Jefferson County News

According to Michelle Bono, assistant to the city manager, 220 City of Tallahassee customers are still without power.

The chairman of the Leon County Democratic Party resigned today to begin an eco-friendly campaign for the Florida House, challenging first-term Rep.

Initial radar estimates show that parts of eastern Leon County and western-central Jefferson County may have received as much as three or four inches of rain within an hour during this evening's storm, according to Paul Duval with the National Weather Service.

Meteorologist Brian Mroczka said that the National Weather Service is continuing to investigate the tornado warnings out in the Southeastern part of Leon County.

The driver who crashed into several vehicles and injured himself and three others Saturday at the Watermelon Festival said he lost consciousness just before the wreck.

Panic broke out today a block from the Watermelon Festival in downtown Monticello after a man crashed his car into two vehicles, injuring himself and three others.

The cry of 'Batter up!' gets a baseball enthusiast's attention, and 'Let's rumble!' is the shout that starts the roller derby bouts.

It has to be one of Mother Nature's sweetest coincidences that watermelons are ripe and ready for the market just as summer's thermostat is jacked up by the season's first real heat wave.

Monticello Police say two people were airlifted to a hospital after a major car accident Saturday in Jefferson County.

Like most other Americans, I feel helpless and unable to affect our rattled national economy.

Authorities said a naked intruder startled a woman in her home west of Denver, then fled in a sheet to another home where he was discovered wearing women's clothing.

Just recently, we told you about an area Boys and Girls Club that was faced with boarding up its doors, leaving many children with no where to go for after school care.

Besides celebrating its 135th anniversary Sunday, the Casa Bianca Missionary Baptist Church in Waukennah will dedicate a new learning center that will serve Jefferson County youth.

For some it was just a leisurely day out on the Wacissa River. A sturdy rope hanging from a tree serves as hours of fun for local kids.

What one was the body of a strong roping horse is now down to protruding hips and ribs.

These days, Superintendent Bill Brumfield finds himself frequently turning to passages in the brown leather Bible resting on his desk.

THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH AROUND 10 MPH AND WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO EASTERN THOMAS AND WESTERN BROOKS COUNTIES WITHIN THE NEXT 10 TO 15 MINUTES.

With Sen. Al Lawson term-limited and leaving state government to run for Congress, Panhandle politics will be moving forward without one of its biggest players in Tallahassee.

In Jefferson County, the Veterans of Foreign Wars spent Memorial Day visiting veterans who may not otherwise be able to celebrate on this holiday.

I hate quotation. Tell me what you know." Ralph Waldo Emerson. Tomorrow is Ralph Waldo Emerson's birthday! He never visited Tallahassee! No matter what you might have read.