Today's News

“Brah! Braah! Wah! Whaa!, A’rau-ow!”
“Thank, God,” the unsettling, early morning silence had been broken by a wonderful flock of Canadian geese flying overhead.
The sound of the geese was the first I had heard upon arising from my usual 5 a.m., except for the harsh ringing in my ears that had awakened me in a near panic earlier, at 2:34 a.m., when I thought an alarm was going off in the house.
The dog was also calling me to let him out of his cage and into our warm bed.

On Thursday, Dec. 28, around 8 a.m., Gadsden County Sheriff’s Office responded to a mobile home on Treebark Court in Havana. According to a GCSO press release, the wife of John Clayton Partin had reported to law enforcement that he was distraught and suicidal.
Deputies attempted to make contact with the man. His wife told them there were weapons in the home, and he had barricaded himself inside. The Leon County Sheriff’s Office and their SWAT and Hostage Negotiations assisted GCSO.

Kevin Johnson, who pleaded guilty in 2012 for the 2010 murder of 92-year-old Eunice “Sunny” Lester, was back in Quincy before Judge Barbara Hobbs on Tuesday for an evidentiary hearing.
Johnson, 33, pleaded guilty in 2012 to premeditated first-degree murder, carjacking without a weapon and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon causing great bodily harm to a person 65 years or older.