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Crash on I-10 West of exit 199. AVOID it. Looks pretty bad from the number of response vehicles.

- Congratulations to Autumn Smith, Medart Elementary, our Envision Credit Union Summer School Educator of the Month.

: Beryl has rapidly intensified to a Category 4 Hurricane Sunday. This is the strongest Atlantic hurricane on record in June and the earliest Category 4 hurricane. In under 24 hours, it has gone from a 65 mph tropical storm to a 130 mph Category 4 hurricane. will bring life-threatening wind and surge to the Windward Islands on Monday. It should stay south of Florida.

Tropical Depression #2 has formed. Expected to be a Hurricane soon.

The Florida State Seminoles Baseball team will be arriving back in Tallahassee at 2:30pm and will then be bussed to Dick Howser Stadium. There should be a nice group at the stadium to welcome them back!

Get half-price certificates to some of your favorite Tallahassee businesses at Tally-Deals.com!

The greatest baseball player of all time has passed away. Rest in peace Willie Mays.

Want to win a $50 gift card for Pepper's Mexican Grill? Call our SoundOff line at 850-583-8589 and leave a message about ANYTHING. All callers are entered into a weekly drawing.

A Sun Stop convenience store and a Starbucks might be coming to the intersection of Thomasville Road and Ox Bottom!

Peep those rumble packs. Geez we didn’t realize how good we had it.

1. MONDAY, MAY 27TH: East of Monroe. North of Orange. (This clue effectively eliminated a huge chunk of Tallahassee for this scavenger hunt! Definitely going to be on the east side of town.)

2. TUESDAY, MAY 28TH: The nearest public high school is three miles away. (Lincoln High School located three miles to the south.)

3. WEDNESDAY, MAY 29TH: The closest fire station is nearly 2.5 miles away. (This refers to Tallahassee Fire Station #7, located on Shamrock Street South in Killearn Estates, just over two miles to the north.)

4. THURSDAY, MAY 30TH: Just to the east of here you’ll find the namesake of one of Tallahassee’s most notable insurance men. (This clue introduces us to Payne Midyette, Sr., a prominent Tallahassee businessman, City Commissioner, State Representative, and cattle rancher. Midyette Plantation, located just east of Miccosukee Greenway, is a residential development named after him. Midyette started one of the most long-standing and reputable insurance companies in Tallahassee history: The Midyette-Moor Insurance Agency, founded in 1922. In 1935 Midyette and his partner Frank Moor bought the Exchange Bank building, which still stands at the corner of Monroe St. & College Ave. At six stories high, this was Tallahassee’s tallest building when it opened in 1928. Midyette Road in Tallahassee was also named for him and was originally a short dirt road running south off Old St. Augustine Rd. and dead-ending at Midyette’s cattle ranch east of town. In the 1930s he granted the county an easement through his property so the country could extend and pave the road all the way to Tram Rd., three miles south of Old St. Augustine Rd. Now Midyette Rd. is only a half-mile long, as it was replaced by part of the construction of Capital Circle in 1962-1963. It is also interesting to note that Payne Midyette, Sr. was one of two landholders who sold their property to financier Ed Ball, founder the St. Joe Company. The land Midyette sold to Ball became part of what is now Southwood. It was also Midyette who proposed beautifying Lake Ella with the addition of ducks and geese.)

5. FRIDAY, MAY 31ST: One of the first physicians at TMH has something named after him 1.5 miles Northwest of here. (This is referring to A. J. Henry Park. It was named after Dr. Joe Henry, one of the first physicians, and one of the most respected, in TMH history since opening their doors in 1949. Dr. Henry owned a large tract of land that would later become a huge part of Killearn Estates. He donated 72 acres of his land to the City of Tallahassee to develop the park in 1985.)

