Marianna News

Six people have been charged with conspiring to defraud the United States by filing $18 million in false tax returns from locations in Panama City and Fort Lauderdale, federal officials announced Tuesday.

Phillabaum's home, located at 3346 Quail Road in Marianna. The auction will be held by The Specialists of the South, Inc., based in Panama City, with Internet bidding provided by LiveAuctioneers.com. Phone and absentee bids will also be taken.

In 2008 Carol Marbin Miller broke the Dozier School For Boys story of a brutal reform school in Marianna, Fla that flogged boys from 8-17 for 68 years.

More than 160 current and former employees and family members are suing the federal prison agency over ailments they blame on exposure to toxins at an electronics recycling facility at a penitentiary in the Florida Panhandle.

A University of South Florida anthropology team located what could be signs of unmarked graves at the former Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, Florida.

On Saturday the Jackson County Drug Task Force attempted a traffic stop on an all terrain vehicle on Shalimar Road near the intersection of Dellwood Cypress Road near Cypress, Florida, officials wrote in a news release.

Marianna- Ricky Moore took his first sip of alcohol at age 17. From that point forward he experimented with nearly every drug.

U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland, R-Panama City, will host a town hall meeting at 1 p.m. Friday in Marianna.

A 48-year-old man from Florida who allegedly visited Bedford County frequently in 2011 and early 2012 was indicted Tuesday by a Bedford County grand jury on a total of five felony counts of sexually molesting a 7-year-old girl.