Two Lake Placid men died earlier this week after being involved in a two-vehicle accident in Putnam County. ...more

June 14, 2009

Authorities say two escaped Putnam County inmates apparently used a car jack to pry open a hole in their cell and escape. ...more

April 17, 2009

The father of a missing north Florida girl says he doesn't want the media to focus on his personal life. ...more

March 13, 2009

A missing 5-year-old girl from Putnam County will be featured on Saturday's episode of "America's Most Wanted," officials said. ...more

February 27, 2009

An anonymous pledge of $5,000 in the case of a missing Putnam County girl has boosted the reward for finding her to $25,500. ...more

February 25, 2009

The 17-year-old who was watching over 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings in northeast Florida before she went missing two weeks ago is denying reports of not being home at the time. ...more

February 20, 2009

The father of a missing 5-year-old Putnam County girl said he and his 17-year-old girlfriend have passed polygraph tests, according to CNN.com. ...more

February 12, 2009

Investigators say they are treating the disappearance of a 5-year-old Putnam County girl as an abduction because house-to-house searches of the neighborhood Wednesday offered no evidence she wandered off. Her father's dread and uncertainty is what Mark Lunsford felt four years ago when his daughter, 9-year-old Jessica Marie "Jessie" Lunsford, was abducted from her Citrus County mobile home. ...more

February 12, 2009

ST. PETERSBURG -- A former Air Force sergeant was arrested this morning in Putnam County on charges he killed his girlfriend and their baby in St. Petersburg in 2007 while he was stationed at MacDill Air Force Base. Ralph Daniel Wright Jr., 40, of 1701 Wetherbee Road, was indicted this month and charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Paula O'Conner, 37, and their 15-month-old infant son, Alijah O'Conner. ...more

December 31, 2008

About 1.7 million customers served by a group of rural electric cooperatives face the specter of higher electricity bills because the fee to transport coal by rail will be doubled by CSX Transportation in 2009. ...more

December 24, 2008