Bascom News

A local man who spent nearly a year in prison for a sex crime against an underage victim is again accused of a sex offense against a juvenile.

On 6/28/09 the Jackson County Sheriff's Office received a report of a minor child, 15 years of age, that had been sexually molested.

State Sen. Jim King, a former Senate president and fixture in the Capitol for more than two decades, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, a spokeswoman said Saturday.

Circuit Judge William Wright seemed apologetic Friday afternoon when he granted a defense motion to dismiss a manslaughter charge against Jarvise Antwan Baker midway through trial.

Gianna Simmons was locked in her bedroom when she heard the shotgun blast that killed her friend Lonnie Baxter.

Five women and two men will sit this week as jurors in the shotgun killing of a Bascom man.

A man convicted last month of aggravated assault with a firearm in Jackson County was sentenced to 20 years in prison for that offense Tuesday.

By 35 votes, Marianna Mayor James Wise was re-elected to the Marianna City Commission Tuesday, based on unofficial results for the city's election.

A 19-year-old Bascom resident was charged late Thursday after he failed to stop for a Marianna police officer.

The water levels are receeding farther upstream along the Apalachicola and Chipola rivers.

MARIANNA POLICE The Marianna Police Department listed the following incidents for March 2, the latest available report: One reckless driver, one suspicious person, one highway obstruction, one burglary of a ...

On the evening of March 2, investigators with the Holmes County Sheriff's Office, Chipley Police Department and Florida Highway Patrol Contraband Interdiction Unit teamed up with the Jackson County Drug Task ...

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