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PANAMA CITY LOCAL | B1 CLEANUP BEGINS The National Weather Service confi rmed an EF-1 tornado hit Okaloosa County on Sunday as residents started picking up the destruction. Tuesday, April 24, 2018 www.newsherald.com @The_News_Herald facebook.com/panamacitynewsherald 75¢ Offi cials mull PCB Academy robbery alcohol ban extension By Tyra L. Jackson puts Cove on edge 850-522-5121 | @TyraJackPCNH [email protected] PANAMA CITY BEACH By Eryn Dion — Officials have proposed 747-5069 | @PCNHErynDion extending the March alco- [email protected] hol ban into late April next year, saying some “rowdy” PANAMA CITY — The nor- groups have decided to pack mally quiet Cove neighborhood the beach at the end of the was upended Monday afternoon ban. by dozens of heavily armed law Mayor Mike Thomas said enforcement officers and the low he’s driven around the Beach hum of a circling Bay County Sher- and noticed more crowds of iff’s Office helicopter as the hunt people who visited toward the continued into the evening for a beginning of April. man who robbed the front desk of “There was a lot of con- Eagle Nest Christian Academy at gregating of groups. I had a gunpoint. lot of families say they felt Panama City Police Chief Scott uncomfortable. As soon as Ervin said the suspect entered the March was over, groups front office of the school, housed found places to congregate inside the Cove Baptist Church and party. When people see at 100 N. MacArthur Avenue, that activity, they wonder if around noon and demanded we’re serious about change,” money while brandishing a hand- Thomas said. gun. The suspect then fled north It’s hard to say how serious toward the school’s classrooms other members of the PCB and through the church. Council are about expanding Ervin described the suspect as the ban at this time. Newly- a white male, about 5’ 9” tall with elected Ward 3 representative close cropped hair and a medium Geoff McConnell, who has build. He was last seen wearing a supported the March ban, black hoodie and fitted blue jeans. said he wasn’t comfortable He is considered to be armed and commenting on the subject. dangerous. Councilman Phil Chester The robbery triggered lockdown said he hasn’t spoken with procedures at Cherry Street Ele- mentary, Holy Nativity Episcopal See ALCOHOL, A3 School, Oscar Patterson Elemen- tary, C.C. Washington Academy, Rosenwald High School, Bay High School, Margaret K. Lewis School and Jinks Middle School. NATION & WORLD | A4 No students were harmed. Law enforcement vehicles DRUG DEALER choked the narrow, winding streets around the school for hours SENTENCING as investigators followed leads, responding to every suspicious Deputy Attorney person in the area and homeowner General Rod who returned home to find their Rosenstein, is door unlocked. Officers with PCPD An offi cer escorts a little girl out of Eagle Nest Academy. All schools in the area around the appearing before Cove were on lockdown on Monday afternoon after a white male attempted to rob the Eagles the Supreme Court See ROBBERY, A3 Nest Academy. [PATTI BLAKE/THE NEWS HERALD] to defend the Trump administration's position in a case “I’m freaking out here. I’m used to seeing this stuff in Chicago, not here. The Cove is supposed to be a safe about the sentencing neighborhood. You don’t see this stuff here.” Sarah Grace, who lives next door to the school of a convicted drug dealer. Dunn sits in on opioid listening session By Eryn Dion EMS has seen the number of 747-5069 | @PCNHErynDion overdose calls continue to [email protected] climb. On the recovery side, Chemical Addictions Recov- PANAMA CITY — Saying ery Effort (CARE) Inc’s CEO he is “tired” of the “War on Wanda Campbell said her Drugs” and the political talk organization has seen a 50 SPORTS | C1 around Washington, Rep. percent increase in clients Neal Dunn spent Monday seeking treatment for an QB FLAMS, FITS morning at an opioid crisis opioid addiction this year. listening session at the Bay On the law enforcement & FIXES County Sheriff’s Office with side, last month was the first members of the law enforce- time BCSO had two pages We've been hearing ment and the recovery of overdose calls in their it for months: This community. records. Each page fits about NFL draft is all about “We’ve had this ‘War on 20 cases. the quarterback. Drugs’ for almost 50 years,” “We haven’t turned the The quarterback Dunn said as the session corner on this yet,” Dunn conundrum is more like started. “I think we’ve lost.” said. it. Each of the prime According to the Centers Going around the table and prospects has a hazard for Disease Control, last year sharing their stories with Rep. Neal Dunn sits with Sheriff Tommy Ford, left. Dunn visited to accompany the 45,000 people died from an BCSO on Monday to hear from community members about the hype. opioid overdose and locally See OPIOIDS, A4 opioid epidemic. [PATTI BLAKE/THE NEWS HERALD] Panama City News Herald Diversions ..................B7 Sports.................... C1-4 TODAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Want to subscribe? Local & State ...........B1-6 TV grid ......................C5 Partly sunny Mostly sunny A t-storm Call 850-747-5050 Obituaries .................. B3 Viewpoints ................ A6 75° / 60° 76° / 62° 75° / 58° * ** A2 Tuesday, April 24, 2018 | The News Herald READER FEEDBACK CELEBRATE COMMUNITY TODAY IN HISTORY With #springbreak2018 under Today is Tuesday, April 24, the their belts, key players around PICTURE PERFECT 114th day of 2018. There are Panama City Beach reflect 251 days left in the year. on the laws passed in 2015, We want your Today’s Highlight in History: how they’ve shaped the local photos: Post On April 24, 1800, Congress economy and where to go from your photos approved a bill establishing the here. to the News Library of Congress. Daree Mccay: “We have a few Herald Face- On this date: small businesses on the beach. book page In 1877, federal troops were While we’ve seen a decrease with your ordered out of New Orleans, in our revenue, each year, for name, city ending the North’s post-Civil the pass couple of years, I now of residence War rule in the South. feel safe in our community and and informa- In 1915, in what’s considered I’ll take safety over money any tion about the start of the Armenian day. Also, I see more families the photo. genocide, the Ottoman Empire coming this way.” You can began rounding up Armenian Samantha Freeman: “Self- email photos political and cultural leaders in ishly, traffi c (or lack there to yourpix@ Constantinople. of) is nice. But I don’t sup- pcnh.com. In 1916, some 1,600 Irish port the new laws. Morality nationalists launched the cannot be governed by laws. Easter Rising by seizing several Rape, drunkenness, violence: Rob Moss, of key sites in Dublin. (The rising those are already against the Lynn Haven, was put down by British forces law. We should enforce the shared this fi ve days later.) laws already on the books, picture of In 1932, in the Free State of Not create new ones that the moon Prussia, the Nazi Party gained negatively impact bay county and Venus a plurality of seats in parlia- progress. Just my 2 cents.” in the late mentary elections. Judy Brackett: “Not afraid to go evening sky. In 1953, British statesman Win- out anymore and I live on the ston Churchill was knighted by beach.” Queen Elizabeth II. R.b. Mcintyre: “Pretty sure the In 1962, the Massachusetts ones who agree make the same Institute of Technology salary each year if it’s busy or achieved the fi rst satellite relay not. And I love that crime is of a television signal, using now gone because the spring NASA’s Echo 1 balloon satel- break crowd is gone.... sarcasm lite to bounce a video image entered here.” from Camp Parks, California, to Westford, Massachusetts. With news circulating that In 1967, Soviet cosmonaut some schools may have moved Vladimir Komarov was killed their Spring Breaks to April to when his Soyuz 1 spacecraft avoid the beach alcohol ban, smashed into the Earth after some in law enforcement and his parachutes failed to deploy Mayor Mike Thomas are look- properly during re-entry; he ing at extending the ban into was the fi rst human spacefl ight April. fatality. Karan Morris: “It does not In 1980, the United States matter what we think. Mayor GO AND DO launched an unsuccessful Mike Thomas and his men will attempt to free the American make that decision.” GRIEF AND LOSS VOL- St., Panama City. Learn how CITY: 6 p.m. at The Bay hostages in Iran, a mission that Darlene Christianson: “Next 1 UNTEER WORKSHOP: 9 to avoid fi nancial scams. County Government Center, resulted in the deaths of eight thing you know, there will be a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Grief Presented by Sergeant Paul Commission Chambers, 850 U.S. servicemen. no drinking at all. As a senior and Loss Service, 1144 Vecker of the Bay County W. 11th St., Panama City In 1990, the space shuttle Dis- (67) I enjoy going to our beach Grace Ave., Panama City, Sheriff’s Offi ce. Program with Pensacola business- covery blasted off from Cape with a glass of wine. Just focus FL. Includes hour lunch has been organized by the man, entrepreneur, and Canaveral, Florida, carrying on under age drinking, and which is provided. Instruc- Dollar $mart Coalition. mentor Quint Studer; hosted the $1.5 billion Hubble Space problem drinkers causing a tor: Lynita Adams.