Palatka News

Willie Ray Heath - Charged with selling methamphetamine, possession of methamphetamine, possession of controlled substance, possession of chemicals used to manufacture methamphetamine, maintaining a drug dwelling, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

The 61st Florida Folk Festival is at Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park in White Springs, and the 25th Palatka Blue Crab Festival is in Palatka.

Nursing students enrolled in the Palatka campus program include: Front row, from left: Sonia Rodriguez, Andrea Adams, Katharine Hersey, Tera Gwaldis, Bryanna Hall, Mary Williams and Heidi May.

Drugs and ammo were found in the car that was abandoned at the home, according to police.

Police are looking for four people who shot one person during a robbery at a McDonald's. The shooting happened at the McDonald's on Reid Street late Tuesday night.

Police say four masked and armed suspects entered the McDonald's restaurant on Reid Street just before midnight Tuesday and shot an employee, according to the Palatka Police Department.

Blue crabs, entertainment, beauty queens, a parade and a yellow duck race are all on the schedule for this year's 25th annual Blue Crab Festival in downtown Palatka.

The accident occurred around 6:10 a.m. Florida National Guard personnel who arrived before rescue workers used a flame retardant at the accident, said Florida Highway Patrol Lt.

As north Florida begins spring volume up to two weeks late, buyers can expect lower red potato supplies to keep demand high and prices above normal.

Daimin Figueroa-Batts, a junior at St. Augustine High School enrolled in an elective course at First Coast Technical College, received a gold medal in cabinetmaking; and Austin Eger, a sophomore at St.

Putnam County Sheriff's deputies tell Action News a Rottweiler found in the yard of a home off East Towles Avenue in Palatka may be responsible for biting a man's head and face.

PALATKA, Fla. -- Putnam County Sheriff's deputies are investigating a possible dog attack.

Bostwick celebrates all that's blueberry Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. as the town hosts the annual Bostwick Blueberry Festival .

A cold front will move across the area today but the higher humidity is shifting south of Jacksonville which is where scattered showers and thunderstorms will fire midday through the afternoon.

Ben Brotemarkle has been a broadcaster for years, but he doesn't speak in a radio voice.

A Putnam County grand jury has indicted Ivory Harris on a charge of first-degree murder in the April 13 stabbing death of her 76-year-old husband.

A benefit to help pay hospital costs for Trenton Stumbo, born prematurely Feb. 11, is planned from 9 p.m. to midnight Friday at Steamboat Willie's, 309 St.

Get ready to give a standing ovation - the Palatka High School Theatre Department is back and performing the musical "Hairspray" this week.

Students from St. Johns River State College celebrate moments before marching in the spring commencement.

The Putnam County Sheriff's Office put undercover offices on the streets Friday to purchase drugs from street level dealers in East Palatka and the Putnam Hall area of Putnam County, according to a release from the Putnam County Sheriff's Office.