Sanderson News

Ms. Redmon at her daughter's grave. "When my daughter Deanna was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in 2007, my life became a nightmare.

The Florida Department of Transportation notified county officials last week that after more than a year of waiting, Baker County's variance request to increase permitted traffic volumes on the interstate was approved.

RICK WILSON/The Times-Union Leonard Horne prepares the trees at his farm for the holiday season in 2007.

Two Macclenny men were sentenced the past two weeks to five-year prison terms after entering pleas to having sex with underage girls.

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.

The official opening of the new Bridge of Lions is less than three months away, and 27 people selected at random will be the first to walk across the bridge.

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 ...

This year Baker Correctional Institution between Sanderson and Olustee became the second prison in the state participating in a new initiative designed to reduce the state's 32 percent recidivism rate by better preparing inmates to re-enter the community.

A Nashville, Tennessee man died the morning of August 17 when his westbound pickup truck veered into the opposite lanes of Interstate 10 west of Glen St.

Here are highlights from residents in Arlington and surrounding neighborhoods: Three cheers - The Jaguars Foundation Board awarded $712,750 in grants in its first grant cycle of 2009 to 24 local nonprofits serving economically and socially disadvantaged children and families in Northeast Florida.

The Florida Department of Corrections today will designate Baker Correctional Institution in Sanderson as a re-entry facility for male inmates.

"It's like a breath of fresh air, really," he said last week before resuming an afternoon of caring for his manicured lawn in one of the newest neighborhoods in the city.

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"It's like a breath of fresh air, really," he said last week before resuming an afternoon of caring for his manicured lawn in one of the newest neighborhoods in the city.

A combination of ingredients will come together into this evening to trigger showers & thunderstorms, some very heavy.

A man's body has been found in the wreckage of a Baker County plane crash. The body of the white male was found tangled within the sheet metal of the homemade aircraft.

The Florida Highway Patrol and the Baker County Sheriff's Office have located wreckage from a plane that the aviation authorities told them went off radar near Sanderson.

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.