Liberty County, FL

Body camera footage raises legal questions about a controversial Georgia officer’s highway stop of a bus transporting the Delaware State University women’s lacrosse team. USA Today reports that the video contradicts statements Liberty County Sheriff William Bowman made Tuesday (May 10) in defending his deputies accused of racial profiling. The situation has prompted calls for a civil rights investigation.

For the fifth time in seven seasons, the Lady Seahawk softball team has advanced to the regional playoffs. The Seahawks had sustained an 8-1 loss to the Liberty County Lady Bulldogs in their May 3 opener in the 1A District 4 tournament. The top-seeded Wewahitchka Gators, after defeating Bopzeman 10-0 in their opener, went on to defeat Liberty County 1-0 in 10 innings May 5 to claim the district title.

This story has been modified from an earlier version to indicate that Franklin County remains in the playoffs.. The Liberty County Bulldogs threw a surprise curve ball to the Franklin County Seahawk softball team's playoff hopes Tuesday night in Port St. Joe, with an 8-1 win in the 1A District tournament.

BRISTOL, Fla. (WMBB) – The Liberty County football team has hired Vernon’s Gerald Tranquille as their next head coach. Tranquille spent six years at Vernon which was his first head coaching position and he led the Yellow Jackets to multiple eight-win seasons and playoff victories. He also had coaching stints as an assistant in Cairo, […]

BRISTOL, Fla. (WCTV) - The Liberty County Fire Department responded to a fire at the Tolar Pre-K Administrative Building Tuesday morning, according to the Liberty County Schools superintendent. A dispatcher at the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office described the fire as fully involved. A maintenance worker noticed the fire around...

LIBERTY COUNTY, Fla. (WCTV) - A Liberty County man was arrested on child abuse charges Tuesday afternoon following a brief standoff with deputies, according to the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded to an area behind Lake Mystic Church, which is located off County Road 12, to arrest Shane...

The Franklin County Seahawks varsity boys baseball team achieved back-to-back wins last week, as they raised their record to 16-4 as they prepare to wind down their regular season. On Monday April 18 at home, sophomore Cody Abercrombie didn't allow a single run against Liberty County, throwing a complete game...

The Wakulla High War Eagles won two of three games this past week to improve to 13-7 on the year so far. The War Eagles traveled to North Florida Christian in Tallahassee on Tuesday, April 19. John Pierini was the starter on the mound that night, throwing 4.3 strong innings. The southpaw scattered three hits, giving up two runs and striking out five. They held a 2-1 lead into the fifth inning before giving up a two-out grand slam home run to put NFC up 5-2 going into the sixth.

FORT MYERS, Fla. – FGCU softball dropped a pair of games Friday in a doubleheader defeat to Liberty, 6-2 and 5-0. In Friday's losses, FGCU fell to 13-27 overall and 6-11 in the ASUN, suffering its fifth-straight loss. Liberty improved to 30-13 overall and remains unblemished in the ASUN at 14-0, the only ASUN squad that remains undefeated in league play.

The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement (OALE) announced it has identified and charged an individual following a bomb threat made against an OALE agricultural inspection station in late March 2022.

BLOUNTSTOWN, Fla. (WMBB) – Former Blountstown head football coach Greg Jordan will be returning to lead the Tigers program after a four-year hiatus. Jordan is leaving Liberty County where he spent the previous two seasons and had an 11-9 overall record with nine wins in a second-round playoff appearance in 2021. He spent 11 years […]

FANNING SPRINGS, Fla. (WCJB) - Charles Aikens, 58, of Liberty County is facing charges for threatening to blow up an agricultural inspection station. The Florida Department of Agriculture made the arrest after an investigation.
. He faces second-degree charges for making a false bomb threat. 
Aikens is being held in the...

A Liberty County man is being charged with calling in a bomb threat against an agricultural inspection station last month. Law enforcement officials with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services charges Charles L. Aikens with making a false bomb threat, a second-degree felony. Aikens was charged while being held in the Wakulla County Jail on unrelated charges of having his bond revoked from a January 2021 case.

LIBERTY COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - No one expects to lose their life or their loved one to drinking and driving, but it happens all the time. “Most of them will never ever see anything like this, then they’ll be those who experience it first hand, then those who see it,” Liberty County Sheriff Buddy Money said.

Twin sisters Izzy and Julia Lucas are key pieces to Liberty girls lacrosse’s defense. The two have played lacrosse together longer than either can remember, and will play together collegiately at Florida Southern University. Source: The Baltimore Sun High School Sports.

A 31-year-old woman from Deland is facing a long list of charges after she fled from a drug interdiction operation at Liberty Correctional Institution last week and was found in possession of methamphetamine with Fentanyl, as well as marijuana and another woman’s driver’s license. The Liberty County Sheriff’s...

“I messed up…I shouldn’t have done that,” admitted a Ft. Pierce man after he nearly ran down two Liberty Correctional Officers after trying to speed away from a drug interdiction stop at the prison this weekend. “I was scared for having my weed. I didn’t know y’all...