Luke Payne worked up a sweat in jeans and a T-shirt yesterday afternoon digging his car out of packed-in snow on Amelia Street in Fredericksburg so that he could go to work at 5 p.m. Payne was well aware that he could return from his job only to find that another motorist had claimed the product of his hard labor....

State Police say they executed a search warrant in Hinton after a city resident was charged with an attempted Internet sex crime in Pennsylvania. Joseph J. McComas, 33, of Hinton, was charged with attempted procurement of a child for sexual exploitation through use of the Internet.

The Amelia Island Book Festival is Feb. 12-13 and features authors Pat Conroy, Rick Bragg, Sonny Brewer, Cassandra King, Janis Owens, Jeff Shaara and more.

This Valentine's Day, how about sweets for your sweetie? We're passionate about these one-of-a-kind, locally made treats that you'll love to share with someone.

Amelia Herring scored 20 points as the Harper girls basketball team improved its District 27-2A record to 10-0 Tuesday at San Antonio Cole. Amanda Herring added 10 points while Cortnee White scored nine.

Vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death for teenagers, and federal government studies indicate most of those accidents were preventable.

Tribe leaders may be looking to cut ties with the people who financed their quest for federal recognition, but some of those investors don't want to go quietly.

GIRLS BASKETBALL: A fourth-quarter rally was the difference for Dean Tech in its 41-30 win over Westfield Voke. Carmen Acosta scored 14 and Magda Quinones 11 for the Hawks, who are a win away from qualifying for the tournament for the first time in 10 years ...

Regular-season champion Valley Head placed three players Haven Downer, Emerald Poe and Caitlin Kirby on the Class 1A, All-Area 14 girls high school basketball team.

Fernandina Beach Police have arrested a 22-year-old Fernandina Beach man and charged him with two auto burglaries and the burglary of the Amelia Island Trading Co. that occurred Jan. 15. The auto burglaries occurred in the Ocean Ridge and Natures Gate Subdivisions on Dec. 25-26.

SCHAGHTICOKE Kyle Pallozzi will likely remember Tuesday nights game for a while.

Nassau County's interim fire chief says the county needs more firefighters, but the clerk of court has questioned whether the county can afford it. Body in house a week; man held A Fernandina Beach man was arrested Thursday after police found the body of a woman who may have been dead for a week in their apartment.

(2010-46014) 7 a.m.: What happens when you put copper wire in a microwave oven? Whoever ripped off Edgewater High School on Edgewater Drive may be finding out at this moment, because they took 10 rolls of the stuff and the employees microwave.

Southern West Virginias latest winter nightmare will do its worst today, meteorologists say. They say this weather pattern should persist, and not only because of El Nio. Conditions in Greenland combined with El Nio have added to the entire Mid-Atlantics misery.

HOME AND GARDEN BRIEFS Roses class On Feb. 10 at 10 a.m., Nassau County Master Gardener Paul Gosnell will conduct a Landscape Matters class on roses at the EOC office at the James S. Page Governmental Complex, including a visit to the UF/IFAS Nassau County Demonstration Garden.

A Chicago-based architectural firm - Hammond, Beeby, Rupert, Ainge - was approved by city commissioners Tuesday to conduct a feasibility study on the Centre Street post office building.

IT IS now official: The name Raffles Institution (Junior College) will cease to exist. Singapore's premier school will go back to using its original name for all its six levels of students - Raffles Institution, or RI for short.

Free Will Astrology : GARIES (March 21-April 19) Hate leaves ugly scars, wrote author Mignon McLaughlin, but love leaves beautiful ones.

Science-fiction films have long been characterized by enormous budgets that allow for intricate special effects, exotic space sequences and encounters with computer-generated creatures.

Other people besides American citizens feel a sense of genuine amazement at the achievements, independence and prosperity that our free enterprise economics has produced.

THURSDAY, Feb. 4 The wit and wisdom Of Abraham Lincoln is the topic at 7 p.m. at the Mendham Township Library. The event is free and open to the public. It is funded by the Horizons Speakers Bureau of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Actor Christian Johnson will give his special insights into the life of Lincoln. He has ...

Frankie Lee Crump, 81, of Fernandina Beach, passed away the morning of Jan. 29, 2010 at Baptist Medical Center - Nassau. Dorothy Drury Dorothy Helen Drury, 82, of Callahan, passed away Jan. 25, 2009.

Nassau County's "Big Read" is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to encourage more Americans to read great books. The Nassau County Public Library has selected The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett.

A lingering cold front that arrives late today may hamper blue water fishing this weekend. However, sport-fishing boats that can make the long run will find blackfin tuna and wahoo at the Continental Shelf. A few sailfish are also holding at the big ledge.

NEWTOWN TWP. - At the beginning of the season, the girls on the Council Rock North swim team set out a list of goals they wanted to accomplish.

INGRAM Ingram Tom Moores playoff hopes just got dimmer, as the Warriors lost 64-54 to Boerne at home Tuesday. The Greyhounds, 5-3 in District 30-3A, strengthen their grip on at least one of the three coveted playoff spots that the Warriors were playing for.

GIRLS BASKETBALL Manitou Springs 45, Peyton 39 At Manitou Springs: The Mustangs outscored Peyton 17-5 in the final quarter to erase Peytons six-point halftime lead and seal the win. Ann Wilsons 13 points and Amelia Schofields 10 led...

Beckley city officials have taken the first step in approving property purchases that will allow it to build the Beckley Intermodal Gateway Project. The first reading of an ordinance authorizing the purchases was approved during Tuesday nights Beckley Common Council meeting.

what has happen to the music of fernandina. I remember the fern,bch, recenter main income was booking bands, dances,every weekend or other as away of staying a float for pool needs.In the 60s-70s and early 80s main beach was rocking and shrimp boat on the river front local bands played into the late night.Fernandina was a music town with big name bands playing here time to time.I could sit here ...