Hamilton County News

During the summer the Consortium of Florida Education Foundations conducted a survey on what county school board members felt were problems areas in Florida education.

A Lake City man who raced across Hamilton and Suwannee counties in a stolen tow truck was arrested east of Live Oak early Saturday, sheriff's records show.

A round table panel was held in Jasper today to discuss the approval of the biofuel plant in Hamilton County.

Representatives from Duke Energy, AREVA and ADAGE joined Hamilton County residents and county representatives Tuesday to discuss job creation and local economic development through ADAGE's planned biomass project in Hamilton County.

The Jennings Mini-Mart was robbed last night at 8:30 p.m. by two masked men, one dressed in black and the other wearing a pink shirt, sheriff's reports show.

JASPER, Fla. -- Building a giant biopower plant in Hamilton County will generate the two things rural North Florida needs most -- jobs and clean energy -- executives of a new power consortium told county officials today.

SUWANNEE COUNTY Interstate 10 The eastbound rest area located just west of the Interstate 75 interchange is scheduled to be completely closed Wednesday and Thursday for placement of the pavement markings.

Kenneth Douglas added to his ghoulish count Monday, admitting he had sex with two more bodies while he worked at the Hamilton County morgue.

A Lake City man died in a high-speed crash in Hamilton County early today, according to FHP.

SUWANNEE COUNTY US 129 Daytime lane closures between U.S. 27 and the Hamilton County line to allow inmate crews to repaint the roadway markings.

Two Tennessee men attempted to rob a local convenience store Sunday night, according to police reports.

Dan Anderson Thomas, a physicist who became Jacksonville University's vice president and dean of faculties, died Saturday at the Community Hospice of Northeast Florida's McGraw Center for Caring.

Gloria Ballard was due in a Hamilton County on Wednesday to face an assault charge.

A former Indiana money manager who tried to fake his own death by jumping out of a small plane before it crashed in Florida appeared in court via video on Tuesday to face charges that he bilked a family member, friends and other clients out of $1.5 million.

COLUMBIA COUNTY Interstate 75 The northbound rest area located just south of U.S. 41/441 is scheduled to be completely closed beginning Sunday night and continuing through Thursday for resurfacing.

Stretches of Interstate 75 are completely shut down in both directions in Hamilton County after a tractor trailer transporting several types of hazardous chemicals overturned and caught fire early this morning.

A tractor-trailer carrying hazardous materials overturned and caught on fire on Interstate 75 in Hamilton County early Tuesday morning, forcing the highway to close for more than six hours and keeping some lanes closed for over nine hours.

A two-mile radius surrounding the crash of a tractor-trailer on I-75 was evacuated early Tuesday morning when it was learned that toxic chemicals were released in the accident.

Florida Highway Patrol says a tractor- trailer carrying flammable chemicals lost control and flipped over on I-75 around Hamilton County, road 132 around 5am Tuesday morning.

A two-mile radius surrounding an early morning traffic crash site was evacuated as Florida Highway Patrol Troopers and Hamilton County sheriff's deputies responded to a vehicle crash which led to a toxic spill just after 5 a.m. this morning.