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Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House on June 25, 2017. (SUSAN WALSH/AP File)

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, speaks during a rally outside the White House on June 25, 2017. (SUSAN WALSH/AP File)

Sedition trial underway for Meggs, Oath Keepers leader

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tuesday, September 27, 2022
WASHINGTON — Jury selection began Tuesday in the trial of the founder of the Oath Keepers extremist group and four associates charged with seditious conspiracy, one of the most serious cases to emerge from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The NASA moon rocket stands on Pad 39B before a launch attempt for the Artemis 1 mission to orbit the moon at the Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 2, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA mission managers decided Monday, Sept. 26, 2022, to move its moon rocket off the launch pad and into shelter due to Hurricane Ian's uncertain path. (Brynn Anderson/AP File)

The NASA moon rocket stands on Pad 39B before a launch attempt for the Artemis 1 mission to orbit the moon at the Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 2, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA mission managers decided Monday, Sept. 26, 2022, to move its moon rocket off the launch pad and into shelter due to Hurricane Ian's uncertain path. (Brynn Anderson/AP File)

Hurricane Ian forces NASA to shelter moon rocket

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Monday, September 26, 2022
CAPE CANAVERAL — Hurricane Ian is prompting NASA to move its moon rocket off the launch pad and into shelter, adding weeks of delay to the lunar-orbiting test flight. Mission managers decided Monday to return the rocket to its Kennedy Space Center hangar.
Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, center, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, June 25, 2017. The trial of the founder of the Oath Keepers and four associates charged with seditious conspiracy in the attack on the U.S. Capitol is set to begin next week. (SUSAN WALSH/AP File)

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, center, speaks during a rally outside the White House in Washington, June 25, 2017. The trial of the founder of the Oath Keepers and four associates charged with seditious conspiracy in the attack on the U.S. Capitol is set to begin next week. (SUSAN WALSH/AP File)

‘Fighting fit’: Trial beginning for Meggs, Oath Keepers

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Monday, September 26, 2022
The voting was over and almost all ballots were counted. News outlets on Nov. 7, 2020, had called the presidential race for Democrat Joe Biden. But the leader of the Oath Keepers extremist group was just beginning to fight.

Zaxby’s manager caught plucking money

NEWS STAFF
Saturday, September 24, 2022
LIVE OAK — A fast food assistant manager is not in for a cluckin’ good time in the near future. Kyle Kristopher Kegley, 27, was taken into custody Thursday afternoon after a warrant for his arrest was issued by the Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office.
Cars queue to cross the border from Russia to Finland at the Vaalimaa border check point in Virolahti, Finland, on Friday. (SASU MAKINEN/Lehtikuva via AP)

Cars queue to cross the border from Russia to Finland at the Vaalimaa border check point in Virolahti, Finland, on Friday. (SASU MAKINEN/Lehtikuva via AP)

Russian men join exodus, fearing call-up to fight

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Saturday, September 24, 2022
ISTANBUL — Military-aged men fled Russia in droves Friday, filling planes and causing traffic jams at border crossings to avoid being rounded up to fight in Ukraine following the Kremlin’s partial military mobilization.

SRWMD, UF partner on snook migration study

NEWS STAFF
Saturday, September 24, 2022
LIVE OAK — The Suwannee River Water Management District and the University of Florida have extended a partnership that will assist in providing new data that will help protect the region’s water supply.
This illustration depicts NASA’s DART probe, foreground right, at the Didymos system before impact with the asteroid Dimorphos, left. (STEVE GRIBBEN/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA via AP)

This illustration depicts NASA’s DART probe, foreground right, at the Didymos system before impact with the asteroid Dimorphos, left. (STEVE GRIBBEN/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA via AP)

NASA crashing spacecraft into asteroid

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thursday, September 22, 2022
CAPE CANAVERAL — In the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. A spacecraft named Dart will zero in on the asteroid Monday, intent on slamming it head-on at 14,000 mph (22,500 kph).

Suwannee millage stays same

NEWS STAFF
Thursday, September 22, 2022
LIVE OAK — There will be no change in the millage rate for Suwannee County residents. At a five-minute public hearing Monday, the Suwannee County Board of County Commissioners unanimously approved the final millage rate and final budget for the 2022-23 fiscal year.