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“Jada were a popular night club act at Club Lido in Panama City. Not surprisingly, her routine was entitled “Beauty and the Beast”. She is shown here performing for the sailors of the US Task Force 11, while they were on leave. The troops were on their way to New York City to participate in Navy Day celebrations, but made a stop before passing through the Panama Canal.”

Any Freepers hail from Panama City? We're thinking about moving there & need all of the info we can get. Housing, employment, etc. Are there any really quiet neighborhoods? There are military there, a big plus. So what is the conservative to libtard ratio? It looks to be a nice place.

PANAMA CITY, Fla. — A gunman has opened fire during a Florida Panhandle school board meeting. It's not immediately known if there were fatalities or injuries. A WMBB television reporter at Tuesday's meeting says the man came up to the podium at the Bay District School Board meeting and said he had a motion. He then pulled out a can of red spray paint and painted a "V" with a circle around it. Reporter Nadeen Yanes tells her station he then pulled out a handgun and started talking. Yanes says a school board member hit the gunman with her purse...

PANAMA CITY BEACH — Larry and Joan Epperly’s 34th anniversary will always be the one where the first family dropped by for ice cream. On Sunday, President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle and their daughter Sasha stopped by Bruster’s Real Ice Cream on Thomas Drive as they headed to Naval Support Activity Panama City. The Epperlys have owned the ice cream shop for about three years and celebrated their anniversary by serving the first family through the walk-up window of their business. “What an anniversary present,” Joan Epperly said.

Note: The following text is a quote: Eight Uzbekistan Nationals Among 12 Charged with Racketeering, Human Trafficking & Immigration Violations in Scheme to Employ Illegal Aliens in 14 States Twelve defendants, including eight Uzbekistan nationals, have been charged in a 45-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Mo., on May 6, 2009, on RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) charges related to labor racketeering, forced labor trafficking and immigration and other violations in 14 states. Abrorkhodja Askarkhodjaev, 30, Nodir Yunusov, 22, Rustamjon Shukurov, 21, citizens of Uzbekistan residing in Mission, Kan.; Ilkham Fazilov, 44, Nodirbek...

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. — The sheriff's department has developed a remarkably effective — and controversial — way of catching illegal immigrants: Deputies in patrol cars pull up to a construction site in force, and watch and see who runs. Those who take off are chased down and arrested on charges such as trespassing, for cutting through someone else's property, or loitering, for hiding out in someone's yard, or reckless driving, for speeding off in a car. U.S. immigration authorities are then given the names of those believed to be in this country illegally. "It's not wrong for them to...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. - Lawmakers and the family of a teenager seen on videotape being kneed and struck by juvenile boot camp guards are calling for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the guards. The Bay County Medical Examiner ruled that Martin Lee Anderson died of internal bleeding caused by a genetic blood disorder. But his family said Friday they believe the boy died because of the 30-minute beating that took place hours before the 14-year-old died. The U.S. Justice Department is investigating possible civil rights violations. Gov. Jeb Bush said he did not support calls to shut down the...

Arlington, VA – Bush-Cheney ’04 Press Secretary today issued the following statement: “On Tuesday, August 10, and Wednesday, August 11, U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) will join President George W. Bush at campaign events in Florida, New Mexico and Arizona. On Tuesday, Senator McCain will travel with President Bush on the Florida bus tour with events in the communities of Pensacola, Niceville and Panama City. On Wednesday, Senator McCain will join President Bush at Bush-Cheney ’04 campaign stops in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Phoenix, Arizona.”

Panama City Beach, Florida-AP -- The mayor of America's spring break capital wants nothing to do with wild girls. The creators of the "Girls Gone Wild" videos are planning a live pay-per-view broadcast next Thursday from an undisclosed spring break destination. In the videos, college-age women bare their breasts while partying. The "Girls Gone Wild" production crew and tour bus recently arrived in Panama City Beach, Florida. That's prompted police and the sheriff's office to be on alert, with officers on the lookout for public nudity, lewd acts and disorderly conduct. Mayor Lee Sullivan, a former police chief himself, warns...

<p>PANAMA CITY, Fla. - NAACP leaders want to know why only 11 percent of businesses and residents on the city's Martin Luther King Boulevard use the name of the slain civil rights leader for their addresses.</p> <p>Most of the businesses continue to use the names of Cove Boulevard or State 77, as the road was called before it was renamed eight years ago.</p>