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Bill Gunter – a former Florida congressman, state treasurer and insurance commissioner in the 1960s through '80s – died at his Tallahassee home Monday afternoon. He was 89.
Sexual battery. On June 13, 2020, two community activists local to the Tallahassee area, 19-year old Oluwatoyin Salau and 75-year old Victoria Sims, were found murdered in Tallahassee, Florida. The suspect, Aaron Glee Jr., who was 49 at the time of the murders, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and felony murder among other ...
Residence (s) Holiday, Florida, U.S. Education. Florida State University (BA) Stetson University (JD) Military service. Branch/service. United States Air Force. Ronald Ray Richmond (April 1, 1941 – December 22, 2022) [4] was an American politician and lawyer from Florida.
Tallahassee (/ ˌtæləˈhæsi / TAL-ə-HASS-ee) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In 2022, the estimated population was 201,731, [5] making it the eighth-most populous city in ...
Perry, Florida. Nationality. American. On May 7, 2008, 23-year-old Rachel Morningstar Hoffman (December 17, 1984 – May 7, 2008), [1] was murdered by two drug dealers, 23-year-old Deneilo Bradshaw and 25-year-old Andrea Green after being pressured to act as a police informant in a botched drug sting by the Tallahassee Police Department. [2]
Paul D. Bevis (December 15, 1884 – March 23, 1976) was an American politician. He served as a Democratic member of the Florida House of Representatives. [1] [2]
The history of Tallahassee, Florida, much like the history of Leon County, dates back to the settlement of the Americas. Beginning in the 16th century, the region was colonized by Europeans, becoming part of Spanish Florida. In 1819, the Adams–Onís Treaty ceded Spanish Florida, including modern-day Tallahassee, to the United States.
The Veterans Administration purchased the 250-acre parcel of land in August 2012 for $6.8 million. On May 22, 2015, Tallahassee National Cemetery was dedicated. The cemetery is designed to accommodate the burials of over 83,000 veterans from Leon County and the surrounding area. [1]