Glen St. Mary News

The Putnam County Sheriffa TMs Office wants to stress that the search was not prompted by tips.

Cumming's grandmother. For their effort the police found only animal remains after digging up the property and providing searches of the water.

GLEN ST. MARY, Fla. -- Search teams have searched the property belonging to relatives of a missing 5-year-old girl in north Florida.

Two of four occupants of a car that left CR 125 north of Glen St. Mary the early evening of June 17 died several hours after they were airlifted to Shands Jacksonville.

Investigators say alcohol was a factor in the crash that killed two people and seriously injured two others, including a 4-year-old. The Florida Highway Patrol says 57-year-old Paul Durant, from Pensacola, was driving a car with three other people inside on County Road 125 north of Glen St.

Debbie Pelham of Glen St. Mary likes this spot at the Spirit of Suwannee campground as the best place to stand in Northeast Florida.

The sheriff's department believes it has solved grand theft cases involving new appliances and other items from houses under construction in Macclenny dating back to April of 2008.

All is quiet in the Rolling Meadows neighborhood. Over the last year, the brand new subdivision has been the target of thieves a number of times.

Greater St. Mary's Missionary Baptist Church will celebrate its 135th anniversary at 4 p.m. Sunday and June 28.

The Baker County Commission awarded a contract valued at roughly $316,000 to Jacksonville-based APAC June 2 for the asphalt paving of nine road segments spread throughout the county, about 3.8 miles in all.

The Town of Glen St. Mary settled a lawsuit by a disgruntled commercial developer out of court last month, agreeing to a $20,000 payment that essentially reimburses the plaintiff for utility connection fees paid back in 2006.

It's rare for law enforcement to be present during public meetings concerning land development regulations, but it became necessary June 1 after local landowner James Slattery allegedly threatened the life of county Planning Director Ed Preston five days before.

After jurors convicted a Baker County woman two weeks ago of murdering her husband, witnesses noticed one leaving the courtroom hand-in-hand with the defendant's son.

Two Sanderson men were taken to Shands Jacksonville for treatment of gunshot wounds during the early hours of May 23 following a shooting at a location north of there known as The Juke.

The case that captured so many people's attention on the First Coast this year is that of 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings.

Baker County's cut of the federal stimulus package grew considerably larger this month after the Florida Department of Law Enforcement notified local officials they should expect more than $400,000 from law enforcement appropriations in the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009.

A passenger in the 2000 Buick pictured at left became Baker County's sixth traffic fatality of 2009 when the vehicle was struck broadside in the eastbound lane of US 90 at the interchange with Interstate 10 west of Sanderson the afternoon of April 29.

In the morning when Jason Lanier reports to work at the Glen Cash Store, his faithful sidekick Dixie is right there with him.

A circuit judge sentenced a Glen St. Mary man on April 6 to a six-year prison term for DUI manslaughter in the death of his 9-year-old nephew in an ATV accident in June of last year.

An uneasy truce between the parents of Haleigh Cummings following her disappearance from a Putnam County home Feb.