Raiford News

The Tampa Bay Times reports that Gary Alvord died Sunday at the Union Correctional Institution in Raiford.

Gov. Rick Scott has signed three active death warrants in recent weeks, the most any governor has signed in more than two decades.

A pre-dawn Tuesday blaze so high and bright that one firefighter said "it was as if the sun was coming up" destroyed a storage building and seriously damaged another at the New River East Correctional Facility near Raiford.

Gov. Rick Scott has signed a death warrant for a man convicted of killing two women and leaving a third woman for dead.

Michael Heeder, Public Information Officer with Bradford County Emergency Management said early Tuesday morning firefighters responded to a fire at the New River Correctional facility in Raiford.

Gov. Rick Scott has signed a death warrant for a man convicted of killing two women and leaving a third woman for dead.

The Florida Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of an Orange County man who gunned down his wife at a Pine Hills day-care center on Valentine's Day 2001.

Early voting days and sites would be expanded under a bill that was sent to Gov.

The governor's office announced Friday that 58-year-old William Van Poyck is scheduled to die by lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Raiford at 6 p.m., June 12.

Harold Gene Lucas, on Florida's death row since Feb. 10, 1977 for gunning down a Bonita Springs teen, could have a date with the executioner soon by virtue of a bill now awaiting the governor's signature.