CAMDEN COUNTY

The future of Spaceport Camden County is in jeopardy after a ruling by the state’s highest court. The Georgia Supreme Court upheld election results which saw voters overwhelmingly rejected the project.

A deputy of the Camden County Sheriff’s Office has been indicted on charges that stem from a traffic stop that occurred almost a year to date, according to a news release Thursday from the District Attorney’s Office in Brunswick.

A newly-unsealed indictment names 76 people as part of a plan to move large amounts of drugs into Southeast Georgia, and much of the conspiracy operated from inside Georgia state prisons, the U.S. Department of Justice for the Southern District of Georgia announced Wednesday.

A woman was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and aggravated battery in the 2019 death of her 5-year-old son, Keith Higgins, the district attorney for the Brunswick Judicial Circuit, announced Thursday.

An arrest has been made about a month and a half after a person was killed in a crash last month involving a semitruck and a car in Kingsland, police said.

The Kingsland Police Department on Monday night announced an arrest in the deadly shooting of a Jacksonville woman, identifying the suspect as her son-in-law.

Watch the Camden County Wildcats take on the Raines Vikings in the third round of the Fortegra Basketball Invitational on the campus of Florida State College at Jacksonville’s South Campus on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022. The Fortegra Basketball Invitational is brought to you by CSI Companies and High School 9:12.

The fifth annual Fortegra High School 9:12 Basketball Invitational Presented by CSI Companies tipped off Thursday at the South Campus of FSCJ.

The I-TEAM is learning more about the use of force in the Camden County jail.

Today is the last day to vote early in the Goergia. Democrat Raphael Warnock is facing challenger Herschel Walker in the runoff for the state’s open Senate seat. There’s already been record-breaking numbers in early voting. More than 1.4 million people have either voted in-person or requested a mail-in ballot.

Early voting is now underway statewide in Georgia ahead of next month’s Senate runoff election between Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker.

Following an investigation that involved the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the Camden County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday announced the arrests of three employees they said were involved in the beating of a 41-year-old inmate inside the county jail.

Attorneys are calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the beating of a 41-year-old man at the Camden County jail.

Reynolds allegedly suffocated her son, Axel, by holding a cleansing wipe over his nose and mouth in May 2018.

A South New Jersey woman, Heather Reynolds, was sentenced to life without parole for killing her 17-month-old son Axel in 2018 by suffocating him.

The attorneys insist the violence wasn't justified. "I don't care what he did," one lawyer said. " ... You don't beat a person like that."

Attorneys for a Georgia jail detainee are demanding the firings and arrests of guards recorded by security cameras repeatedly punching the inmate in his cell.

Attorneys on Wednesday released a third video of the beating of their client at the Camden County Detention Center.

There's more outrage surfacing Tuesday from Georgia public officials over the beating of a 41-year-old man at the Camden County Detention Center.

Lawyers representing a 41-year-old man, who they say is seen on video being beaten by deputies at the Camden County Detention Center, are calling for a criminal investigation, according to a news release from an attorney who represents him.

The second night of the state playoffs proved a forgettable one for area teams.

Officials in Southeast Georgia are monitoring the track of Nicole.

A man wanted in connection with the discovery of a body in Woodbine, Georgia, has been captured in Indiana, News4JAX learned Tuesday.

Twenty people were arrested in Camden County on charges of driving under the influence in this past weekend, according to authorities, who said most were either coming from the Georgia-Florida game in Jacksonville — or from parties where they were watching the game on TV.

An activist group is canvassing for people to go out and vote early in Camden County as Georgia continues to see record-breaking early voter turnout.

It’s a jarring scene and appears to be a real deadly crash, but in reality, it’s a reenactment used to teach students at Camden County High School about the dangers of driving under the influence.

You've likely heard of Brian Kemp, David Perdue, Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker. But there are scores of other names on the ballot for dozens of state and local offices. A look at all the candidates who want your vote on Tuesday.

