- WITN has followed up on the Jerome Willingham residency story. He told them he can register in two places since he was a federal employee. I don’t think he was a federal employee in 2003. Watch the WITN story. Read The Daily News article. – Cesar Laurean’s attorney has filed an appeal on his [...]

- More to come in Thursday’s edition of The Daily News on Jacksonville City Councilman Jerome Willingham. I will link the news story here when it is published online. – The wreck Wednesday on U.S. 17 was bad. I’ve been covering fatal wrecks since 2006. This was one of the worst in terms of apparent sheer [...]

Jacksonville City Councilman Jerome Willingham has a full-time civil service job in D.C., pays rent in Maryland and is registered to vote there. Read the news – part one. Read the news – part two. I promised a big-picture story about Willingham a couple of years ago. Took a while, but the time has arrived. [...]

- James Eric Marslender is serving his first full day of 12 to 15 years in prison. Read the news. Photos from the trial. Click on the thumbnail for a larger image. J.B. Askins, a senior assistant district attorney, reads from a lab report while questioning a witness Thursday: Marslender on the stand Thursday talking [...]

A Richlands man who has been in custody since the shooting death of his wife was charged with her murder early this morning. Read the news. I posted earlier that I beleived the homicide to have occured in the livingroom, based on better info I think the shooting happened in the kitchen of the house [...]

- The trial of James Eric Marslender continues today. The jury should hear from the medical examiner and a lab tech who analized Marslender’s blood for alcohol content. Read the news. Court photos follow. Click on the thumbnails for larger images. Marslender holds his head as prosecutors show the jury a photo of his son’s booster [...]

J.B. Askins promised the jury a shocking piece of evidence found in James Eric Marslender’s vehicle will leave no doubt in their minds as to Marslender’s culpability in his son’s death. Cops began in testimony Tuesday sizing up Marslender for a prison jumpsuit, but Ed Bailey is splitting enough testimony hairs to unravel even the tightest case. Some [...]

The murder trial of James Eric Marslender is underway. Jury selection continues today. Marslender leaving the courthouse: Prosecutors J.B. Askins, right, and Nathan Sweet exit the courthouse Monday afternoon: This is Sweet’s first murder trial, but he has plenty of experience in traffic cases including successfully prosecuting a Marine who ran over a bicyclist last [...]

In an experiment I made 10 “mistakes” in the Monday column I wrote about mistakes. Readers who find an error in a news story act like they would never make such an error. So I called them out with the article and so far only four of the mistakes have been spotted.   I have been inundated with emails [...]

- Chuck Carnes has been promoted to Inspector. He will be running the show while the sheriff takes a little time off. Carnes and Sheriff’s Maj. David West guarding Pres. Bill Clinton in 2008: – I wonder whether Dixie’s tragic death will come up during James Eric Marslender’s murder trial which opens today. Marslender is [...]

- Anthony Negron was set to have his initial appearance in federal court today. I will find out what happened and report it here or in the newspaper. – Look for an update on the Hardison Hills homicide in Thursday’s edition of The Daily News. - Did this guy steal Ed Brown’s All-American campaign shirt? Mr. Bridge [...]

Either Mr. Akers changed his mind or there was a miscommunication in court, either way Dick McNeil has been appointed to represent him. A couple of days ago I said that I would chose McNeil if I were in a similar situation and now he has been appointed to this case . The Akers family should [...]

- Casey Anthony has been acquitted in the death of her daughter. Read the news with an update about her upcoming sentencing for lying to police. I see the problem in this case as being the iffy forensic evidence that was used. I read an interesting article about in the USATODAY while traveling this weekend. [...]