MIDDLEBURG

One person was rushed to the hospital following an early morning shooting outside a home in Middleburg.

The suspected leader of a child sex trafficking ring that was operating in Clay and Pasco counties is now in jail.

“All the animals thank you,” Safe Animal Shelter said.

The brackets are out and area high school softball teams know what the playoff road will look like.

The News4JAX Super 6 softball rankings will be published each Thursday through the end of the regular season. Results are through April 26 games.

The News4JAX Super 6 flag football rankings will be published each Wednesday through the regular season. Records are through April 18.

Singing From The Heart With Stephen Quinn

A nurse who previously worked at a Florida outpatient surgical center has been convicted of stealing fentanyl and replacing the powerful pain medication with saline.

The News4JAX Super 6 softball rankings will be published each Thursday through the end of the regular season. Results are through April 12 games.

The News4JAX Super 6 flag football rankings will be published each Wednesday through the regular season. Records are through April 11.

The News4JAX Super 6 softball rankings will be published each Thursday through the end of the regular season. Results are through April 5 games.

The News4JAX Super 6 flag football rankings will be published each Wednesday through the regular season. Records are through April 4.

The News4JAX Super 6 softball rankings will be published each Thursday through the end of the regular season. Results are through March 22 games.

The News4JAX Super 6 flag football rankings will be published each Wednesday through the regular season. Records are through March 28.

The News4JAX Super 6 softball rankings will be published each Thursday through the end of the regular season. Results are through March 22 games.

The News4JAX Super 6 flag football rankings will be published each Wednesday through the regular season. Records are through March 21.

Two house fires in a remote, rural area of Clay County are being investigated as arson after county officials say they found evidence of a targeted attack.

Amid a population spike, Clay County leaders have begun discussions on major capital investments for the area, including things like a new jail and improvements to major roads.

The Clay County Sheriff’s Office says it’s investigating two fires at unoccupied homes in the Clay Hill area.

A Middleburg father, who remembers his son as a “good kid,” said his son was the victim in a deadly hit-and-run crash that happened in Clay County in February.

The News4JAX Super 6 flag football rankings will be published each Wednesday through the regular season with the exception of March 15. Records are through March 7.

An ex-employee of a Clay County plant that was shuttered in the 1990s for illegally burning hazardous materials hopes to help prevent the sale of the former Superfund site.

Some residents of the Clay County community are calling for leaders to stop the sale of a former Superfund site.

A Middleburg woman is selling peanuts as a final tribute to her father.

A 14-year-old boy was struck by a pickup truck and seriously injured Thursday morning in the area of a Middleburg school bus stop, the Florida Highway Patrol said.

News4JAX has learned that a man accused of causing a fiery four-car wreck in Clay County that proved deadly has died.

On January 21, 1990, Teryl Orcutt was driving back to the Middleburg home she shared with her mother, when she disappeared without a trace. Clay County Sheriff’s deputies say she had left her boyfriend’s house in Jacksonville.

Businesses around Jacksonville are expecting huge crowds for the Jaguars-Chiefs playoff game Saturday.

A 40-year-old Middleburg man is facing manslaughter charges after a fatal New Year’s Eve crash, according to an arrest report obtained by News4JAX.

A 28-year-old Orange Park man is dead after being hit by a speeding driver on Saturday night in Middleburg, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

The owner of Grumpy’s Restaurant in Middleburg says the last year has been a bit of an emotional roller coaster, but he’s excited to get back to serving the community.

Two brothers are facing narcotics charges following the discovery of an assortment of illegal drugs inside a home in Middleburg, according to a report from the Clay County Sheriff’s Office.

After nearly an entire year of hard work, the Grumpy’s Restaurant located in Middleburg said Tuesday it will soon reopen following a devastating fire last January.

A special delivery arrived Thursday for the babies in the NICU at HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital. Tiny beanies, booties and blankets arrived for the 14th year in a row.

A person was found dead after a shooting in Middlebug.

The Ponte Vedra boys golf team just doesn’t know how to lose.

The high school football playoffs begin on Friday night, with games on Saturday and Monday night, too, due to Hurricane Nicole. A glance at the matchups in the Suburban and Rural divisions.

The second round of the high school volleyball playoffs are set, while one area coaching legend is heading into retirement after an iconic career.

A Jacksonville man unknowingly broke the law by abandoning his dogs at a Middleburg animal shelter.

Florida is rolling out a new program to help battle opioid addiction and overdoses titled “CORE,” which stands for “Coordinated Opioid Recovery.”

The News4JAX Super 6 high school volleyball rankings will be published each Wednesday during the regular season. Records are through Oct. 11 games.

The News4Jax Super 6 high school volleyball rankings will be published each Wednesday during the regular season. Records are through Oct. 5 games.

The News4Jax Super 6 high school volleyball rankings will be published each Wednesday during the regular season.

The Clay County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) is looking for answers after a woman was found dead Saturday evening inside a car parked at a Middleburg park.

The News4Jax Super 6 high school volleyball rankings will be published each Wednesday during the regular season.

The National Weather Service on Friday issued a tornado warning for Bradford, Clay and Duval counties until 9:45 p.m.

Clay County is working to eliminate major damage issues during catastrophic storms like what the county dealt with in 2017 following Hurricane Irma.

For 10 years, a Clay County man took so many prescription pills that he almost died the day his wife found him unconscious on their living room floor. Today, Matthan Poole is a local pastor, and he and his wife, Sara, are using his near-death experience to bring others hope.

Free Sexually Transmitted Disease and Sexually Transmitted Infection testing will be offered to Clay County and surrounding county residents on Wednesday at the new Community Paramedicine Office.

