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PC SUPPORTS RESTORING VOTING RIGHTS LOCAL | B1 PANAMA CITY LOCAL | B1 LOCAL OYSTER SHUCKER TAKES 5TH ON INTERNATIONAL STAGE Monday, October 1, 2018 www.newsherald.com @The_News_Herald facebook.com/panamacitynewsherald 75¢ Drug-planting probe intensifi es People share their On their way to a wed- 26-year-old Jackson County Jackson County stories about offi cer ding, Jeffrey Helms and his deputy who happened to Sheriff’s girlfriend April Middleton come from a prominent law Offi ce Deputy By Jeff Burlew watched from rear view mir- enforcement family. Zachary Tallahassee Democrat rors as the deputy turned Middleton and Helms Wester as seen around and accelerated weren’t too worried. They’d in a still from a MARIANNA — They were behind them with lights had run-ins with the law over dash cam video heading down the back roads flashing. drugs before, but they knew obtained by of Jackson County in their When the deputy got out of they didn’t have anything on the Tallahassee beat-up old Camry when his car, Middleton recognized them at the time. There were Democrat. they passed a Sheriff’s Office him instantly from her days scales in the car, but nothing [CONTRIBUTED patrol car coming from the waiting tables in Marianna. PHOTO] other direction. It was Zachary Wester, a See PROBE, A6 New app teaches history of local downtowns Deported migrants coming from Texas arrive at the La Aurora Airport Repatriation Center on Sept. 25 in Guatemala City. On this day, two fl ights came in from Texas immigrant detention centers carrying nearly 300 deported migrants. [CAROLYN VAN HOUTEN/THE WASHINGTON POST] Faced with crisis, chief fi nds no easy fi x in Central America By Nick Miroff were taken into custody. The Washington Post “Look at that,” McA- Brad Stephens shows an early release of a walking tour of St. Andrews on Friday, September 28, 2018. leenan said, scrolling Florida Stories, a walking tour app made by the Florida Humanities Council, features audio and visual GUATEMALA CITY through images that walking tours with maps for places across Florida. [PHOTOS BY JOSHUA BOUCHER/THE NEWS HERALD] - Kevin McAleenan, the resembled the refu- United States’ top border gee caravans of Syria, or security official, was Myanmar, not the moun- St. Andrews, Downtown receive Florida Humanities Council grant halfway through a three- tains west of Tucson. “One country tour of Central hundred seventy people,” America, worriedly look- he said. By Collin Breaux ing at his phone. Groups of Central Amer- 747-5081 | @PCNHCollinB Photos sent by Border icans nearly that large had [email protected] Patrol agents in Arizona been coming across the showed a long column of Rio Grande in South Texas PANAMA CITY — His- Guatemalan migrants, in recent months, turning tory is meeting technology mostly women and chil- themselves in and claiming through a phone app that dren, trudging through gives people walking around the desert single file as they See MIGRANTS, A4 St. Andrews an insight into the history of the neighborhood. St. Andrews has an audio SPORTS | C1 tour on the Florida Stories Walking Tours app for any JAGUARS tourists or locals who want to learn about the neighbor- GROUND hood’s heritage. A similar audio tour for downtown McKenzie Park in Downtown Panama City on Friday, September 28, JETS IN 2018. Downtown Panama City will be included in Florida Stories, a See APP, A6 walking tour app made by the Florida Humanities Council. 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St. Andrews said he had dropped out ‘MADE IN GREECE VII’ ART Bay. Taken of the organization before EXHIBITION: Monday- from boat becoming a U.S. senator. Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. ramp at In 1949, Mao Zedong at the Amelia Center Main Waterhaven proclaimed the People’s Gallery, Room 112. pier, Panama Republic of China during BAY BOOMERS ACTIVITY City Beach, a ceremony in Beijing. PROGRAM LINE DANC- Florida.” A 42-day strike by the ING: 1-3 p.m. at the Bay United Steelworkers County Council on Aging, of America began over 1116 Frankford Ave., the issue of retirement Panama City. For details, benefi ts. 769-3468 In 1957, the motto “In God We Trust” began Wednesday appearing on U.S. paper currency. CENTRAL PANHANDLE In 1964, the Free Speech FAIR: Oct. 1-6 at 15th Street Movement began at the and Sherman Avenue; University of California, includes Bay County Art Berkeley. Japan’s fi rst Exhibition. HAPPY BIRTHDAY high-speed “bullet train,” ‘MADE IN GREECE VII’ ART the Tokaido Shinkansen, EXHIBITION: Monday- went into operation Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Former President Jimmy Carter is 63. British Prime Minister Griffin (Better Than Ezra) is between Tokyo and at the Amelia Center Main is 94. Actress-singer Julie Theresa May is 62. Alt-country- 50. Actor Zach Galifianakis Osaka. Gallery, Room 112. Andrews is 83. Actress Stella rock musician Tim O’Reagan is 49. Singer Keith Duffy is In 1971, Walt Disney Stevens is 80. Rock musician (The Jayhawks) is 60. Singer 44. Actress Kate Aselton is World opened near Thursday Jerry Martini (Sly and the Youssou N’Dour is 59. Actor 40. Actress Sarah Drew is 38. Orlando. Family Stone) is 75. Baseball Esai Morales is 56. Retired MLB Actor-comedian Beck Bennett In 1972, the book “The Joy CENTRAL PANHANDLE FAIR: Hall of Famer Rod Carew is 73. All-Star Mark McGwire is 55. is 34. Actress Jurnee Smollett- of Sex” by Alex Com- Oct. 1-6 at 15th Street and Jazz musician Dave Holland is Actor Christopher Titus is 54. Bell is 32. Actress Brie Larson fort was fi rst published Sherman Avenue; includes 72. Actress Yvette Freeman is Actress-model Cindy Margolis is 29. Singer/songwriter Jade by Mitchell Beazley of Bay County Art Exhibition. 68. Actor Randy Quaid is 68. is 53. Producer John Ridley is Bird is 21. Actor Jack Stanton London. PLEIN AIR JOURNALING: 9 R&B singer Howard Hewett 53. Rock singer-musician Kevin is 10. a.m. to 4 p.m. at Sheraton Bay Point/Palms Confer- ence Center. Learn to journal in watercolor with YOUNG ARTIST master painter Don Taylor. For details, http://www. beachartgroup.com/ plein-air-sketching-with- don-taylor.html PAINT PARTY THURSDAYS: 5-7 p.m. at the Sheraton Bay Point Resort, 4114 Jan Cooley Drive, Panama City Beach. $35 per person. For Ahmad Hudaihed details and reservations, Grade 10 www.BeachArtGroup. 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