Welaka News

The staff at the Blackwater Fisheries Research and Development Center has been busy this spring producing more than 4 million fish for Florida waters.

Published: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 4:05 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 at 4:05 p.m. Personnel lapses and equipment failures are being blamed for a situation that allowed two men to escape from the Putnam County Jail in mid-April, according to a internal investigation at the jail that was released Wednesday afternoon.

PROMOTION Get a taste of Memphis BBQ sauce Patsy Cunningham, CEO of Cunningham's Memphis Gourmet BBQ Sauce, will be at the Lake Ella Shopping Center Publix Friday through Monday promoting the company's sauces, which will be on sale for the Memorial Day weekend.

BEACON PHOTO/PAT HATFIELD Talking water - St. Johns Riverkeeper Neil Armingeon talks water with Janet Smith of the Women's Club of Welaka during a break at a St.

Readers of Susan Hughes' guest column on April 26, cheering the siphoning of the St.

A young Welaka, Fla., woman reported she was attacked and sexually battered by a man with a knife in her home early Thursday morning.

Detectives are working a case of a possible sexual battery on a woman outside of Welaka in Putnam County.

A massive manhunt in Putnam County ended just after 6 p.m. Saturday with the capture of two fugitives that escaped from the Putnam County Jail on early Wednesday morning.

Indiana police are on alert for two men who escaped from the Putnam County Jail before dawn Wednesday.

Authorities caught two men on Saturday who are suspected of killing a 66-year-old woman after they escaped from a Florida jail earlier this week.Two deputies tackled Doni Ray Brown and Timothy Wayne Fletcher during a foot chase in Pomona Park in the northern part of the state, said Putnam County Sheriff's spokesman Lt.

Officials are on the lookout for two jail inmates who escaped this week, and the family of one of the suspects has a lot of questions.

More than 24 hours after authorities began searching for two men who escaped from the Putnam County Jail, the invstigation expanded to include two stolen vehicles and the suspicious death of the 66-year-old stepgrandmother of one of the escapees.

Authorities are searching for two inmates who have escaped from the Putnam County Jail in Palatka.

Northeast Florida leaders, residents and river watchdogs are blasting a decision by the St.

Coats of purple paint are dry and freshly cut carpet covers the floor of a small former restaurant in southern Putnam County where the wait continues for the return of Haleigh Cummings.

BOB SELF/The Times-Union Newlyweds Ronald and Misty Cummings are set to appear this morning on the "Today" show to recount the late-night disappearance of his 5-year-old daughter and its aftermath.

It's a day they say they've been waiting for. Haleigh's father, Ronald Cummings, and his new bride Misty, tied the knot Thursday afternoon in an outdoor ceremony in Welaka.

The father of a 5-year-old girl missing for more than a month told a national television audience Friday that he doesn't want the media to focus on his personal life.

It's official. Ronald Cummings and Misty Croslin are now husband and wife. The 25-year-old father of missing Haleigh Cummings, and his 17-year-old girlfriend, tied the knot Thursday in a top secret ceremony at ...

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