{"id":24458,"date":"2026-06-17T02:25:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/breaking-news-baker-edges-stevens-in-runoff-coastal-courier\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T02:25:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:25:36","slug":"breaking-news-baker-edges-stevens-in-runoff-coastal-courier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/breaking-news-baker-edges-stevens-in-runoff-coastal-courier\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Baker edges Stevens in runoff – Coastal Courier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liberty County\u2019s 1st District seat on the county commission will have a new representative.
Former Walthourville mayor Larry Baker defeated long-time incumbent Marion Stevens in Tuesday night\u2019s Democrat primary runoff, taking nearly 52% of the vote.
Baker outpolled Stevens 574-531 and will face Republican Michael Cook in the November general election.
For more, see Thursday\u2019s Courier or return to coastalcourier.com<\/p>\n

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Liberty County\u2019s 1st District seat on the county commission will have a new representative.Former Walthourville mayor Larry Baker defeated long-time incumbent Marion Stevens in Tuesday night\u2019s Democrat primary runoff, taking nearly 52% of the vote.Baker outpolled Stevens 574-531 and will face Republican Michael Cook in the November general election.For more, see Thursday\u2019s Courier or return […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}