Palatka News

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.

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. -- St. Johns County is having another growth spurt. It leads the First Coast with the number building permits.

Two people were arrested and three children were removed from a home in a meth lab bust in Palatka on Monday.

The merger is expected to be finalized later this year and will give Fort Pierce-based Harbor Community Bank an additional four branch locations on top of the 13 the bank already has.

A 41-year-old Daytona North woman wasn't about to let two repo men take her black Mustang, and armed herself with a rifle before asking them to leave and firing one shot at the ground in their general direction, according to a Flagler County sheriff's spokeswoman.

Do you remember the social media campaigns to "spot the shuttle" as NASA ferried three retired orbiters from Kennedy Space Center to museums across the country last year? . During the next few days, area residents can try to "spot the tank." A 200-foot barge carrying a mockup shuttle external tank and other artifacts is expected to depart KSC ... (more)

Lauderhill Firefighters' Retirement System, Palatka, Fla., is searching for an active emerging markets equity manager to run about $1 million, confirmed Steven Roth, director of manager research at Dahab Associates , the $48 million pension fund's investment consultant.