4 swimming advisories lifted, 2 remain
PANAMA CITY — Public health officials rescinded swimming advisories at four area beaches Tuesday, but left two others in place. Last week, the Florida Department of Health in Bay County’s Healthy...
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 ArticleBodies of young swimmers recovered
The bodies of two young men who drowned in the Blackwater River were recovered by divers from the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office overnight. The men were last seen about 6:30 p.m. near the Deaton...
View ArticleRealtors working against homelessness
PANAMA CITY BEACH — Florida has the third largest homeless population in the U.S., and Realtors across the state are working to reduce that number. Realtors from across the Panhandle converged in...
View ArticleTDC trying to lure foreign tourists
PANAMA CITY BEACH — When most Europeans think of Florida, they think of big-name destinations such as Miami and Orlando, but local tourism officials are hoping to someday add Panama City Beach to that...
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 ArticleUniversity to host service for first dean
PANAMA CITY -- A celebration of life service for Larson “Larry” Bland, Florida State University Panama City’s first dean, will be held Saturday, from 1-3 p.m. at the campus at 4750 Collegiate Drive....
View ArticleLane closure planned for U.S. 231
CAMPBELLTON -- The right lane of U.S. 231 northbound, north of Fernwood Street in Campbellton, will be closed Thursday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Construction crews will be installing fiber optic conduit...
View ArticleRemembering Midway // PHOTO GALLERY
NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY PANAMA CITY — On the 72nd anniversary of the first day of one the most storied battles in U.S. naval history, the Navy dive school on Wednesday hosted survivors of the Battle of...
View ArticleLocal captain goes deeper with dolphin tours // PHOTO GALLERY
PANAMA CITY BEACH — After working as a dolphin cruise guide for three years, 26-year-old Lorraine Frasier wanted to do things her own way. The young captain launched her own tour business, Dolphin and...
View ArticleEconomics professorship named after local entrepreneur
PANAMA CITY — It is somewhat ironic that the state Legislature chose to name a professorship after Charlie Hilton. Hilton always avoided this type of publicity. “I never sought fame or fortune or...
View ArticleJudge to decide redistricting maps legality
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida circuit judge will decide by the end of the month whether state legislators violated the law and drew up political maps for Congress that were designed to help...
View ArticleLicense free fishing days announced
Floridians and visitors will be able to fish without a saltwater recreational fishing license on June 7 and 8 and freshwater recreational fishing license on June 14 and 15, officials announced this...
View ArticleChamber block party next week
PANAMA CITY -- The Bay County Chamber of Commerce will host its third annual Board of Directors’ Block Party Thursday in front of the chamber building on the 200 block of W. 5th Street in Panama City....
View ArticleFormer Air Force master sergeant deals with loss of independence
LYNN HAVEN — Bernadine “Bernie” Reams woke up one night in October 2011 with a sore throat. She ate lozenges and inhaled Chloraseptic spray until, doctors told her later, she overdosed. No one goes to...
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 ArticleEastern to resume work on $10.5B project proposal
PANAMA CITY — Eastern Shipbuilding Group is moving forward with designs to land a multibillion-dollar contract with the U.S. Coast Guard after a bid protest halted the project for nearly four months....
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 ArticleD-Day: 70 years later
The rows of white crosses seemed endless. It was June 2011 and my wife and I were in the American military cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, in Normandy, France. The cemetery is behind a beach, the name...
View ArticleBoard: Oil drilling risks remain from device woes
WASHINGTON (AP) — The key last-ditch safety device that failed to prevent the 2010 BP oil spill remains a potentially catastrophic problem today for some offshore drilling, according to a federal...
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