Palatka News

If you want to see fireworks, all you have to do is wait until dusk and look up; somebodya s going to be lighting up the sky pretty much everywhere.

A search warrant of a Palatka home on Wednesday turned up one of the largest methamphetamine labs ever discovered in Putnam County.

The Florida Highway Patrol announced Thursday that Maj. Brent Coates has taken over the reigns as the new commander of Troop F, according to FHP Director Col.

A search warrant yielded quite a discovery on Wednesday in Palatka. The Putnam County Sheriff's Office Drug and Vice Unit and the Palatka Police Department Street Crimes Unit executed a search warrant on to a home in Palakta.

Putnam County police Tuesday night were looking for a suspect wanted in the fatal shooting of a St.

Putnam County deputies are investigating the shooting death of a 31-year-old St.

"? Stetson Kennedy, a civil rights worker, anti-Ku Klux Klan activist and Florida folklorist, on the back deck of his home in Fruit Cove, Fla., 2007, file photo.

For the second time in as many months a judge had to switch the defense attorney representing a man accused of killing his daughter's mother and her boyfriend.

Learn, return and earn WorkSource, the organization that connects workers to jobs, has developed Learn, Return and Earn, a program that provides information and easy access to training scholarships for unemployed individuals across Northeast Florida.

Crab lovers unite! Grab your mallets, picks and prepare to paddle your way to the 14th Annual Blue Crab Festival in Palatka on Memorial Day weekend, May 25-27. Palatka is in Putnam County, about halfway between St.

Palatka police arrested 12 people Friday and are searching for five others charged with illegal drug sales in the city, police officials said.

A wallet and a knife were found at the scene of a burglary Monday , and the discovery led to an arrest.

A volunteer fire chief from Putnam County was charged Monday with falsifying gas reimbursement documents and pocketing about $1,000. Robert Allen Meyer, 58, was arrested after investigators said he claimed $1,104 for 138 different service calls from Jan.

A volunteer fire chief from Putnam County has been arrested and accused of scamming the county.

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And now in the running for the dumbest criminal of the week award: Palatka police this morning charged a felon with burglarizing the county's school bus garage after finding his wallet at the crime scene and a stolen safe in his home.

If you haven't gotten a ticket yet, hurry and get one for "Love, Sex and the IRS." It's the latest by the River City Players and opens Thursday with a dress rehearsal at the Scarlett-Hill Theater in the Larimer Arts Center, 216 Reid St., Palatka.

A head-on crash near San Mateo early Monday has claimed a second life. A passenger in the car, Felipe Vazquez, 31, of Lake Placid, died at a Gainesville hospital several hours after he was evacuated by helicopter, the Florida Highway Patrol said Wednesday.

Published: Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 10:22 p.m. Personnel lapses are being blamed in the escape in mid-April of two men from the Putnam County Jail, according to an internal investigation at the jail that was released Wednesday afternoon.

One driver was killed early Monday in a head-on collision involving several vehicles on State Road 100 east of Palatka.