Tag Archives: Bradford County

North Central Florida agencies increasingly use Facebook and other social media sites as a method to find suspects, gather evidence and give residents crime updates.

Workers at Starke Elementary School help to insure the building will be safe for students by March 18, 2014. The school was closed Aug. 23 due to mold, and students were relocated to nearby schools.

Starke Elementary School will reopen March 18th, according to a Bradford County School District press release. The school was closed Aug. 23 after a building health report determined there was a mold problem. Students resumed classes at alternate locations on Sept. 3.

Florida executed William Happ on Tuesday for a 1986 murder. The state used a new lethal injection drug, midazolam hydrochloride. Happ was Florida's sixth execution of 2013.

Attempting to make voter registration list maintenance more transparent, Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner announced Wednesday “Project Integrity,” a series of discussions among election supervisors in October across the state.

Nine were arrested Saturday after an Bradford County Sheriff's Office undercover investigation led to a pill mill bust in the western part of the county.

As a new school year begins in Bradford County, an elementary school principal says, “Students are not dreaming the way they used to." Stephanie Nash of Brooker Elementary, above, is one teacher trying to find a remedy.

Recycled cardboard boxes have replaced fidgety schoolchildren for now in kindergarten classroom 203 at the vacant Starke Elementary School.

Starke Elementary will re-open Sept. 3, once mold issues are solved. In the meantime students who attend the school will be relocated to nearby area schools.

Starke Elementary School will be closed on Friday, Aug. 23 because of mold. Students will return to classes at alternate schools on Sept. 3.