Perry News

A Perry man was arrested on charges of drunken driving after he dropped a cigarette, reached for it and crashed into a mailbox, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Joseph Edward Sadler, 64, of Perry, turned himself in to the Lafayette County jail on July 10, after a warrant was issued for his arrest on multiple charges, records indicate.

It only takes a few minutes with Allen Byington to understand the urgency of his message and begin to agree with him that health records need to be more than accurate.

FORT MYERS: Fort Myers Police are mourning the loss of an officer who was shot and killed by a suspect at Main & Hendry streets in downtown Fort Myers early Friday morning.

Residents in Perry say things are changing as it's now the younger crowd that law enforcement has to keep a watch on.

Thomas Henry Smith, 51, of Day, was killed in a motorcycle accident in Taylor County on July 3, according to Florida Highway Patrol reports.

Deneilo Bradshaw, 23, of Tallahassee, was listed as one of three suspects in the theft of a .25-caliber semiautomatic pistol just two days before Hoffman disappeared, according to a police incident report ...

Special agents shut down a casino-type business in one of our local communities.

Here's a look at some of the most recent work by Tallahassee's busy writers. Ann and Jeff Vandermeer have put together a comprehensive anthology called 'Steampunk' . The book includes essays and stories ...

TALLAHASSEE -- The Florida Lottery announced today that three players matched all five winning numbers in the Wednesday, June 25, Fantasy 5 drawing and will share a $230,396.34 top prize.

There's more money going out for payroll and services in the Taylor County School District, and its spending has put the district in the red for the past two years.

The family of a missing man in Taylor County is offering a reward for the 81-year-old who's been missing for more than three weeks.

Teenage boys have fantasies, and I certainly had mine back in the 1960s in Connecticut.

Larry Perry's downtown Leesburg location is a one-stop shop for Internet and Web site needs.

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum today announced that a Taylor County man has been taken into custody on charges of child pornography possession and distribution.

The war in Iraq is creating a major _ and perhaps deadly _ shortage of night vision goggles for civilian pilots who fly medical helicopters in the U.S. The National Transportation Safety Board has encouraged ...

A local physician is added to the handful of doctors that has left Taylor County recently.

Bay Town Trolley representatives announced the winner of the first "Clean Air Month" Art Contest conducted at Holy Nativity Episcopal School.

Local vet remembers fellow Marine who died at Iwo Jima By Gerald Ensley * DEMOCRAT SENIOR WRITER * May 26, 2008 Calvin Shipman conducts his own Memorial Day observance each year at Old City Cemetery.

PERRY - U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson today predicted that the Democratic National Committee will stall its decision on seating Florida and Michigan delegates - hoping that the early June primaries will resolve the ...