BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com A routine traffic stop on U.S. Highway 301 late Friday night led to the arrest of four Gainesville men, including two juveniles, after deputies discovered three s…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com Two men from outside Bradford County were arrested on Friday, March 6 after a school district employee spotted them exchanging a shotgun in a parking area adjacent…
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Bradford County’s senior 4-H team and Union County’s junior 4-H “A” team earned first-place finishes at the March 5 livestock-judging event held at the Bradford Agricultural Fair. The Bradford team of…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com North Florida’s timber industry is reeling from a cascade of mill closures and hurricane damage that has left local loggers with fewer outlets to sell their wood a…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com A Melrose man has been charged with negligent homicide more than two years after a crash that killed a Starke woman, following a Florida Highway Patrol investigati…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN Dan@BcTelegraph.com A former Bradford Middle School teacher was sentenced to one year with the Department of Corrections, four years’ sexual offender probation, and will be designated…
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The following individuals were recently arrested by local law enforcement officers in Bradford, Union, or Clay (Keystone Heights area) counties. All defendants are considered innocent until convicted…
Read MoreBY MARK J. CRAWFORD mark@bctelegraph.com Rhetoric about a proposed ICE detention center ramped up on both sides Tuesday, with Sheriff Gordon Smith stepping in to respond to public criticism of the cou…
Read MoreWayne Alvarez Stanley Wayne Alvarez, known fondly as Wayne to those who had the pleasure of knowing him, passed away quietly at his beloved farm in Bradford County on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, at the ag…
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