Starke News

Because of the budget crunch, School Board members are taking a second look at their plan to close the small DeLand elementary By Jennifer Horton posted Nov 7, 2009 - 2:25:14pm The clock is ticking for Edith I. Starke Elementary School in DeLand, which is slated to close after the current school year ends.

Although Volusia County Schools have continued to lose students for a third consecutive year, some schools -- because of geography -- remain crowded.

Published: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 6:55 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 6:55 p.m. Two Lake Butler men were in custody Tuesday on drug and theft charges following a three-month investigation in western Union County.

Staff Sgt. Johnny Richardson of the Florida National Guard was among the first ground troops to invade Iraq in 2003.

About 2,400 U.S. soldiers from around Florida are preparing for deployment. Before they leave, they are put through rigourous training to prepare them for what they may encounter overseas.

Photos by BOB SELF/The Times-Union Wrestling fans Daulton Dyals , 12, and his mother Kimberly Castell, both of Orange Park, scream their support for Triple H and Shawn Michaels at the nationally-televised Monday Night Raw at Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena.

Published: Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 11:34 p.m. Sixteen attorneys primarily from North Central Florida have applied to fill two judicial vacancies in the 8th Circuit.

The Florida Power & Light Company must pay a $25 million penalty for a massive outage that left nearly one million homes and businesses without power last year.

Those people are just ... trailer trash! And so they are in a Starke, Fla., mobile home community called Armadillo Acres.

A drug bust that began in the air wound up netting charges related to stolen firearms.

A former president of the North Florida Regional Chamber of Commerce was arrested Wednesday on an outstanding charge of fraudulently obtaining property.

Suwannee Countians, it's time to speak your mind! How? By calling the Suwannee Democrat Rant and Rave hotline.

Gov. Charlie Crist has signed a death warrant for Paul Beasley Johnson who killed a deputy sheriff and two other people in 1981 in slayings in Lake and Polk counties.

An autopsy performed Tuesday afternoon found the robbery suspect in a Bradford County shootout with police killed himself.

The North Central Florida missed payroll for 200 employees this week. Published: Saturday, October 3, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 2, 2009 at 11:23 p.m. The North Central Florida YMCA did not pay the 200 employees in its eight-county region this week - the result, officials said, of a one-time retirement fund payout on top of ...

A Florida death-row inmate convicted of abducting and murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford in 2005 has died, prison officials said Wednesday.

On September 28, 2009 at approximately 2:31 PM, Detective Kevin Mueller from Bradford County Sheriffa s Office and Investigator James Hooper from Starke Police Department were following up on an armed robbery suspect from a prior incident.

A Florida death-row inmate convicted of abducting and murdering 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford in 2005 has died, prison officials said Wednesday.

A day after a robbery suspect in Starke was killed in a shootout with a Bradford County deputy, investigators said they have recovered the car that they said the suspect used in the robbery.

Investigators with the Bradford County Sheriffa TMs Office tell Action News they went to N.W. 37th Avenue to check out a tip this afternoon.