Panama

Transient charged for making raccoon a pet (Northwest Florida Daily News)

12 May 2008

A Panama City man was arrested after he was reported to be walking down the street with a raccoon on a leash. Kenneth A. Tabor, 48, was charged with disorderly intoxication and felony animal cruelty for allegedly trapping the animal and leaving it tied up without food or water behind a downtown liquor store. He was booked into the Bay County Jail, and his young raccoon was turned over to state ...

Georgia Man Dies In Swimming Portion Of Panhandle Triathlon (The Tampa Tribune)

12 May 2008

PANAMA CITY BEACH - A Georgia man is dead after he was pulled from the water during the swimming portion of a triathlon in the Florida Panhandle.

A nose for drugs, and a taste for towels (Long Beach Press-Telegram)

12 May 2008

LONG BEACH - It's 7 a.m. on a bright spring day, and the hulking container ship Rotterdam Express has just docked at a grungy Long Beach marine terminal following a five-day passage from Panama.