PANAMA CITY — A man in a motorized wheelchair was struck and killed by a vehicle at the intersection of 23rd Street and State Avenue Sunday night. Panama City Police say they responded to the scene around 10 p.m., where a Chevy truck driven by Michael Lipford, 24, of Panama City, had been traveling eastbound on 23rd Street and struck 65-year-old George Betsey of Panama City as he crossed 23rd Street in his motorized wheelchair. Betsey died at the hospital, [...]

PALM BEACH GARDENS — A 25-year-old server at a Florida restaurant says she lost her job after posting on Facebook that she didn't get tipped for a $735 take-out order placed by a local church.Tamlynn Yoder told the Palm Beach Post that she took to social media after Christ Fellowship church placed a 75-item order Wednesday from Outback Steakhouse in Palm Beach Gardens.Yoder said that because she spent much of her shift preparing the order, she only made $18 in total tips [...]

MIAMI — A gay schoolteacher has been fired by a Miami Catholic school after marrying her same-sex partner in an apparent violation of church rules, church officials said.Archdiocese of Miami officials confirmed to the Miami Herald that first-grade teacher Jocelyn Morffi lost her job at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic School on Thursday, the day after she returned from her Florida Keys wedding."This weekend I married the love of my life and unfortunately I was [...]

At a ceremony Monday to unveil portraits of him and former first lady Michelle Obama, the former president said artist Kehinde Wiley cheerfully ignored almost all of his suggestions.

The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office announced Brandon Jennings as its 2017 Deputy of the Year Monday.Jennings transferred from patrol to street crimes unit in June. As a deputy in the crimes unit, he is responsible for identifying, investigating, interviewing and, ultimately, arresting criminals responsible for drug dealing, gang activity, burglaries and robberies, according to an OCSO press release.In 2017, Jennings conducted more than 180 traffic stops, investigated over 120 [...]

JACKSONVILLE — A woman has pleaded guilty to kidnapping an infant from a Florida hospital nearly 20 years ago.The plea agreement 52-year-old Gloria Williams accepted Monday in Jacksonville calls for a prison sentence of up to 22 years when she's sentenced in May.Prosecutors said Williams kidnapped newborn Kamiyah Mobley from a Jacksonville hospital in 1998 and raised her in Walterboro, South Carolina. The victim is now 19 and named Alexis Manigo.The Florida Times- [...]

The growing deficits reflect, in part, the impact of last year's tax overhaul, which is projected to cause federal tax revenue to plummet.