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Radio personality Rush Limbaugh and wife Kathryn, left, attend the State of the Union address with first lady Melania Trump in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives on Feb. 4, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (MARIO TAMA/Getty Images/TNS)

Radio personality Rush Limbaugh and wife Kathryn, left, attend the State of the Union address with first lady Melania Trump in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives on Feb. 4, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (MARIO TAMA/Getty Images/TNS)

Rush Limbaugh, ‘voice of American conservatism,’ has died

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Rush Limbaugh, the talk radio host who ripped into liberals and laid waste to political correctness with a merry brand of malice that made him one of the most powerful voices on the American right, influencing the rightward push of conservatism and the rise of Donald Trump, died Wednesday.
Devin Skipper, a Suwannee County Jail inmate, was captured Tuesday afternoon after escaping an hour earlier from a work detail. (COURTESY SCSO)

Devin Skipper, a Suwannee County Jail inmate, was captured Tuesday afternoon after escaping an hour earlier from a work detail. (COURTESY SCSO)

Making a run for it fails

JAMIE WACHTER
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
LIVE OAK — It wasn’t the best escape plan ever hatched. In fact, it doesn’t appear to have involved much — if any — planning at all.

Alcohol ‘to go’ proposal motors on

NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
TALLAHASSEE — Driving home with sealed mixed drinks or other alcoholic libations as part of “to go” meals, an option allowed during the covid-19 pandemic to help restaurants, moved closer Tuesday to becoming permanent in Florida.
A fire at a Suwannee County landfill caused a lot of smoke and visibility issues on Interstate 10. (COURTESY SUWANNEE FIRE RESCUE)

A fire at a Suwannee County landfill caused a lot of smoke and visibility issues on Interstate 10. (COURTESY SUWANNEE FIRE RESCUE)

Landfill fire smokes out interstate

JAMIE WACHTER
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
LIVE OAK — A landfill fire sparked by a busted hydraulic line Tuesday afternoon inundated Interstate 10 with smoke.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Saturday in Washington, D.C. (KENT NISHIMURA/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Saturday in Washington, D.C. (KENT NISHIMURA/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Pelosi: Independent commission will examine riot

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Monday, February 15, 2021
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday that Congress will establish an independent, Sept. 11-style commission to look into the deadly insurrection that took place at the U.S. Capitol.
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., left, and Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., stand with President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., as Trump speaks while departing after a Senate Republican Policy luncheon, on Capitol Hill on Jan. 9, 2019, in Washington. The Senate acquitted Trump on Saturday of inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. (AP FILE PHOTO)

Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., left, and Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., stand with President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., as Trump speaks while departing after a Senate Republican Policy luncheon, on Capitol Hill on Jan. 9, 2019, in Washington. The Senate acquitted Trump on Saturday of inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. (AP FILE PHOTO)

Trump acquitted, denounced in historic impeachment trial

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Saturday, February 13, 2021
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump was acquitted of inciting the horrific attack on the U.S. Capitol, concluding a historic impeachment trial that spared him the first-ever conviction of a current or former U.S. president but exposed the fragility of America’s democratic traditions and left a divided nation...

High Springs man sentenced to 15 years for drug trafficking

NEWS STAFF
Friday, February 12, 2021
Torrey Tythoneus White of High Springs has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to numerous drug trafficking and firearm charges. Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the sentence, which was handed down on Monday.