Bay County News

After 5 years, the Panama City Police Department was able to give closure to one family after announcing criminal charges against one man for murder.

Dennis Feltgen, spokesperson and meteorologist for the National Hurricane Center, said having two named storms before the official beginning of the Atlantic hurricane season June 1 is uncommon.

County is preparing for a 6 percent decrease in property values for the 2012-2013 fiscal year, a drop that will cost the county an estimated $500,000 in revenue.

Students set off confetti poppers as teacher Keilan McWhorter powered on the interactive whiteboard for his freshman biology class at Rutherford High School on Wednesday afternoon.

Roxie, a Shih Tzu-Yorkshire terrier mix, looks out of her cage earlier this month at Bay County Animal Control.

Panama City- The family of deceased Callaway Mayor Bob Thompson maintains he died this weekend from a black mold infection he contracted inspecting ditches in Callaway Point.

Bay County fire crews responded to calls of a structure fire at the old Fountain House on Highway 231 in Fountain around one o'clock Wednesday morning.

The U.S. Navy is holding a public meeting in Bay County to discuss the potential environmental effects associated with training and testing activities it conducts along the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico.

A man who escaped from the Decatur County Jail last Thursday was captured in Panama City Beach, Fla., on Friday evening, Sheriff Wiley Griffin said.

Some Compass Lake Hills residents did not get the answers they were hoping for at Tuesday's Property Owners Association board meeting.

The charter school closed the deal with S-M-P of Bay County at 10:00 Tuesday morning.

Public libraries in several states are pulling the racy romance trilogy "Fifty Shades of Grey" from shelves or deciding not to order the best-seller at all, saying it's too steamy or too poorly written.

If you like to take your tent or umbrella to the beach and then leave them behind when you leave, they could soon be thrown in the trash.

The Panama City Police Department arrested a stabbing victim for lying about the incident, officers wrote in a news release.

A pedestrian was killed in Bay County Saturday night after being hit by a car while trying to cross the street in busy holiday traffic.

For many vacationers, Memorial Day weekend means the beginning of summer. And the beginning of summer means, time to hit the beach.

A lot of cars are expected on the roads this holiday weekend - more than 30 million Americans plan to take a road trip - but getting upset, anxious and in a hurry is only going to make the problem worse, Bay County's chief traffic engineer Keith Bryant said Friday.

The Panama City Police Department announced additional charges being filled in the arrest of Nicholas J. Evans and Kayla N. Fosmire.

Both the Bay County pier and the Dan Russell Popeye Fields pier are reporting good fishing night and day.

Bay County Commissioner Mike Thomas is crafting an ordinance that would deal with beach tents such as this that are left overnight.