Vontago Smith was on his way home the night of Sept. 13, walking along a dimly lit stretch of State Road 12 in Havana, when he got hit by a vehicle that seemed to come out of nowhere.
Tallahassee police arrested man early Monday, Nov. 17, after he allegedly stole both a forklift and an ATM and tried to make a painfully slow getaway with both in the predawn darkness.
A group of people hoping to preserve Carr Cemetery, an all but abandoned grave site off North Meridian Road, visited the property as concerns continue about proposed nearby development.
A former Florida State University instructor who went to police to report he was being blackmailed for watching child porn was sentenced Sept. 18 at the U.S. Courthouse in Tallahassee.
A tentative trial date has been set for Daniel Spencer, who is charged in the murder of his 5-year-old stepdaughter, Missy Mogle, though it may be pushed back.
“I wish that every day of her remaining days she thinks about the harm she has caused to so many, especially those two boys she claims to have loved so much.”