PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) _ Six Panhandle counties have a new interim chief medical examiner. ...more

July 2, 2008

TAMPA The Polk County Sheriff's Office Sheriff's Training and Respect program – formerly the Polk County Juvenile Boot Camp – will close this month, deputies say. ...more

June 20, 2008

A former juvenile boot camp guard who was exonerated by a jury in the death of a teenager was offered a new position with the Bay County Sheriff's Office but turned it down, the sheriff said. ...more

February 4, 2008

A former juvenile boot camp guard exonerated by a jury in the beating death of a Panama City, Fla., teenager sued the Bay County Sheriff's Office on Friday claiming his due process rights were violated when he was fired. ...more

February 2, 2008

A state panel voted unanimously not to keep embattled medical examiner Charles Siebert on the job Saturday, saying he hadn't complied with an order to have an independent review of his work. ...more

December 30, 2007

It's hard to grasp how a 14-year-old boy can be exercising one minute, then dying during a struggle with adults the next, and yet no one is found criminally responsible. ...more

October 13, 2007

A juvenile boot camp supervisor charged with killing a 14-year-old boy testified Tuesday that guards would have stopped hitting the unresponsive teen if he had just kept exercising. ...more

October 10, 2007

Hillsborough County prosecutors pulled out their best evidence for a Panama City jury Wednesday morning - a videotape showing boot camp drill instructors pushing a 14-year-old boy to the ground and striking him repeatedly. ...more

October 4, 2007

PANAMA CITY - Hillsborough County prosecutors pulled out their best evidence for a Panama City jury Wednesday morning - a videotape showing boot camp drill instructors pushing a 14-year-old boy to the ground and striking him repeatedly. ...more

October 3, 2007

The parents of a teenager killed at a juvenile boot camp in the Panhandle don't expect to see a fair trial, their attorney said Monday. ...more

October 3, 2007