Low-income individuals and families will be able to get their hands on a hurricane kit this weekend in Clay County.

A new charge of vehicular homicide was filed Tuesday against a 40-year-old man in connection with an April crash in Clay County that left a 23-year-old man dead, according to court records.

Catholic Charities Jacksonville is hosting a free food giveaway this Saturday, August 20.

After a man died last week following an April crash in Clay County, the driver accused of causing the wreck was back in court on Monday.

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.

A 23-year-old Clay County man died nearly four months after 93% of his body was burned in a fiery four-car crash in Orange Park, according to his family.

News4JAX has been following a Middleburg woman whose family is in Kentucky.

″While it all seems so devastating, what I want everyone to know is there’s a community in Breathitt County, Kentucky. We have a saying up there. You’re ‘Kentucky proud and you’re Breathitt strong’. I grew up there, and lived there for 18 years. I still have that feeling.”

A local woman’s family has lost just about everything in the flooding in Kentucky, and she’s gathering supplies to help them out.

A judge on Monday revoked the bond for a 40-year-old man charged in a fiery crash in Clay County that severely injured a 23-year-old man in April.

A nurse working at a Florida hospital has pleaded guilty to stealing fentanyl and replacing the powerful pain medication with saline.

A 66-year-old Middleburg man died Sunday morning in a two-vehicle crash in Clay County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

A video clip of a Clay County father speaking at a school board meeting has gone viral and put the topic of what’s in the county’s school libraries in the national spotlight.

Mike Mitchell, rated a three-star prospect by On3 and 247 Sports, committed to Utah to give the Broncos their first major college football recruit in what feels like a lifetime.

A gallon of regular gas will cost $3.76 at the 76 gas station in Middleburg as part of its grand opening promotion for Friday only.

More than two-and-a-half years after a small plane went down in Clay County, killing a 72-year-old pilot, questions remain as to what caused it to strike powerlines.

One hit and a dominant pitching performance lifted Middleburg to the most unlikely softball championship of all.

The Middleburg softball team was no-hit in its state semifinal debut on Thursday. That wasn’t a problem with Mallory Forrester in the pitcher’s circle.

Thursday is a big day for Clay County high school softball as both Clay High and Middleburg High School will play in separate State Final Four games.

The high school softball state semifinals begin Tuesday in Clermont. A glance at Class 2A state semifinalist University Christian.

It was a very good night for area high school softball teams. Baldwin and Middleburg are bound for the state semifinals for the first time ever.

Eight area softball teams, half of those from Clay County, are heading on to the third round of the state playoffs.

A 37-year-old Middleburg woman lucked out when she bought a $50 scratch-off lottery ticket in Jacksonville and won a $1 million prize.

A Middleburg man died and a Keystone Heights woman was hospitalized with seriously injured after a crash Tuesday afternoon in Clay County, according to a Florida Highway Patrol news release sent Wednesday.

A death row inmate who killed a Clay County woman and raped her daughter has died in prison.

An investigation into child pornography that began back in the fall of 2020 has now led to an arrest, according to an arrest warrant.

The Jaguars and some of their players spend time helping mentor and develop future football players.

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

The News4JAX Super 6 softball rankings will be published each Monday through the end of the regular season. Results are through April 24 games.

The News4JAX Super 6 softball rankings will be published each Monday through the end of the regular season. Results are through April 17 games.

A life-altering ATV crash left Halynn Timms severely injured. After months of surgeries and recovery, the Middleburg High School FFA student only had one goal: Be well enough to stand with her pig at the auction at the Clay County Fair.

Clay County announced on Tuesday it is adding an additional recycling drop-off site in Middleburg.

The News4JAX Super 6 softball rankings will be published each Monday through the end of the regular season. Results are through April 3 games.

A ruptured gas line has closed all northbound and southbound lanes on Blanding Boulevard near the Middleburg Publix, according to the Clay County Sheriff's Office.

The News4JAX Super 6 softball rankings will be published each Monday through the end of the regular season. Results are through March 27 games.

Mostly backyard flooding, as it typically does, the water levels will flush lower quickly over the next few days.

Grumpy’s Restuarant CEO Daniel DeLeon says the plan is to rebuild and open the doors again to customers by this May. That is not the only site the company has in the works. It is also in the process of opening two new spots this summer.

Allegations of sexual misconduct by a teacher have led to a Middleburg teacher’s arrest.

Flanked by officers from multiple agencies, the body of a law enforcement officer who died in the line of duty was escorted Thursday to a cemetery in the Orange Park area.

A Jacksonville man with a documented history of arrests on charges that include theft, organized fraud and dealing in stolen property is once again behind bars facing several criminal charges involving thefts of expensive merchandise.

A family is devastated after learning their loved one was killed in a hit-and-run crash last weekend while riding his bicycle in Clay County.

Investigators with Florida Highway Patrol are searching for the driver and vehicle believed to have run over a bicyclist in Clay County and then fled the scene.

Two people died in two, unrelated car and bicycle crashes in Clay County on Saturday night, according to Florida Highway Patrol.

Investigators with Florida Highway Patrol are searching for the driver and vehicle believed to have run over a bicyclist in Clay County and then fled the scene.

Popular Middleburg restaurant Grumpy’s is on the road back to re-opening thanks to some helping hands -- and generous hearts.

The owners are anxious to rebuild and reopen the location of the chain, which is a fast-growing local eatery.

Clay County Fire Rescue personnel were dispatched Wednesday night to a fire at the popular Grumpy’s Restaurant in Middleburg.

A man has died after he was involved in a confrontation with “involved parties” on Friday in Middleburg, according to a release from the Clay County Sheriff’s Office.

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.

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

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