The Georgia Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday in the fight over plans for a Camden County Spaceport.

The Camden County Health Department began offering the flu vaccine on Monday.

St. Marys, Georgia residents experienced heavy flooding with roads submerged by water and water meeting the front door steps of buildings.

Retired Navy submariners and their family members were making their way to a floating dock to get on a river cruise boat for a tour of the St. Marys River on Tuesday when the gangway collapsed, leaving 17 people injured, according to city officials.

Sixteen people were hurt Tuesday when a dock in St. Marys broke free of its mount, police said.

A woman is in jail after police started investigating a drug overdose death, but also discovered evidence of a suspected drug operation in the presence of a small child, according to the Kingsland Police Department.

Guardian 2022 was supported by the following agencies and organizations, Camden County Emergency Management Agency, Georgia Emergency Management Agency, Camden County Sheriff’s Office, Camden County Fire Rescue, Kingsland Police and Fire Departments, St. Marys Police and Fire Departments, and Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay.

News4JAX asked retired Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office assistant Chief Rick Parker to look at the video.

The Jacoby Development broke ground Friday morning on the Cumberland Inlet project located in St. Marys, Georgia. The Cumberland Inlet will be a mixed-use development to boost tourism in Camden County.

Eight members of Recruit Class 2022-11 are now members of Camden County Fire Rescue.

Newman was given a warning in January, and according to the department’s Facebook page, she was named deputy of the month just two months later.

The family of a Georgia woman killed by gunfire as sheriff's deputies with a drug warrant raided her cousin's home have filed a lawsuit in federal court.

Attorneys for the family of a Georgia woman killed by gunfire last year as sheriff's deputies executed a search warrant at her cousin's home are calling for the Justice Department to investigate, arguing the deadly raid echoes the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky.

A high-speed chase with a baby in the back seat of a sport utility vehicle was captured Sunday on dashboard camera video in Camden County, authorities said.

The high school football season begins on Aug. 19 in Georgia and Aug. 26 in Florida. A glance at schedules for the 2022 high school football season.

The NAACP Camden County Branch is accusing the Camden County Sheriff’s Office and the Kingsland Police Department of racially profiling and unlawfully arresting a young black male during a traffic stop.

Students in Camden and Ware counties headed back to class on Monday.

A Georgia county has filed a lawsuit that seeks to force a company to sell it 4,000 acres on which the county has long planned to build a launch pad for commercial rockets.

The Camden County commissioners are not giving up on the dream of building a spaceport.

A Jacksonville pharmacist and a former pharmacy owner were sentenced after they both pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges related to a federal pill mill investigation, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia said Friday.

The owner of a 4,000-acre industrial site says it has ended a longstanding agreement to sell the property to a Georgia county seeking to build a launch pad for commercial rockets.

Digging deeper into the body camera footage obtained of a high-speed pursuit with a motorcyclist in St. Marys, Georgia, an officer and the motorcyclist’s girlfriend express concern at the scene of the traffic stop before the biker was taken to jail.

News4JAX on Monday obtained the detailed crash report of a six-vehicle crash on I-95 in Camden County that resulted in the deaths of four people.

Investigators said a pursuit through Southeast Georgia that involved multiple law enforcement agencies started when police in St. Marys, Georgia, got a phone call from a man in South Carolina, who said his truck was stolen.

A Virginia man is facing 14 charges following a six-vehicle crash Friday on I-95 in Camden County that resulted in the deaths of four people.

The boy was directed by his uncle, Troy Nokes, 35, to clean drug paraphernalia that contained fentanyl, authorities said.

Officials who have spent a decade and $10.3 million pursuing the spaceport ask the Georgia Court of Appeals to prohibit certification of the vote until their legal challenge gets resolved.

Ominous clues onboard led the sheriff on a search downriver, officials said.

Severe weather in Delaware and New Jersey early Friday prompted tornado warnings.