Grand Ridge News

MARIANNA POLICE The Marianna Police Department listed the following incidents for Nov.

The Sneads volunteer fire department soon will have another weapon in its arsenal - a new jaws of life.

Jackson County authorities say a small fire in a room at Microtel on Highway 71 near Interstate 10 Saturday began as the result of someone's attempt to make methamphetamine.

On the evening of Saturday, October 31, 2009 Jackson County Fire Rescue and Deputies with the Jackson County Sheriff's Office responded to the report of a fire at the Microtel Inn and Suites located on Whitetail Drive in Marianna, Florida.

The weather forecasters were right for once this year and maybe more than once, we did have cool weather for the opening weekend of the firearms deer season.

The Community Safety Coalition will be hosting a fundraising event to benefit educational programs in health, safety, and drug prevention for all residents in the Jackson County, Florida, area.

The search for a missing Jackson County man has a happy ending tonight. Sheriff's investigators found 29-year-old Kenneth Haley III this morning at the home of a friend from church.

On Wednesday, October 21, 2009, at approximately 10:36 a.m., the Jackson County Sheriff's Office received a report of a missing person from 2408 Bluff Road in Grand Ridge Florida.

The Carlisle Floyd House at Millstone Institute for Preservation is nothing fancy.

A woman was killed when she lost control of her car Monday on a rainy highway, sliding off the road and hitting two trees, state troopers said.

The first year of high school is supposed to be filled with good times with old friends, meeting new friends and getting adjusted to high school life.

Published: Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 1:27 a.m. Barbara Hodge has only vague memories of the one-room wooden church she attended as a little girl.

On Wednesday, September 09, 2009, Fletcher Lee Basford was arrested as the result of an investigation being conducted by the Criminal Investigations Division of the Jackson County Sheriff's Office.

Since Thursday, the Jackson County Drug Task Force has detained four men in three separate methamphetamine busts.

Alford resident Dawna McAlpin has taken steps to make sure she never falls victim to the "curse of the lottery." She secured all but 8 percent of her winnings, placing them in a protected and growing portfolio for her children.

A Jackson County man has been jailed on a charge of cultivation of marijuana after deputies raided a pot farming operation Wednesday in Grand Ridge.. Grand Ridge Pot Growning marijuana bust 200x120 Font Size: A Jackson County man has been jailed on a charge of cultivation of marijuana after deputies raided a pot farming operation Wednesday in Grand ...

In about six weeks, some 30 to 40 pot plants collected by the Jackson County Sheriffa s Office Wednesday would have matured and been worth about $38,000 on the street, according to members of the Jackson County Drug Task Force.

On the afternoon of August 26, investigators with the Jackson County Drug Task Force concluded an ongoing two-month investigation into the cultivation of marijuana in the Grand Ridge area.

One Jackson County woman is the newest Florida Lotto millionaire. 33-year-old Dawna McAlpin found out this morning her $5 quick pick ticket was worth $15 million dollars.

The Florida Lottery announced today that one ticket matched the six winning numbers in Wednesday's Lotto drawing.