Today's News

A 3-year-old Williston boy died Friday night after the utility vehicle in which he was a passenger went into an unused rock pit, fell off a submerged ledge, overturned and he drowned.

Aaron D. Ford, who would have turned 4 years old on Nov. 8, was located in the water about three hours after the 10 p.m. accident by the Levy County Sheriff's Office Dive Team, according to Lt. Scott Finnen.

Funeral services were held at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Knauff Funeral Home in Williston. (A complete obituary is on page 11)

Cedar Key's Joseph Bishop got another second place finish in a Levy County cross country meet - this time at Chiefland, behind Ft. White's Matthew Waddington, whom he'd beaten at Williston two weeks before.

Bishop grouched for a few minutes, complained that Waddington "had a better stride," then allowed as how this was his best race ever.

Alex Travis of Williston, who finished just behind Bishop, said he, too, had run his best race on the shady course.

"It was nice and cool under the trees," he said.

Coach Ajay Ulmer was worried about the effect Mayo receiver Jamal Reid would have on Friday night's football game. In Lafayette's 57-22 win over Chiefland, though, the Hornets didn't even deploy Reid until the end of the first quarter, because they already had Alan Driver, Sergio Perez and Shyler Morgan scarfing up yards on the ground.

BRONSON - The Levy County Sheriff's Office Drug Task Force has arrested six Bronson and Williston residents on 13 felony charges, one misdemeanor arrest and one warrant following a five-month undercover operation in the Bronson and Williston area. The team made undercover drug buys for crack cocaine, powder cocaine and pills that were recovered during an arrest, according to a Sheriff's Office press release.