Two child molesters sentenced
Two Bay County 20-somethings were sentenced to prison Monday for criminal sexual conduct with children between the ages of 6 and 9, according to the State Attorney’s Office. Anthony James Marshal...
View ArticleMan charged with shooting into car
An Ebro man faces several felony charges after allegedly shooting a BB gun at a car with a woman and three children inside, according to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office. Brandon Alexander McCoy, 27,...
View ArticleBCSO pulls in three from Gulf
The Bay County Sheriff’s Office conducted a water rescue this afternoon in the 20,000 block of Front Beach Road, west of the Laguna Beach Christian Retreat. With the assistance of a bystander with a...
View ArticleFDIC files response in Peoples First suit
PANAMA CITY — The government has filed a more specific complaint against the directors of a failed local bank, but the details of specific loans the defendants are being sued over are still largely...
View ArticleParker tapping into text alerts
PARKER — City-wide text alerts and DNA marked property could be available to the public soon. Mayor Rich Musgrave gave council members an update on technology designed to improve the city’s...
View ArticleChild returned, father charged
PANAMA CITY — The father who took his child from his mother and took off for several days turned himself into the Bay County Sheriff’s Office Tuesday night. The child was not harmed. Jay Cale Weeks,...
View ArticleCommunity works to help injured Bay County deputy
PANAMA CITY — The desire to help a deputy injured while riding his motorcycle a month ago has become contagious. Deputy Chris Hollis and his girlfriend were riding down Harrison Avenue May 5 when the...
View ArticleRural Panhandle county rocked by sheriff's arrest
BRISTOL, Fla. (AP) — Nick Finch, an Army veteran and onetime cop, narrowly won his election as sheriff of tiny Liberty County some seven months ago. Now this Panhandle county— which has slightly more...
View ArticleMan stabbed in fight outside bar
PANAMA CITY — Panama City police investigating a theft complaint outside of Players Saloon around 2 a.m. Thursday were alerted to a man lying in the street nearby bleeding from a stab wound to his...
View ArticlePolice: Mom left kids hungry and alone
PANAMA CITY — A 28-year-old mother who police said left her children “hungry and alone” in a hotel room Wednesday has been arrested and charged with child neglect, police said. Valencia Rhodes...
View ArticleSuspect in wife’s slaying competent; trial to continue
PANAMA CITY — The man suspected in the slaying of his pregnant wife is ready to continue to trial after undergoing competency restoration in a state mental hospital. It’s been six months since Gary...
View ArticleDeputies seek public’s help to identify burglar
PANAMA CITY BEACH — Law enforcement officers ask locals to help them identify a suspected vehicle burglar who burglarized two Panama City Beach subdivisions, police wrote in a news release. Security...
View ArticleDeputies investigating suspicious death in Walton County
PAXTON — Authorities are investigating a suspicious death in Paxton, the Walton County Sheriff's Office reported late Friday. According to a news release, investigators were looking into the death of...
View ArticlePCPD searching for shooting suspects
PANAMA CITY - Panama City police are searching for several suspects in an incident “where the occupants of two vehicles were shooting at each other.” Officers responded to a shots fired call on N....
View ArticlePCB’s city pier saw no recent drownings; unmanned county pier had at least 4
PANAMA CITY BEACH — Joe Cocco still runs to Pineapple Willie’s and back to the M.B. Miller County Pier, just like he did Aug. 3, 2008. On that day, Cocco, a captain with the Panama City Beach Fire...
View ArticleOfficials: Don’t be complacent, do be aware of the flags
PANAMA CITY BEACH — One of the most common reasons people get in trouble in the water is they overestimate their swimming abilities, said PCB Aquatics Center director Will Spivey, who trains...
View ArticleFederal grant to fund firefighter training
PANAMA CITY — Thanks to a federal grant Bay County will have a better trained firefighting crew. The County Commission approved a $134,472 Assistance to Firefighters grant recently that will pay for...
View ArticleOne dead in drowning, several others sent to hospital
PANAMA CITY BEACH — At least one fatal drowning occurred on Panama City Beach over the weekend and law enforcement stayed busy Sunday afternoon with several other water distress calls. Charles Glenn...
View ArticleOfficials investigating suspicious fire
It was busy night for Panama City firefighters. The Panama City Fire Department responded to a structure fire at 2715 E. 8th Plaza and located a blaze on the outside area of a one story wood framed...
View ArticleTestimony begins in Cozzie murder trial
DeFUNIAK SPRINGS —Toni Wilkes, the mother of Courtney Wilkes, teared up on the witness stand Tuesday as she described the last words she spoke to her daughter: “OK baby, but be responsible.” Courtney,...
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