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The Blountstown Tigers and Chipley Tigers have met many times over the years, but Friday night’s game at newly named Ted Cooper Stadium might be remembered for years to come as the most exciting of the series.
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BY COACH LEANNA HALL
This past Saturday, the Altha Lady Wildcats participated in a volleyball tournament at Chipley High School where they competed with many teams. Beating Holmes County and losing to Walton, they were placed in the silver division.
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CALHOUN COUNTY
Sept. 3: Euga Lee Edenfield, domestic battery
Sept. 4: Mardreon Taforrest Gatlin, sexual battery with deadly weapon; Kevin Johnson, domestic battery
Sept. 5: Richard Flanders, violation of probation; Cardonial Thomas, violation of probation; Rodney Dewayne Adkison, violation of probation
Sept. 6: Dorothy Mae Howard, battery
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A Hosford woman is behind bars accused of murdering her boyfriend Friday night during a domestic dispute.
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A Calhoun County couple had no idea what they had won when they had the winning bid on a storage warehouse in Pensacola.
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BY KELLI PEACOCK DUNN
News Editor
The Blountstown Police Department has arrested seven employees from the local Alco store, along with one relative of an employee, in a major theft case.
Charles Swearington, 39, Austin Lee Scott, 24, Robert Lee Miller, 48, and Bradley Terry, 23, are all charged with grand theft over $ 5000, but under $ 10,000, and conspiracy to commit grand theft. Thomas Franklin McCourt, 18, Jeremiah Cain Grzegorcyzk, 18, Standish Allum Croley, 18, and Kathryn Olivia Murphy, 20, have all been charged with conspiracy to commit grand theft and principal in the first degree to grand theft.
According to the BPD, several thousand dollars worth of merchandise has been stolen from the business over the past couple months.
All suspects were booked into the Calhoun County Jail with the exception of Scott. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
Check out this week’s print edition for all the details.
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A Blountstown man has been charged with sexual battery with a deadly weapon after alleging raping a woman at knifepoint.
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Calhoun County Commissioner Darrell McDougald (district 2) offers the following response to last week’s “Your Money” article regarding fuel and travel expenses for county employee Sonny O’Bryan. Next week, we will follow up with comments from the other commissioners, plus more details on this budgetary item.
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Joyce Ann McCardle, age 78, of Malone, Florida passed away Friday, September 21, 2012 in Dothan, Alabama. She was born in Napoleonville, Louisiana March 22, 1934 to the late Jewels P. and Viola (Geautreau) Bergeron. Joyce Ann was a homemaker and was a member of New Harmony Free Will Baptist Church in Grangeburg, Alabama.
Other than her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Gary McCardle, Sr.; a brother, Edward Bergeron; and a sister, Rose Ledet’.
Survivors include two sons, Mack J. Pitre, Jr. of Panama City, Florida and Gary McCardle, Jr. of Malone; two daughters, Sandra Major and her husband, Karl, of Lettsworth, Louisiana and Melissa Johnson of Blountstown, Florida; six grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and a brother, of Houma, Louisiana.
Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m., Thursday, September 27, 2012 in the Chapel at Adams Funeral Home in Blountstown. Interment will follow at 1:30 p.m. in New Harmony Free Will Baptist Church Cemetery in Grangeburg, Alabama. The family will receive friends 6:00-8:00 p.m., Wednesday, September 26 at the funeral home.
Adams Funeral Home in Blountstown is in charge of the arrangements. Phone 1-850-5449.
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The County Record received news tips Monday that a female officer at Calhoun Correctional Institution is being investigated for allegedly bringing K2 and tobacco products into the facility for inmates. Prison officials did not confirm or deny these allegations, but advised an “incident” had occurred and more details would be available soon. The County Record went to press on Tuesday morning and the report had not yet been issued at that time. We hope to have it first thing Wednesday morning and will post on our website at that time.
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A Calhoun Correctional Institution officer has been terminated after allegedly attempting to introduce contraband into the facility.
According to a Florida Department of Corrections spokesperson, Angela Brown, 43, of Blountstown, reportedly tried to bring in tobacco and rolling papers when she arrived for her shift at CaCI Sunday. The spokesperson said “other items that have not been determined” are also being inspected.
Brown has not yet been charged. The spokesperson advised the decision to file charges would be up to the warden and regional administrators.
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CALHOUN COUNTY
Sept. 19: William Mendez Alvarez, disorderly intoxication
Sept. 21: April Middleton, attempt to manufacture meth, possession of listed chemicals; Luetta Deal, disorderly intoxication; Brandon Dickerson, dealing in stolen property, petit theft; Arthur Goodwin, principle to dealing in stolen property, attempt to manufacture meth, poss. of listed chemicals, petit theft; Mark Watson, domestic battery; Stephen Ragston, state VOP; Sabrina Allen, state VOP; Brandon Dickerson, burglary of structure, petit theft; Blake Godwin, hold for LCSO warrant
Sept. 23: John Layfield, aggravated assault with deadly weapon
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The Blountstown Lady Tigers traveled to Liberty County Thursday and brought home a 21-25, 25-17, 25-20, 25-23 win.
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The Blountstown Tigers and Port St. Joe Sharks met Friday night in Port St. Joe for the district opener for both teams.
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BY KELLI PEACOCK DUNN
News Editor
Three correctional officers have been arrested for allegedly taking money from families and girlfriends of Calhoun Correctional Institution inmates in exchange for protection, special treatment and contraband.
Colonel Sammy John McAlpin, 43, of Sneads, Officer Stephen Pickron, 34, and Officer Nicholas Hansford, 24, both of Blountstown, have all been charged with unlawful compensation for official behavior. McAlpin has also been charged with official misconduct.
According to the arrest affidavit, numerous cash transfers to the CaCI officers were made through Western Union during 2010 and 2011. McAlpin, who served as chief of security at CaCI, allegedly orchestrated the scheme.
The investigation began after the husband of a former correctional officer discovered an estimated 40 letters at his home written to his wife by a CaCI inmate. Not only did the letters suggest a staff-offender relationship, but also referenced illegal activity going on at the institution. One of the letters referred to the inmate paying Col. “Big Daddy” McAlpin $ 500 for protection and the use of a cell phone.
Several thousand dollars were allegedly exchanged during the scheme.
The three officers were booked into the Calhoun County Jail Wednesday and have all been given a conditional release. More details on this case in next week’s print edition.
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by Cole Miller
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Blountstown High School has already started gearing up to celebrate their 2012 homecoming which will take place the first week of October. This year, they have chosen to tie in the homecoming theme with the year of the Olympics!
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Joyce Ann McCardle, 78, of Malone, Florida, passed away Friday, September 21, 2012, in Dothan, Alabama.
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Mrs. Clara Irma Nobles, 90, of Blountstown, FL, passed away early Monday morning, September, 24, 2012, in Blountstown.
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Rae Palmer Summers Shuler, 83, of Bristol, passed away Sunday, September 23, 2012, in her home.
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