1 year in jail after flunking probation

1 year in jail after flunking probation

  • January 3, 2024
  • Dan Hildebran

STARKE— Edward Lowell Canada Jr. was arrested for DUI on April 20, 2019, after he crashed his white Chevrolet Cruze into a curb and sidewalk near Starke’s Colley Road and South Water Street. A Starke…

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HIV-positive inmate bit officer’s thumb

HIV-positive inmate bit officer’s thumb

  • January 3, 2024
  • Dan Hildebran

STARKE—A Miami man was sentenced to 4-and-a-half years after pleading to biting a correctional officer's thumb while the immate knew he was HIV-positive. Thirty-seven-year-old Travis T. Scott was serv…

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Prison for attacking woman with guitar

Prison for attacking woman with guitar

  • January 3, 2024
  • Dan Hildebran

STARKE— Benjamin Ozer Benoit will spend the next 17 months in prison after pleading to felony battery-repeat offender on December 13. Starke police arrested the 42-year-old Church Street resident on A…

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Probation for choking woman after breakup

Probation for choking woman after breakup

  • January 3, 2024
  • Dan Hildebran

STARKE—A 54-year-old Starke man was sentenced to 30 months’ probation after pleading to pushing and choking his ex. Walter Jarrod Davis pleaded to felony domestic battery by strangulation. According t…

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2024 is another big election year

  • January 2, 2024
  • Mark J. Crawford

BY MARK J. CRAWFORD Telegraph Editor Voters in Bradford County have the opportunity to fill multiple elected positions this year, both by running for office and casting their ballots. There are seats…

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Obituaries — Jan. 2, 2024

  • January 2, 2024
  • Cliff Smelley

Dewey Addison Sr. Dewey Gilford Addison Sr., 86, known for his skills as a handyman and for selling his famous peanuts, passed away on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023, at his home in Lake Butler. He was born…

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Dealership exercises option on U.S. 301 lot

  • January 2, 2024
  • Dan Hildebran

BY DAN HILDEBRAN General manager STARKE—A limited partnership controlled by Jacksonville’s Scott-McRae Automotive Group Inc. has purchased the lot on which the company now operates Starke’s Duval Chev…

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