CLAY COUNTY

The News4JAX I-TEAM is looking into the issue of large homeless camps around Northeast Florida.

The Clay County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Tuesday that it was working with a property owner to dismantle a homeless camp in a wooded area just south of the Duval County line, near the Orange Park Mall.

The Friday edition of the St. Johns County School District’s COVID-19 report showed 515 students were confirmed positive cases of the coronavirus and 161 were quarantined.

A COVID-19 testing and vaccine site in Middleburg will be closed on Monday for Martin Luther King Day, but three other sites in Clay County will still be open.

With parents and school systems all across the country struggling to manage an increase in coronavirus cases, the White House announced it will be distributing 10 million more COVID-19 tests per month to schools nationwide to keep up with the intense demand.

An infant suffered a skull fracture in a car crash Sunday night in the Doctors Inlet area, according to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office.

The body of a man who had been missing for 24 hours was found Monday inside a Chevrolet Corvette that was submerged in a pond in Clay County, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

There was a dramatic increase in the number of reported positive cases of COVID-19 in schools after students around Northeast Florida returned to class last week after winter break.

A woman was injured in a crash Saturday afternoon in Clay County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

A <a href="https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/01/03/teens-facing-charges-in-fatal-shooting-of-17-year-old/" target="_blank">17-year-old was shot and killed</a> over the weekend in a neighborhood just west of the town of Orange Park.

The Clay County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a death in Orange Park near Bonnilyn Drive and Clermont Avenue.

Deputies in Clay County are searching for a man who was last seen on Dec. 30 at a Starbucks in Middleburg.

The Clay County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday night asked for help in locating a 77-year-old woman.

The Christmas season has not been the same for Abby Eberwein and her family since the tragic 2018 death of her 6-month-old daughter, Sophie Grace Leon-Friesenhahn.

Several local groups teamed up Friday for their annual holiday meal delivery.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement will lead the investigation into a death that occurred Wednesday in a dorm at the Clay County Jail, according to a news release from the Clay County Sheriff’s Office.

A member of the News 4 Clay County Facebook group posted Wednesday afternoon that “a bit of a Grinch” paid a visit to the Clay Community Church overnight.

For the past year, 53-year-old Christopher Pledger has been locked up in the Clay County Jail, accused of sexual battery, records show.

According to Feeding Northeast Florida, 257,000 people in its eight-county coverage area are considered ‘food insecure,’ meaning they live in constant uncertainty as to their source of nourishment.

One count of attempted murder has been charged against a Middleburg man accused of shooting another man.

One count of attempted murder has been charged against a Middleburg man accused of shooting another man.

Rachael Pert and Dana Winn, the Middleburg couple who pleaded guilty to charges related to participating in the January riot at the U.S. Capitol, were sentenced to probation and ordered to pay $500 in restitution.

Drew Boree, a 10th-grade student at Clay County, stepped up to help his teacher.

Fire rescue used the “jaws of life” to remove a Clay County deputy from their patrol vehicle early Thursday morning after a crash at Beach Boulevard and St. Johns Bluff Road.

A Clay County woman accusing a sheriff of official oppression won a legal battle on another front. She sued a Wichita Falls topless dance club.

Rachael Pert and Dana Winn, the Middleburg couple who pleaded guilty to charges related to participating in the January riot at the U.S. Capitol, are scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 20 in the United States District Court.

News4JAX is working to learn more about a large shed collapse near a home on Penny Lake Lane in Middleburg.

Thankfully it’s rare, but News4JAX photojournalist Riley Storey and I became part of the story we were covering on Sunday morning.

A teenage girl that was reported missing in Clay County over the weekend was found Sunday morning after she was spotted by a News4JAX reporter.

Quigley House, a domestic violence shelter with locations in Orange Park and Green Cove Spring, is working with survivors to help them overcome trauma with a (seemingly) simple holiday gift.

A Keystone Heights man was killed in a hit-and-run crash Friday morning in Alachua County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

During the Clay County School Board’s meeting Thursday night in Green Cove Springs, board members made final votes in favor of three plans to realign high school boundaries.

Frustration is growing in Middleburg over huge traffic tie-ups that got so bad Tuesday afternoon some News4JAX viewers say they were sitting in backed-up traffic for as long as two hours.

Clay County residents are raising concerns about security in and around the Orange Park Mall.

Two men and a woman were arrested Sunday following a fight that caused the Orange Park Mall to be evacuated.

A Palataka man shot by a Clay County Sheriff’s Office SWAT member Saturday night after holding a woman hostage in a Green Cove Springs gas station has a history of violence, past arrest records show.

The Clay County Sheriff’s Office said the Orange Park Mall was cleared out on Sunday evening after a verbal dispute between three men led to a response from law enforcement officers.

The Green Cove Springs Police Department announced on Sunday it will open an internal investigation into how the department responded to a hostage situation that was occurring within the vicinity of the city’s Christmas parade on Saturday night.

Police officers in Jacksonville and Clay County are separately working on five new, unrelated cases involving violence, guns, at least one homicide, and a hostage situation that ended in an officer-involved shooting.

Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating a deputy-involved shooting that happened Saturday at a Green Cove Springs gas station in Clay County. The incident started with a hostage situation that shut down roads in the area for several hours, investigators said.

Winton Carter was laid to rest at Jacksonville Memory Gardens in Orange Park after passing away Thanksgiving morning.

Last year the Human Collective served 100 children and families in Clay County with Christmas through their Christmas of HOPE programFrom fulfilling wish lists, to delivering Christmas trees and Christmas dinner, the organization brought joy and support to so many in our area. This year they expect the number to more than triple and are looking for the support of the local community by way of donations, businesses for drop-offs, teams of volunteers to help wrap or people wanting to adopt a family. The group will be organizing and collecting between now and December 20. Wrapping and delivering gifts on Dec 21.

The trial for former Clay County Sheriff Darryl Daniels has been delayed until next year.

The number of new homes being built in Lake Asbury will be restricted for the next year.

The Clay County Sheriff’s Office has released an image of a man it said was taking photos up a woman’s dress inside a Target store in Fleming Island. Now deputies are searching for him.

Changing lives with free health care: A clinic in Clay County is serving the underserved.

The Clay County School District confirmed to News4Jax on Tuesday that the teen who was stabbed to death during a brawl over the weekend was not a student in the school district.

Detectives are going door to door in Orange Park trying to determine what exactly happened during an all-out brawl involving young people outside an Orange Park home this weekend.

Is your young student not interesting in reading? Or maybe they don’t have the confidence to read out loud in class? Having your child read to pets might help change that.

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A 13-year-old boy has died and four other teenage boys were injured Saturday during a brawl outside a house in Orange Park.

The Northland is nothing at all like the “Old South.”