6. SATURDAY, JUNE 1ST: Less than two miles to the west is a well-known Tallahassee establishment that has been in the same location since 1996. It was located closer to the center of town from 1953-1996. (Holy Comforter Episcopal School on Fleischmann Road is just west of the Miccosukee Greenway. They have been at that location since 1996. Before that, beginning in 1953, Holy Comforter was located between TMH and Goodwood on Miccosukee Road. Classes were added through the years, and the school now offers education from Pre-K through eighth grade on the campus on Fleischmann Road. Also of interest is that the original land for Holy Comforter was donated by Margaret Hood, who owned the Goodwood property in 1953.)

7. SUNDAY, JUNE 2ND: The famous French man’s name is everywhere. But in this case, it’s right across the road. (Marquis de Lafayette’s name seems to come up in every scavenger hunt. That’s because he is such an important figure in Tallahassee’s rich history. For his assistance in the American Revolutionary War, the Federal Government gifted Lafayette with a 6-quare-mile township that encompassed a huge part of what is now Tallahassee. Many things here are named after Lafayette. But in this case, the clue was referring to “Lafayette Oaks” neighborhood, right across the road from the greenway.)

8. MONDAY, JUNE 3RD: The man that started the plantation that used to be on this land died in 1952. (The Miccosukee Greenway now sits on the land that was once part of the legendary Welaunee Plantation, owned by Udo M. Fleischmann. Welaunee was created from land that once belonged to several cotton plantations and smaller farms. In 1952, Udo Fleischmann died leaving the property to his wife. Under Mrs. Fleischman, the property was used for Hereford cattle. In 1962, Mrs. Fleischmann died and left the land to her nephew, John W. Mettler, Jr. of New Brunswick, New Jersey. Mettler was an experienced cattleman and increased the size of stock cattle to 500 head. Also interesting to note is that Udo Fleischmann’s sister Louise married Alfred B. Maclay.)

9. TUESDAY, JUNE 4TH: The family of a famous baker used to own this land. (Few Tallahasseeans know that the Fleischmann name you see on the label of cinnamon rolls, bread, and RapidRise Instant Yeast is from the same Fleischmann family that owned Welaunee Plantation. Udo Fleischmann’s uncle Charles Louis Fleischmann founded Fleischmann Yeast Company in Cincinnati in 1868. They would eventually become the world’s leading yeast producer and the second largest producer of vinegar. Also interesting to note is that Charles Fleischmann’s son Julius once served as the mayor of Cincinnati.)

10. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5TH: Searching in the heat is for the BIRDS. But if you work up an appetite, there’s a place just east of here that serves Crabby Patties. (This was a two-part clue: the boxing gloves were hidden near a birdhouse at Miccosukee Greenway. And just about two miles east of the location is Backwoods Crossing, where they serve, among other things, Crabby Patties.)

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! Congratulations Josh Clayton! Josh found Rocky Hanna’s boxing gloves at the Miccosukee Greenway! Josh wins $1,000 for solving our latest scavenger hunt! Thanks to our sponsor Budget Blinds! And get ready for the next Great Tallahassee Scavenger Hunt coming soon!

Believe it or not, this is a sneak preview of tomorrow’s scavenger hunt clue.

I-10 Westbound in Gadsden County is closed due to a major crash. Get ready to detour around mile marker 185.

“In all cases, somebody knows something,” Tallahassee Police Chief Lawrence Revell said in a Monday morning interview with the Tallahassee Democrat. “Somebody has that critical piece of information that is going to break this case open and bring Lori home.”

The FBI’s Jacksonville Field Office is offering a $15,000 reward for any information that could lead to Lori’s recovery by calling the field office at (904) 248-7000 or TPD at (850) 891-4200.

Tomorrow's scavenger hunt clue is gonna be a BIG one. You're all gonna be shook, I tell ya.

Walmart on Mahan is temporarily closed while Tallahassee Police respond to an incident.

Someone is putting mannequins on the banks of the St. Marks River 😂

The next Scavenger Hunt clue is coming up at 9am! Yep, even on Sunday!