Glen St. Mary News

The Glen St. Mary mother of three who passed out while driving the evening of December 8 on N. SR 121 just south of CR 23B remained in a coma at Shands Hospital early this week.

A Glen St. Mary woman admonished by a county deputy for leaving her infant child unattended in a shopping cart at CVS was later arrested for shoplifting $424 worth of merchandise from the same store.

One of the members of the "Sledgehammer Gang" that broke through the walls of three area businesses in late 2008 and early this year received a two-year prison sentence after entering pleas in circuit court on December 7. Michael Kronz V, 22, of Jacksonville has already served 295 days since his arrest and will get credit off the prison sentence ...

A 23-year-old woman is in critical condition after being pulled from her SUV that ran off the road and into some Baker County woods -- but doctors said she is not suffering from injury as a result of an accident.

Head-on accidents took the lives of two men on US 90 over the weekend, the first on Saturday just west of Glen St.

Two people were injured Saturday morning in a crash on U.S. 90 in Baker County. Casey A. Prevatt, 27, of Glen St.

Cow Pen Road west of Glen St. Mary has been a thorn in the side of county officials saddled with maintaining the often muddy or dusty thruway and central county residents who travel it.

Police arrested three Baker County men suspected in the attempted rape of a 21-year-old Lake City woman north of Glen St.

A 32-year-old Glen St. Mary man was arrested October 28 on child abuse and related charges following the discovery by day care workers of suspicious bruises on his 3-year-old son's legs and torso.

A sheriff's investigator said this week more information will be collected before a decision is made on criminal charges against a school nurse who allegedly took controlled drugs from the Fraser Hospital emergency room, where she is also employed.

Submitted by Jeremy Cox on Mon, 10/26/2009 - 15:55. Got some additional swine flu vaccine distribution points to report here: Starting last Friday, the Duval County Health Department's Immunization Center, 5220 Pearl St.

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Submitted by Ed Gamble on Fri, 10/09/2009 - 10:36. Since Jacksonville has one of the highest unemployment rates in the state, there is little doubt that most of our readers have layoffs on their minds.

Assistant State Attorney Ralph Yazdiya said this week that if the 17-year-old Baker County High School student accused of sending a Central Florida man sexually explicit photos and video of herself is indeed charged, she will not be prosecuted as an adult.

GLEN ST. MARY, Fla. -- A Baker County teen learned her lesson the hard way about talking to strangers.

An Orlando man is in custody charged with attempting to pick up a 17-year-old female with whom he had a phone chat and text relationship for several weeks, a liaison that allegedly involved the girl texting nude pictures of herself over the Internet.

GLEN ST. MARY, Fla. -- A one-year-old boy was in the hospital Wednesday morning after being run over by an SUV in front of his father's house in Baker County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Two men stopped in a remote part of the Osceola National Forest by a federal officer ended up charged with felony possession and growing marijuana on a small plot in the Pinhook Swamp forest near Highway 2 in northwest Baker County.

Resident Mark Lancaster and Commissioner Mike Griffis shake hands. Witnessing a dozen property owners take the podium to protest increased property taxes and its chambers packed with nearly 100 other like-minded residents, the Baker County Commission voted unanimously the evening of September 3 to leave the tax rate unchanged and balance its $33 ...

An 18-year-old man died early Saturday after his truck veered off the road around midnight in Glen St.