Sanderson News

Two teenagers hit by a 92-year-old driver in Baker County are in the hospital in stable condition.

People gathered in Lake Butler to remember a man, and name a road in his honor. CR-231 has been dedicated as "Officer Adam Sanderson Memorial Highway." In front of The Reception and Medical Center the sign was unveiled, followed by a prayer.

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.

Two Lowell natives were killed, and a third was seriously injured, along with a 4-year-old boy, in a horrific single-car crash along a country road in northeastern Florida last week.

About four months ago convicted sex offender Allen Bennett was set to be released from prison.

The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a one-vehicle crash in Baker County that killed two people and caused serious injuries to two others, including a 4-year-old. The crash took place about 6 p.m. Wednesday on County Road 125, just northeast of Macclenny.

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 charred remains of Erosion Stoppers in Sanderson. Fire officials were unable to identify the cause of a blaze that completely destroyed a commercial building off Reid Stafford Road south of Sanderson the morning of June 8. Fire Chief Richard Dolan said the 3052-square-foot home of Erosion Stoppers Inc.

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.

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.

An accident near Sanderson killed a 79-year-old Louisiana woman who was a passenger in a vehicle where the 84-year-old driver was seriously injured, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

June Fairhurst-Fay never got the chance to wish her kid brother a happy birthday.

A man is stabbed to death in front of his Baker County home and deputies have made an arrest.

A Sanderson murder suspect is sitting in the Baker County jail this morning, charged with the Wednesday night killing of his 56-year-old neighbor.

Baker County deputies this morning arrested a convicted felon charged with killing his neighbor during a robbery at the victim's home hours before his birthday, Sheriff Joey Dobson said.

The Baker County Sheriff's Office is searching for a suspect who they say killed a man and stole his truck.

A passenger was thrown from a truck after it left the roadway and crashed into the woods in the area of Osceola National Forest, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Published: Friday, March 6, 2009 at 1:49 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, March 6, 2009 at 1:49 p.m. Two Department of Corrections employees were killed in a traffic crash in Union County Friday morning that ...

He had become adept at steering his motorized wheelchair, but he still felt trapped in his own home.

Six months after being paralyzed on the football field, O'Shay Johnson received the keys to his family's new, wheelchair accessible home.