Macclenny News

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

Crash near Deerfield Cirlce November 16. The Florida Highway Patrol is looking into the circumstances surrounding the collision of these two vehicles on Deerfield Circle southeast of Macclenny the afternoon of November 16.

The following was compiled from police reports collected from the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office and Florida Highway Patrol .

The Macclenny Walmart was cleared out yesterday because of a woman with a gun. According to the Baker County Sheriff's Office, it happened Tuesday afternoon when 54-year-old Patricia Anthony Perry went shopping.

The honor guard at NAS Jacksonville. Congressman Ander Crenshaw honored veterans in the 4th Congressional District for the eighth time since 2001 the morning of November 9, bringing the list of those recognized for their service to more than 2000, including more than 800 Vietnam-era veterans.

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.

A woman was arrested Tuesday afternoon in Macclenny after police said she took her gun out and started to unload it at Walmart.

CVS Caremark Corp. acquired property at the intersection of Baymeadows Road and Philips Highway for $2.3 million.

Having substantially fewer federal inmates than expected at the new jail, now in its sixth month of operation, has led Sheriff Joey Dobson to furlough 92 jail employees for five days to save about $102,000. "It's everybody that's paid through the Baker Correctional Development Corporation," said Sheriff Dobson, referring to the nonprofit ...

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

As opponents of privatizing Northeast Florida State Hospital wait to see if the proposal will re-emerge in the 2010 legislative session, a little-notice provision of the federal health-care reform bill moving through Congress could create an incentive for handing the facility over to a private company.

From today until daylight saving time returns March 14, lawn watering is supposed to be cut back to once a week.

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.

MACCLENNY, Fla. - Parents say they are shocked after hearing a middle school nurse was found passed out last week next to several prescription painkillers.

The two newest political groups in Baker County may also be the youngest, dispelling the notion that people under 40 are disinterested in government.

The county's expanded house arrest program, expected to save more than $270,000 for taxpayers annually, will begin operating next month under the management of Baker Community Counseling Services [BCCS], the local nonprofit that also oversees court-mandated drug counseling.

Larry Burkins says he's always loved small towns, and now he's ready to do business in one.

For more than four months now the county has been paying the Baker Correctional Development Corporation $84.72 per day to house each local inmate at the sheriff's complex, even though a contract for such services didn't exist.

Winn-Dixie is revamping its Customer Reward cards to let people shop and get discounts on gas at the same time.

Walter Hunt, 59, of Macclenny was sentenced to three years in state prison by Judge James Nilon this week after pleading guilty to felony drug trafficking and fraudulently obtaining prescription drugs.