PANAMA CITY SPORTS | B1 NFL PLAYOFFS Fournette’s 3 TDs lead Jacksonville past Pittsburgh and into AFC title game Monday, January 15, 2018 www.newsherald.com @The_News_Herald facebook.com/panamacitynewsherald 75¢ US attorney lays out case against guard Michael Baxter’s is what allegedly led cor- He has been indicted in con- the facility at the time, faces Tuesday but now is expected inmate beating trial rectional officers to brutally nection with a July 2015 charges of falsifying records to go before a jury Jan. 24. delayed until Jan. 24 attack an inmate and file false attack on inmate Darren and depriving an inmate of According to a trial brief reports in hopes of cover- Glover, 44, at Apalachee Cor- his constitutional right to filed in anticipation of Bax- By Zack McDonald ing it up, according to court rectional Institution, 52 W. not endure cruel and unusual ter’s trial, U.S. Attorney 747-5071 | @PCNHzack records. Unit Drive, which authori- punishment, court records Christopher Canova lays [email protected] That is the case the U.S. ties reported stemmed from stated. out the government’s case Attorney’s Office expects Glover taking wedding photos A grand jury indicted against Baxter. Canova indi- PANAMA CITY — An to present before a jury in with his interracial fiancée. Baxter, of Grand Ridge, in cates several officers assisted interracial marriage inside the trial of former major, Baxter, who was a supervis- September on the charges. He the walls of a Sneads prison 49-year-old Michael Baxter. ing correctional officer at was scheduled to go to trial See GUARD, A4 LOCAL | A3 CONCERN ABOUT PC CRAYFISH U.S. Fish and Wildlife says listing the crayfi sh won’t increase regulations, but some are still worried about impact on development BSCO: Man broke into Callaway home, tried to remove girl’s pants Law enforcement the crime made arrest in 12 hours scene, about 12 hours later. By Eryn Dion “This is 747-5069 something @PCNHErynDion that rep- [email protected] Cheatwood resents my worst night- Mcallister Keippala had the unique opportunity to get up close and personal with the wolves of CALLAWAY — For Bay mare as a father and as Seacrest Wolf Preserve. The experience was meaningful for Mcallister, who was diagnosed with County Sheriff Tommy Ford, sheriff,” Ford said. “We autism last year, because he often pretends to be a wolf to cope with feeling overwhelmed. [SPECIAL it was a “worst nightmare” believe this could have TO THE NEWS] scenario. potentially been a potential A young girl woke early abduction or homicide case Sunday morning to a strange had it not been for the actions man allegedly in her room, of the girls and the men and moving the covers off her bed women behind me.” Family travels to connect and trying to pull down her Steven Tylor Cheatwood, pants. She screamed, waking 27, of Springfield, has been up her sister who was sleep- charged with burglary of an autistic child with wolves ing in the same room. The occupied dwelling, lewd and man fled, but their screams lascivious conduct, burglary alerted their mother, who of a structure and attempted By Carol Kent Wyatt wolf characteristics as a derived from the Spanish called police. burglary of an occupied 703-9487 | @WCN_CarolWyatt coping mechanism. and Latin words for “wolf.” With the suspect disap- dwelling. [email protected] “He considers himself So when a teacher sent peared into the night and Ford said investigators half wolf, and sometimes, the Keippalas a video about only a basic description pro- believe Cheatwood entered CHIPLEY — Ten-year- when he’s overwhelmed, he a place where Cal would vided by the two juveniles, the Abigail Lane residence old Mcallister “Cal” ‘turns into’ a wolf,” said his have a chance to not only it was the kind of case that through a window. While Keippala of Davisburg, mother, Brandy Keippala. see a wolf but touch a wolf, could very easily go unsolved. canvassing the neighborhood, Michigan has always felt “He gives ‘wolf’ answers - a the family knew they had to But through neighborhood investigators learned a stor- a special connection to double bark for yes, a single make the nearly thousand- canvassing, video footage, age shed of a nearby residence wolves. bark for no.” mile trip to Seacrest Wolf witness interviews and help had also been burglarized, Cal, who was diagnosed “I howl when I’m happy Preserve in Chipley. from the Springfield Police and that the suspect had also last year with autism, iden- and growl when I’m mad “It was so amazing,” said Department K-9 unit, the tried to break into the home. tifies with the animals so or scared,” added Cal, who suspect was apprehended at intensely he often emulates also answers to “Lobo,” See WOLVES, A4 his home a block away from See ARREST, A4 NATION & WORLD A11 King’s words still inspire nearly 50 years after his death HAWAII By Jeff Martin Atlanta to Chattanooga, Ten- Cleophus Smith, MISTAKEN and Adrian Sainz nessee, with his brother A.D. one of the Memphis The Associated Press at the wheel. Most cars in the sanitation workers MISSILE opposite lane failed to dim who went on strike ATLANTA — Though his their lights, and his brother for better working ALERT voice was silenced nearly 50 angrily vowed to keep his conditions and higher years ago, the Rev. Martin bright lights on in retaliation. pay in 1968, stands Aft er a mistaken Luther King Jr.’s message of “And I looked at him right Tuesday in front of missile alert, many nonviolence still resonates quick and said: ‘Oh no, don’t the balcony of the old are questioning and inspires. do that. There’d be too much Lorraine Motel where the government’s Decades ago, the famed light on this highway, and it Martin Luther King ability to keep civil rights leader — also will end up in mutual destruc- Jr. was fatally shot them safe and regarded as one of America’s tion for all. Somebody got to in Memphis, Tenn. informed in a real greatest orators — recalled [ADRIAN SAINZ/THE emergency driving one night from See KING, A4 ASSOCIATED PRESS] Panama City News Herald Diversions .................. B7-8 Sports.........................B1-4 TODAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Want to subscribe? Local & State .............. A3-7 TV grid ......................... B6 Sunny Partly sunny Mostly sunny Call 850-747-5050 Obituaries ..................... A5 Viewpoints .................... A8 58° / 37° 61° / 33° 44° / 27° * ** A2 Monday, January 15, 2018 | The News Herald READER FEEDBACK CELEBRATE COMMUNITY TODAY IN HISTORY A former building depart- Today is Monday, Jan. 15, the ment employee has filed a PICTURE PERFECT 15th day of 2018. There are 350 second “whistle blower” suit days left in the year. This is the against the city of Panama City We want your photos: Post your photos to the News Herald Facebook page with your name, city of Martin Luther King Jr. federal Beach claiming she faced a residence and information about the photo. You can email photos to [email protected]. holiday. hostile work environment for Today’s Highlight in History: reporting disparate treatment. On Jan. 15, 1943, work was Scott Reed: “I have dealt completed on the Pentagon, with Mel Leonard several the headquarters of the U.S. times during the last few Department of War (now years while doing a reno- Defense). vation. He was very nice On this date: and I even told him that In 1559, England’s Queen I wished everyone down Elizabeth I was crowned in there could have his nice Westminster Abbey. personality because it In 1777, the people of New would be a pleasure for the Connecticut declared their public to work with people independence. (The repub- like him. Very nice guy.” lic later became the state of Todd Austin: “PCB should Vermont.) have a PT requirement to In 1892, the original rules of avoid such lawsuits.” basketball, devised by James Maggie Smith: “Marie Naismith, were published for Mattox on the case. the fi rst time in Springfi eld, How surprising!” Massachusetts, where the game originated. Gulf Coast Jam has grown In 1918, Gamal Abdel Nasser, tremendously since its incep- the second president of Egypt, tion in 2013. Billboard noticed, was born in Alexandria. recently naming the Jam to In 1929, civil rights leader its top 10 country music fes- Martin Luther King, Jr. was tivals in America. Who do born in Atlanta. you want to see in Panama In 1947, the mutilated remains City Beach this year? Laura Haines sent us this Picture Perfect saying, “We love to go to St Andrew’s State Park of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, Blake Corley: “Not the and see how many deer and alligators we can see. On this day, we got to take a photo of this who came to be known as the crap top 40 pop coun- beautiful buck, keeping his eye on a doe. We sited eleven deer, three deer just outside the gate “Black Dahlia,” were found in try we see every year. I to the park as well.” a vacant Los Angeles lot; her want real country.” slaying remains unsolved. Mike Gaffney: “Eric In 1961, a U.S. Air Force radar Church,Jamey John- tower off the New Jersey coast son, Chris Stapleton, collapsed into the Atlantic and Bocephus.” Ocean during a severe storm, Joe Bonnie Yates: GO AND DO killing all 28 men aboard. “Marty Stewart, Chris In 1967, the Green Bay Packers Stapleton, Hank Jr.” of the National Football League Alex Pitts: “Quit play- Today City. Class facilitated by $3 per person.