Macclenny News

The Macclenny resident recently caught this 12-pound, 6-ounce black bass on a black trick worm at Lowrey Lake.

The roar of this escaping natural gas was deafening. Natural gas under high pressure shot into the air for an hour the morning of June 25 after a sensor valve was tripped on an above-ground station of the main ...

A Macclenny couple is now facing additional felony counts for growing marijuana in a wooded area behind their house.

A bloodhound that is part of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office K-9 squad is missing.

A chronic offender whose prosecution was delayed several years because he was confined to a state mental hospital was sent to prison for ten years on Monday on theft and drug charges spanning the years 2003 ...

In the past week three wrongful death lawsuits have been filed in federal court involving salmonella poisoning in Putnam County, an inmate drug overdose in Macclenny and a fatal car crash in Jacksonville.

Taking care of two newborns, the constant feedings and changings and sleepless nights are even harder hundreds of miles from home.

Lanes shift unexpectedly or an old exit is closed while a new exit ramp is open.

That's what the Baker County Commission said the afternoon of June 16 to raising service fees in key areas like fire protection, solid waste and emergency services .

A bullet grazed the head of a Macclenny repairman while he worked on an air conditioning unit at the Auburn Glen Apartments on the Southside of Jacksonville on June 9. Danny Powless was leaning over to repair ...

By Wendell Snowden Several months ago, a few Wellborn Community Association members decided to make our Blueberry Festival Country Store look more like a country store.

When Jacksonville police responded to a shooting at a Southside apartment complex Monday morning, they found the victim bleeding from the head and a bullet lodged in a nearby wall.

Life-long Baker County resident Kenneth "Eddie" Yarbrough was sentenced to eight years in prison May 30 in exchange for a guilty plea to attempted sexual battery on a child under 12 in September 2007.

Roger Wilbur didn't know anything about the town of Macclenny. But over the last three weeks the people there have changed his life.

Adam Stringer has a dilemma. He owns a small convenience store in the crossroads settlement of Olustee in west Baker County.

A number of agencies in Baker County may share the $4.3 million allocated locally by the Florida legislature in the coming year for things like road repaving, water conservation, recreation, disability ...

Jacksonville News Get breaking news and daily headlines. Browse all e-mail newsletters Among the $100 million in the 2009 state budget TaxWatch calles turkeys are several projects in Northeast Florida: BAKER ...

This year Baker County's third graders continued outperforming their peers statewide on the reading and math sections of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test , according to scores recently released by the ...

A fire that destroyed a mobile home Wednesday night in Baker County is now believed to be the work of an arsonist.

In the little town of Macclenny, Florida, about 30 miles west of Jacksonville, is a quint family run business called Taylor's Party and Gifts.