Melrose News

PATRICK C. LEONARD/Palatka Daily News Morgan Leppert sits with her attorney Christoper Smith before her sentencing Sept.

Two people are dead after a car plowed into the back of a school bus in Clay County Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.

The 16-year-old girl who helped her boyfriend beat, stab, then suffocate an elderly Melrose man will spend the rest of her life behind bars.

Submitted by Don Oliver on Thu, 09/24/2009 - 10:37. If not for a Florida State University sweat shirt, Kimberly Meredith probably would never had been found alive.

Putnam County officials are seeking a missing 21-year-old woman last seen near Melrose who they say is in danger.

The Putnam County Sheriff's Office is asking the public if they have any information on a woman from Melrose, Fla.

As fellow soldiers in South Dakota honor an airman who was killed in Afghanistan Saturday, people in North Central Florida take the time to remember Staff Sgt.

Gov. Mike Rounds is asking that all flags in South Dakota be flown at half-staff on Saturday in honor of an Ellsworth Air Force Base airman who died in combat in Afghanistan.

The Department of Defense has identified 825 American service members who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations.

As of Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009, at least 756 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department.

An Air Force sergeant who grew up in Starke and lived in Melrose died Saturday in combat operations in Afghanistan.

Here are the latest Crime Watch incidents reported by the agency's Community Relations Unit: Thefts Aug.

Morgan Leppert watches the members of the jury as lead prosecutor for the state Chris France delivers his closing arguments Thursday, August 13, 2009 in Leppert's murder trial for the 2008 slaying of James Stewart in Melrose.

The first link deputies made between 15-year-old runaway Morgan Leppert and 66-year-old James Stewart was a call from his Melrose home to her cell phone in April 2008.

The first link deputies made between 15-year-old runaway Morgan Leppert and 66-year-old James Stewart was a call from his Melrose home to her cell phone in April 2008.

The first link deputies made between 15-year-old runaway Morgan Leppert and 66-year-old James Stewart was a call from his Melrose home to her cell phone in April 2008.

The first link deputies made between 15-year-old runaway Morgan Leppert and 66-year-old James Stewart was a call from his Melrose home to her cell phone in April 2008.

Testimony begins Tuesday in the trial of 16-year-old Morgan Leppert. She is on trial for the murder of 66-year-old James Stewart in Melrose in Putnam County.

Clay County Sheriff's Office Detectives from the Clay County Sheriff's Office Robbery-Homicide Unit investigate a tip that a homicide occurred nearly 30 years ago in Keystone Heights; according to the tip, Benjamin J. Parker was killed.

Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler and State Attorney Angela Corey announced an arrest Tuesday in the killing of Benjamin Parker, whose death nearly three decades ago was never reported.