FSU Panama City to host international public safety diver conference
PANAMA CITY — The International Association of Dive Rescue Specialists (IADRS) will hold its annual conference from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 20-23 at Florida State University Panama City’s Holley...
View ArticleUS agent sued over fake Facebook page in drug case
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Drug Enforcement Administration set up a fake Facebook account using photographs and other personal information it took from the cellphone of a New York woman arrested in a...
View ArticlePoker player robbed in Ebro parking lot
EBRO — Two suspects still are at large after a weekend robbery at Ebro Greyhound Park. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office confirms the robbery took place in the facility’s parking lot between 5:30...
View ArticleVictims decline to press charges
PANAMA CITY — Police arrested a man for prowling Monday after three theft victims declined to press more serious charges. Dillon James Sullivan, 21, was arrested Monday at about 10 p.m. after officers...
View ArticleFall Thunder Beach mostly quiet
PANAMA CITY — Police have arrested a motorcycle driver accused of fleeing the scene of one crash in Panama City and then reporting to Lynn Haven police that someone had hit his motorcycle and fled the...
View ArticleParker PD seeks identity of person using stolen credit card
The Parker Police Department is attempting to identify a female seen leaving a local department store after using a stolen credit card from a Parker resident. The white female was captured on video...
View ArticleDecades-old coffin found empty in Dozier School case
ST. PETERSBURG (AP) — Anthropologists investigating the deaths of dozens of boys at a closed Florida reform school dug up a decades-old grave in Philadelphia looking for the body of one of the boys...
View ArticleBonfire leads to arrests
PANAMA CITY — Two Panama City men were taken to jail after a house fire call turned out to be a bonfire, the Panama City Police Department said Wednesday. Police were called to a residence in the 100...
View ArticleLocal man killed in North Carolina crash
SALISBURY, N.C. — A Panama City man was identified Wednesday as the victim of a crash in North Carolina involving a parked tractor trailer and a pickup. According to reports from the N.C. Highway...
View ArticlePCPD officer injured in wreck
PANAMA CITY — A Panama City police officer was hospitalized after a rear-end collision Wednesday afternoon. Panama City Police Department Sgt. Chris Edmundson was taken by EMS to a local hospital...
View ArticleOne man shot in Youngstown; related battery incident investigated
YOUNGSTOWN — Authorities are investigating a residential shooting that occurred at about 6 p.m. Wednesday. Bay County Sheriff's Office is investigating an altercation that started in a Youngstown home...
View ArticleMissing Bonifay girl sought
BONIFAY — Authorities are seeking assistance in locating a Holmes County girl who went missing during the Bonifay rodeo. The Holmes County Sheriff’s Office released a missing persons report Wednesday...
View ArticleBCSO seeks person using stolen credit card
The Bay County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the assistance to identify a suspect in a credit-card fraud case. The victim discovered his credit card was missing on Thursday. He contacted his...
View ArticleFaux recording artists arrested
PANAMA CITY — Authorities have arrested two New York City residents who claimed to be recording artists who allegedly bilked a local catering company out of several thousand dollars in refreshments,...
View ArticleSix indicted for drug trafficking
PANAMA CITY — Federal prosecutors have filed charges against four Panama City men and two Atlanta people for an alleged narcotics trafficking scheme, officials announced Thursday. Pamela C. Marsh,...
View ArticleMan sentenced to five years for DUI manslaughter
PANAMA CITY — A man intoxicated on prescription narcotics was sentenced to five years in prison for running down a pedestrian along a dimly lit Panama City Beach road. William Scott Rhodes, 29, was...
View ArticleDriver arrested for aggravated stalking
MARIANNA -- A Blounstown man was charged with aggravated stalking Thursday in connection with an incident Sept. 30 during which he harassed another driver on I-10, the Florida Highway Patrol said. At...
View ArticleUPDATE: Man taken to hospital following non-water related incident
PANAMA CITY BEACH — A man was found unresponsive in Panama City Beach near Edgewater Beach Resort on Friday and was taken to an area hospital. Emergency personnel responded to a man who passed out on...
View ArticleBCSO: No charges in Allanton father-son shooting
ALLANTON — No charges will be filed in the shooting death of James Ivey by his son, the Bay County Sheriff’s Office announced on Friday. Investigators ruled Kyle Ivey acted in self defense when he...
View ArticleBrock juror says he was forced into guilty verdict (LETTER)
PANAMA CITY — Defense attorneys are seeking a new trial for the Fountain man convicted of the murder and robbery of his neighbor because a juror said he was forced into a guilty verdict. It would be...
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