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Panama City infant baby Declan fights rare disease

By TONY SIMMONS and The News Herald - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019 photo, Shelly Summers' backyard has become a refuge for those left homeless from Hurricane Michael near Panama City, Fla. It has been a year since Hurricane Michael roared across the eastern Florida Panhandle, a Category 5 storm that laid waste to the coastline and ravaged areas far inland. Yet in rural Bay County, amid forests of snapped trees and the more-than-occasional home still roofed with a blue tarp. (Joshua Boucher/News Herald via AP)

A year after Hurricane Michael, housing remains a challenge

By JIM THOMPSON - Associated Press

A person waves a Panama flag during the activities celebrating the 500 anniversary of the founding of Panama City, at the site of the ruins of Old Panama, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019. The city was founded on August 15, 1519 by Spanish conquistador Pedro Arias Davila. On Jan. 28 1671, the Welsh pirate Henry Morgan attacked the city and destroyed it. The attack caused the city to be rebuilt a few kilometers to the west on a new site. (AP Photo/Eric Batista)

Panama’s capital City marks 500th anniversary of founding

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Florida security guard arrested for shooting self in leg

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In this Dec. 3, 2018, file photo, a Panama Canal worker docks the Chinese container ship Cosco at the Panama Canals' Cocoli Locks, in Panama City. China’s expansion in Latin America of its Belt and Road initiative to build ports and other trade-related facilities is stirring anxiety in Washington. As American officials express alarm at Beijing’s ambitions in a U.S.-dominated region, China has launched a charm offensive, wooing Panamanian politicians, professionals, and journalists. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco) **FILE**

China’s construction binge spreads to Americas, rattles U.S.

By Juan Zamorano, Kathia Martinez and Joe McDonald - Associated Press

Diahnn &quot;Shelly&quot; Summers, right, embraces Lori Hogan, who is currently living in a tent in Summers' backyard months after Hurricane Michael hit in Youngstown, Fla, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019. &quot;This is the first time I've felt comfortable since the hurricane,&quot; said Hogan. &quot;This is home for me and I love it.&quot; A small village has popped up in Summers' backyard outside Panama City: Where there once was an empty grassy space, tents now form a circle around a fir tree with Christmas lights. The tents are currently home for local residents who are still homeless months after Hurricane Michael screamed ashore with 155-mph winds, flattening, blowing away or rendering uninhabitable thousands of houses. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

‘It’s pure hell’: Hurricane Michael leaves housing crisis

By MIKE SCHNEIDER - Associated Press

Homes sales down by third in Florida area hit by storm

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Youth greet Pope Francis as he arrives in his popemobile in the metro park Campo San Juan Pablo II, in Panama City, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019, to celebrate an early morning Mass. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

The Latest: Pope departs for Rome, ending Panama visit

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Pope Francis reads during the Way of the Cross, at Campo Santa Maria La Antigua on the occasion of the World Youth Day, in Panama City, Panama, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope challenged on sex abuse as young take stage in Panama

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Panama City to plant 100,000 trees after Hurricane Michael

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In this Oct. 24, 2018 photo, Panama City manager Mark McQueen poses for a photo near an area destroyed by Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Fla. The retired two- star general, started his new job two weeks before the storm. (AP Photo/Tamara Lush)

How a 2-star Army general took charge of a broken city

By TAMARA LUSH - Associated Press

Housing crisis explodes in Panama City after Michael

By EILEEN KELLEY - Associated Press

This Oct. 23, 2018 photo shows Regina Ferrell, a fourth grade teacher in Panama City, standing in front of her damaged condo building in Panama City, Fla. Since Hurricane Michael swept through the area, many teachers like Ferrell are sleeping in half-destroyed homes, living in cars or staying in their classrooms. (AP Photo/Tamara Lush)

‘How can I be effective?’: Teachers suffering after Michael

By FREIDA FRISARO and TAMARA LUSH - Associated Press

In this Oct. 10, 2018 photo, Shauna Benefield and Alex Edwards stand in front of their house in Marianna, Fla., which was damaged by fallen trees during Hurricane Michael. Benefield, 20, and her boyfriend, Edwards, 21, live just north of Marianna's historic downtown in his family's home and they didn't stock up. After the storm cleared, Edwards found himself driving 50 miles to DeFuniak Springs to get water, food and gas. There was nowhere nearby to get any in the immediate aftermath. (AP Photo/Brendan Farrington)

Far from coast, rural counties also recovering from Michael

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON - Associated Press

Peggy Cauley cleans up debris from her family's home in the aftermath of hurricane Michael in Mexico Beach, Fla., Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

4 days after storm, large swath of Panhandle suffering

By RUSS BYNUM and BRENDAN FARRINGTON - Associated Press

Members of a South Florida urban search and rescue team try to gain entry to a home while looking for survivors of hurricane Michael in Mexico Beach, Fla., Friday, Oct. 12, 2018. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Searches intensify after body is found in Michael’s wake

By RUSS BYNUM and BRENDAN FARRINGTON - Associated Press

In this image made from video and provided by SevereStudios.com, damage from Hurricane Michael is seen in Mexico Beach, Fla. on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. Search-and-rescue teams fanned out across the Florida Panhandle to reach trapped people in Michael's wake Thursday as daylight yielded scenes of rows upon rows of houses smashed to pieces by the third-most powerful hurricane on record to hit the continental U.S. (SevereStudios.com via AP)

Death toll rises to 6 in wake of Hurricane Michael’s rampage

By Jay Reeves and Brendan Farrington - Associated Press

Shredded trees, derailed train cars and a sunken trailer are seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Michael charges into Southeast after slamming north Florida

By Jay Reeves and Brenda Farrington - Associated Press

Heavy surf from the approaching Hurricane Michael pounds the fishing pier on Okaloosa Island in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. (Devon Ravine/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP)

Hurricane Michael slams into Florida with 155 mph winds

By Jay Reeves and Brendan Farrington - Associated Press

A couple is silhouetted against the sunset at the St. Andrews Marina in Panama City, Fla., Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018, ahead of Hurricane Michael. (Patti Blake/News Herald via AP)

The Latest: Michael still a hurricane hours after landfall

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