentenced to six years in prison for crashing into police while attempting to flee arrest. Joshua Warren Lutz, 32, pleaded no contest Friday to a litany of...
View ArticleMan gets 14 years in prison for grease attack
PANAMA CITY — A man who threw boiling grease on his sleeping sister and elderly mother will spend the next 14 years in prison following a plea agreement Friday. Grace Atkinson, mother, told Judge...
View ArticleJewelry heist convict denied retrial
PANAMA CITY -- Judge Michael Overstreet threw out a motion to retry a man guilty of heisting more than $100,000 in jewelry from several Bay County stores. Maurice Robinson was sentenced to 55 years in...
View ArticleMan charged with burglary
PANAMA CITY -- A man was arrested Friday and charged with trying to sell items that he had stolen in a burglary, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said. BCSO received a complaint from a real estate...
View ArticlePanama City murder suspect nabbed in Ocala
OCALA – A convicted felon wanted for murder in the Florida Panhandle was caught without incident Friday during a traffic stop in Marion County. Stephen Trusty, 32, of Panama City, was wanted for...
View ArticlePolice shoot suspect after foot chase
PANAMA CITY — A man was hospitalized Saturday morning after he was shot by police. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) is investigating the incident. As of Saturday night, Panama City...
View ArticlePolice: parents arrested with baby, drugs
PANAMA CITY BEACH Two parents were arrested Saturday night after police watched them do a drug deal with their baby in their car, according to the Panama City Beach Police Department. Gregory Scarver,...
View Article2 hurt in parasailing crash graduate high school
HUNTINGTON, Ind. — Two teenagers badly hurt in a Florida parasailing crash last summer say they're grateful they've recovered enough to graduate from their northeastern Indiana high school. Alexis...
View ArticleBaggy pants leads to contempt charge; overthrown on appeal
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida appeals court is overturning a contempt charge placed on an Alachua County teen who was struggling with falling pants. The 1st District Court of Appeal ruled Monday...
View ArticleScooter renter injured in crash
PANAMA CITY BEACH -- A man went to the hospital Monday after being in a crash involving a car and the rental motor scooter he was riding. Shortly after noon, Bay County Sheriff’s Office arrived on a...
View ArticleName of man shot by police released
PANAMA CITY — Mike Oliver has had people walk into his house before. The 1800 block of Laurel Avenue in St. Andrews is kind of a rough neighborhood, he said, so people have come inside uninvited. But...
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