Reasons to take care of your mental health

By STAN POPOVICH

Many people underestimate the impact that mental illness can have on an individual or family. It can be difficult to admit that you have a mental health problem in your life. Secondly, it can be just as difficult in getting the people you know to understand your situation without making any kinds of judgments.
As a result, here are six reasons why you should make your mental health an important priority in your life.

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Weekly Roundup: Exit strategy?

By JIM SAUNDERS
News Service of Florida

TALLAHASSEE — Sure, college football is about tradition, rivalries and rooting for the old alma mater.
But it’s also about money. Big money.
And Florida State University argues it’s getting shortchanged.
FSU on Friday filed a lawsuit against the Atlantic Coast Conference, taking aim at a media-rights deal and alleging the conference has “persistently undermined its members’ revenue opportunities.”

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Threatening neighbors

Shell Point man arrested armed with guns after making threats

Shell Point resident
Matthew Williams was arrested on Saturday.

By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor

A 48-year-old Shell Point man was arrested on Saturday, Dec. 16, after he allegedly made numerous threats to neighbors and was behaving erratically.
Deputies were called Saturday morning to Shell Point after neighbors of Matthew Williams heard him making threats and yelling strange things over the past several days.

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Tallahassee man killed in crash on Sand Lake Road

Staff Report

A 57-year-old Tallahassee man was killed in a one-car crash on Monday, Dec. 18, on Sand Lake Road near U.S. Highway 98, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The man’s truck was traveling east on Sand Lake Road approaching a right-hand curve. For unknown reasons, the vehicle failed to navigate the curve and collided with a tree. The driver was pronounced deceased on scene by Wakulla County EMS at 7:26 a.m. FHP was assisted on scene by Wakulla County Sheriff’s Department.
FHP does not release the names of people involved in crashes citing the agency’s interpretation of Marsy’s Law, the constitutional amendment intended to protect victims of crime.