Two dead from weekend falls identified
PANAMA CITY - The Bay County Sheriff’s Office has identified the two people who fell to their deaths in unrelated incidents this last weekend. On Friday, Jonathan Cord Holland of Panama City died...
View ArticleJCSO investigating shooting
MARIANNA - Jackson County Sheriff’s Deputies were investigating shootings at separate locations along State 71, according to the sheriff’s Office’s Facebook page. A 911 dispatcher for the JSCO...
View ArticleBCSO searching for missing woman
The Bay County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a missing mentally challenged adult. At 11:00 a.m. Tuesday a missing person report was filed for Shae Morrison, 21, by a family member, officials wrote...
View ArticleAppeals court says judge can hear contempt case against lawyer
PANAMA CITY — The 1st District Court of Appeal (DCA) has denied a motion to appoint a new judge in the criminal contempt of court case against a local attorney. Judge James Fensom charged Bill Price...
View ArticleGirl testifies Cozzie attacked her before murder
DeFUNIAK SPRINGS — A young Kentucky girl took the stand Tuesday to describe an attack at Cassine Gardens just one week before 15-year-old Courtney Wilkes’ body was found two years ago. The now...
View ArticleFHP investigating fatal wreck
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a fatal traffic crash that happened Tuesday afternoon in northern Bay County. According to FHP’s website, troopers were dispatched to...
View ArticleOne killed, another in critical condition after wreck
PANAMA CITY - A Southport woman was critically injured and a Panama City man was killed in a single vehicle crash, Florida Highway Patrol officials said in a Wednesday morning news release. Jessica...
View ArticleFormer TWA Flight 800 investigators want new probe
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight800 off the coast of New York, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that...
View ArticleJury to hear fatal crash case
PANAMA CITY — Testimony begins Friday in the trial of a man accused of driving under the influence in a fatal car crash in 2011. Tarrance Jerell Harrell, 22, is accused of being behind the wheel of a...
View ArticleTwo more suspects arrested, charged in Panama City gunfight
PANAMA CITY -- The second and third alleged shooters in a Panama City gunfight earlier this month have been arrested. Jerome Watts, 25, was arrested in Pensacola, and Tevin Brown, 22, was arrested in...
View ArticleBCSO warns of ID theft scam
PANAMA CITY -- The Bay County Sheriff’s Office is warning people to take a closer look at any email purporting to be from FedEx. A scam reported to the BCSO attempts to gain access to a victim’s...
View ArticleMissing woman home safely
PANAMA CITY -- Shae Morrison, who was reported missing Tuesday afternoon by a family, has returned home safely, according to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office. Morrison had been staying with someone she...
View ArticleBCSO seeks suspect in robbery
PANAMA CITY -- Deputies are looking for a man suspected of beating and robbing a woman on a Panama City street. A deputy found a woman lying on the ground crying just before 3 a.m. Saturday and...
View ArticleVictim didn’t ‘like’ Facebook pic
PANAMA CITY -- Deputies arrested a man and a woman for allegedly stripping a boat they were supposed to repair and posting photos of it on the Internet, according to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office....
View ArticleCozzie’s fate in jurors’ hands
DeFUNIAK SPRINGS —Twelve jurors have spent seven days listening to testimony during the trial and penalty phases of the first-degree murder trial of Steven Cozzie. Thursday, each will be asked to...
View Article'Highly Questionable' Method: Bra Searches by Lakeland Police are Criticized...
LAKELAND - State Attorney Jerry Hill sent a letter to the Lakeland Police Department this week criticizing the actions of an officer who, in an unjustified hunt for drugs, instructed a woman to shake...
View ArticleMan gets five years in prison for Wounded Warrior scam
PANAMA CITY BEACH — A Panama City Beach man was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday for using thousands of dollars in donations meant for the Wounded Warrior Project to finance his partying....
View ArticleAttorney, judge settle contempt case
PANAMA CITY — The criminal contempt of court case against a Panama City attorney came to an anticlimactic end Thursday afternoon in the same courtroom where it started four months ago. Bill Price was...
View ArticleSurvivor says defendant drove
PANAMA CITY — Armando Spruill was sitting behind the driver of Miah Hill’s car early in the morning on Oct. 22, 2011 when it ran the red light at Business 98 and North Cove Boulevard. When another...
View ArticleRobbery suspect seen in PCB
PANAMA CITY BEACH -- A robbery suspect was seen Thursday walking in the area of Sunset Avenue on Panama City Beach and the Bay County Sheriff’s Office continues to ask the public for help finding him....
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