BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor KEYSTONE HEIGHTS— A Putnam County jury convicted a 30-year-old Melrose man on two counts of first-degree murder after a three-day trial in Palatka. Mark Wilson Jr. now…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— Gainesville police arrested a Bradford County man after they said he stole $1,000 worth of LEGO sets from a Butler Plaza Walmart. Richard Fredrick Torrey, III,…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE—A Clay County Sheriff’s Office Lieutenant has been arrested for driving under the influence for the second time within 10 months. Christopher Coldiron was arrest…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— One man is hospitalized, and another is in jail after an argument involving four people in the parking lot of Lawtey’s Fast Track convenience store ended in gun…
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The following individuals were arrested recently by local law enforcement officers in Bradford, Union or Clay (Keystone Heights-area) counties. All defendants are considered innocent until convicted i…
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BY CLIFF SMELLEY Telegraph Staff Writer Santa Fe College can boast of several number-one rankings, but its president, Paul Broadie, said the school is continually striving to move forward and “tranSFo…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor GREEN COVE SPRINGS— Volunteers opened the first batch of mail-in ballots for the Nov. 8 general election on Monday, Oct. 17, at the Supervisor of Elections Office. Elec…
Read MoreBY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— A Canadian-based manufacturer of construction materials is close to announcing a new plant near the intersection of US 301 and Clay County Road 218, four miles…
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BY DAN HILDEBRAN Monitor Editor STARKE— Since the 1920s, residents and visitors to Kingsley Lake noticed that among the course white sand along the lake’s beaches, thin streaks of a black, silky subst…
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