Santa Rosa County News

A woman who said she was held at gunpoint was found unharmed after she was able to send a text message to her son.

For years, the woods around Limit Street in Bagdad were known for their open-air crack markets.

No one is there to answer it but the phone at Dog Fly Control still rings. A recorded message awaits callers: "This is Dog Fly Control.

A Granny Nanny is accused of molesting an elderly client, according to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Office.

On January 18, 2008, a white female entered the Super Walmart on Panama City Beach and used a "washed" and forged check to make a purchase.

For Donna Fitzgerald, her long stint as a corrections officer at Tomoka Correctional Institution was just a job, a way to support herself and her only son until she could retire in seven years and collect a ...

A CUNNING DEFENCE lawyer is apparently planning on using Google search data to sway jurors with hard facts; people are more likely to search for the word "orgy" than for "apple pie", and therefore sexually ...

Here is a list of upcoming Fourth of July fireworks programs across Northwest Florida, which begin on July 3 and continue through July 5. PENSACOLA Pensacola Date: Friday, July 4 Time: 9 p.m. Location: Seville ...

A Panhandle man sought in a Pensacola, Fla., bank robbery was arrested in Dothan.

It's mating season. Maybe that's why bear sightings have dropped, one expert says.

Six people - including three lawmen - were quarantined at a house trailer Thursday after a man found suspicious white powder in his mail.

The Mary Esther veterinarian accused of sexual assault and providing alcohol to a minor has entered a written plea of not guilty.

Angela Marie Leavitt testified Monday during a bond hearing before Circuit Judge Ron Swanson in Santa Rosa County.

June 13 -- Four-year-old Jayden Markes, the little boy investigators once thought was abused, has died.

Angela Leavitt is a wife, a mother and now authorities say she's a fugitive on the run.

Police arrested Angela Leavitt on Tuesday at an airport baggage claim, where she said she was about to surrender, anyway.

A Local Crackdown: Immigration Enforcement in the Panhandle Sheriff Wendell Hall of Santa Rosa County, Fla., uses false-documentation laws to round up illegal immigrants.

Three months after the local police inspected more than a dozen businesses searching for illegal immigrants using stolen Social Security numbers, this community in the Florida Panhandle has become more ...

Santa Rosa County Sheriff's Deputies are looking for a woman they said had sex with a 16-year-old boy.

As Bay County tries to solve its jail operator plan, Commissioners are turning to Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen to take over for Corrections Corporation of America.