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The Palatka Golf Club turned into a showcase of Old Florida on Thursday during the kickoff of this year’s countywide book club program. 

The Palatka Golf Club turned into a showcase of Old Florida on Thursday during the kickoff of this year’s countywide book club program. 

Putnam County’s annual book club is inviting readers on a journey through Florida’s thick brush to get a taste of old Florida.

Putnam County’s annual book club is inviting readers on a journey through Florida’s thick brush to get a taste of old Florida.

The Florida Lecture Series at Florida Southern College in Lakeland opens Thursday with the author of a book about Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Six people were shot to death in Birmingham over the weekend,...

Black Lives Matter Birmingham has no confidence in police chief either. This comes after the FOP called a special meeting Wednesday night to vote. Learn more a...

AROUND HASTINGS: St. Johns County farmers start harvesting potatoes Nancy Quatrano Some of the farmers in the Hastings/Spuds/Elkton agricultural area are currently harvesting their potato crops a bit earlier than usual due to good crop growth and industry demand. A good number of the farms grow LaChipper potatoes. They are white-skinned and do well with our winter growing conditions. Sebagos are a traditional Florida variety that’s getting increasingly more difficult to find, but longtime res...

‘Not full justice’: Black Alabama leaders on Derek Chauvin guilty verdict AL.com 1 hr ago Howard Koplowitz, al.com The guilty verdict Tuesday against Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of unarmed Black man George Floyd that sparked nationwide protests last year was welcomed by leaders in Alabama’s Black community, even though they said “full justice” was not possible because Floyd is dead. “Today’s guilty verdict is accountability, but it is no...

Family demands answers in fatal Birmingham police shooting: ‘I just want to see my baby,’ grieving mom says Updated Apr 14, 2021; The grieving parents of a 28-year-old man who police say died in an Easter Sunday armed confrontation with Birmingham police are demanding answers in the slaying. His father, Desmon Ray Sr., and mother Lashonda Wilson held a news conference Wednesday outside police headquarters. They were joined by their attorneys Johnathan F. Austin and Richard Rice. The family...