Havana News

A tree fell through a mobile home pinning a man underneath debris on the 100 block of Cherokee Drive in the Ochlockonee Estates subdivision, said Jim Corder, Gadsden County Sheriff's spokesman.

A 14-year-old Valdosta girl was killed when an oak tree fell on the vehicle she was riding in on Thomasville Road at Horseshoe Plantation Road, the Florida Highway Patrol is reporting.

Each year, local civic organizations recognize outstanding law-enforcement officers for their outstanding work in Gadsden County.

Hot wheels ... scantily clad rollerbladers and Beautiful People are taking over Miami.

If you're a long-time Tallahasseean, you've probably seen Dennis Belk's work. You just didn't know it.

Brilliant, soothing, eclectic, dominate and sexy are just some of the adjectives that best describes Brian Mackey, a newcomer to the music scene, however Mackey's paid his dues.

"The long guns that we located in the trunk were actually covered up by a sheet which in itself is suspicious.

Summer has unrolled like a green-gold carpet before us. As the days grow longer with the approach of the solstice, it seems like there are more hours to fill with fun.

The Gadsden County Humane Society continues to find interesting ways to fund its projects.

The official said the Cubans also indicated an interest in holding talks on counter-narcotics, counter-terrorism and hurricane disaster responses - areas where the two countries have had sporadic cooperation in the decades since the US broke off diplomatic ties and imposed an embargo.

Elder Franklin Rush always has had a long-range vision. When he was growing up on Fleischmann Plantation in the 1930s, he watched as the people in the 'big house' took the best beans and corn from the crops Rush's family grew, leaving the Rushes with the puny remains.

Grant Chapel A.M.E., 318 W. Central Ave., will have a Fellowship Program on Sunday, May 17, at 3 p.m. The guest speaker will be the Rev.

Eugene Robinson, columnist for The Washington Post, MSNBC political commentator, recent Pulitzer Prize winner for political commentary and author of Coal to Cream: A Black Man's Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race and Last Dance in Havana: The Final Days of Fidel and the Start of the New Cuban Revolution, spoke at the Tallahassee Book ...

Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory in Panacea holds its first-ever fundraiser from 4 to 7 p.m. May 17.

Tuesday evening the Gadsden County Commission approved a request by the Boys & Girls Club of the Big Bend to close its Quincy facility in order to open a club in Havana.

I'm a gringo, but I've always felt a bit Cubano, having grown up in Miami in the 1960s when the city became a haven for exiles from the communist island.

Daniel Rodriguez, the last man to run Cuba's famed El Corojo plantation before the Cuban revolution and an instrumental force in improving the quality of tobacco grown in Nicaragua, died April 21 in Miami.

In January, the newly formed Havana Democratic Club was establishing its 2009 priorities, and club members decided that doing something with the old Havana Elementary School was a good place to start.

Timecca Eugenia Herring of Attapulgus was inducted in the Beta Iota Omicron Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa at Keiser University on Dec.

The Tallahassee metro area has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the state, but area residents are feeling the pinch of the economy with 12,972 of them unemployed.