Hernando News

Nathalia Katherin Botero, a freshman majoring in microbiology at the University of Rochester, was recently named to the Dean's List for academic achievement for the fall 2012 semester.

Bond $1,000. * Timothy Delaney , 53, of North Shorewood Drive, Hernando, at 4:43 p.m. Wednesday on an Iberia County, La., warrant for stolen property.

Chelsea Huggett, charged with first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse in the death of Aliyah Branum, also told an emergency dispatcher that her daughter was alive and breathing just 20 minutes earlier, according to a recording of the nearly nine-minute call released this week by the Citrus County Sheriff's Office.

The pregnant mother accused of slamming her daughter's head into a wall with such force that it left her with a fractured skull is not getting out of jail any time soon.

On April 25, Huggett violently shook 2-year-old Aliyah Marie Branum at a house in the Citrus County town of Hernando, according to an arrest affidavit.

Take a walk down Julia Way in Hernando and you will hear neighbors talking about the two-year-old girl who was murdered there Friday.

The Hernando County Commission is fine with congested roads and welcomes them in the future as the county's population grows.