Alert issued for missing 13-year-old Florida girl
Aleysha Hicks, 13, was last seen Jan. 18, 2021. CLAY COUNTY, Fla. โ UPDATE: The missing 13-year-old has been found safe, according to Orange Park police. EARLIER REPORT:The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has issued a missing child alert for 13-year-old Aleysha Hicks, of Clay County. According to authorities, she was last seen Monday in the 900 block of Kingsley Avenue in Orange Park. Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to call Port Orange police or the missing child hotline at 1-888-FL MISSING.
Florida couple ties the knot after weeks in the hospital with COVID-19
ORANGE PARK, Fla. โ Eight weeks after being admitted to the hospital with COVID-19, Henry Bell and his longtime fiancee decided the time was right for a wedding. [TRENDING: Florida in Etaโs cone | The latest on the presidential race | Is there proof of voter fraud?] โHis condition was deadly,โ Brown told The Florida Times-Union. โWe decided to do it now because we feel they (the hospital staff) are like family and wanted to share the life they gave us back.โBell was admitted to the hospital Sept. 13, and immediately put on a ventilator, the Florida Times-Union reported. โIt was touch and go for a while,โ hospital spokeswoman Carrie Turansky told the newspaper.
Florida man, 67, hit girl in face with flagpole in spat over Trump, deputies say
ORANGE PARK, Fla. โ A Florida man was arrested last week after striking a 12-year-old girl in the face with a flagpole during a small rally for President Donald Trump near an intersection, authorities said. Norbert Logsdon Jr., 67, of Orange Park, was charged Sept. 16 with child abuse without great bodily harm and later released on bail, the Florida Times-Union reported. The girl had been riding in a car with her mother, who exchanged taunts with Logsdon as they waited to turn into a nearby restaurant, officials said. A video that the mother posed on Facebook appears to show Logsdon approach the vehicle, stick the flagpole through an open car window and hit the girl. A deputy who later interviewed the girl noted redness on her face.