Farm Share, Florida’s largest food bank, will host a food distribution Wednesday in Baker County.

A Lake City man is facing a child sex charge after he walked into the Baker County Sheriff’s Office on Monday and confessed to having sex with a 14-year-old multiple times when he lived in Sanderson last year, deputies said.

The Florida Highway Patrol is currently monitoring a Saturday night wildfire in Baker County.

The Sanderson sisters are officially coming back, and the stars of the original “Hocus Pocus” film are returning for “Hocus Pocus 2.”

BAKER COUNTY, Fla. – At least one person was injured in a crash Sunday afternoon in Baker County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The crash was reported shortly after 4:30 p.m. on County Road 229 at South Prong Cemetery Road, just south of Sanderson. It appeared a vehicle went off the road. It was not immediately known whether any other vehicles were involved. The FHP website shows injuries were reported.

News Service of FloridaSanderson, Fla. - A new medical marijuana indoor cultivation facility is coming to Baker County. Acreage Holdings and The Baker County Chamber of Commerce are holding an official groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday. A spokesperson for Acreage referred to the event as "a budding relationship with the Sanderson community and the state of Florida". The indoor cultivation facility will eventually grow 25,000 plants and, at capacity, employ 80 people. Copyright 2019 by WJXT News4Jax - All rights reserved.

MACCLENNY, Fla. – A man was arrested in connection with a 2016 robbery at the Walgreens in Macclenny, the Baker County Sheriff's Office announced Wednesday. Brad Curtis Stewart, 23, of Sanderson, was being held in the Baker County jail on $250,000 as of Wednesday. On June 11, 2016, according to the Sheriff's Office, two masked people went into the Walgreens on South Sixth Street and demanded money from the store clerk. Over the last month, detectives with the Sheriff's Office began to review the previously closed case and examine the evidence. The Sheriff's Office said the investigation is ongoing and more information will be released as the case develops.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 52-year-old Sanderson man was killed in a single-vehicle crash Thursday evening in Baker County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. State troopers said Johnny Bennett was heading east on Fred Harvey Road at Sam Anger Lane at 5:22 p.m. when his pickup truck went onto the south shoulder of the road, back onto the road, off again and into a ditch. The truck struck the embankment of the ditch and overturned onto its side. Bennett was pronounced dead at the scene. Troopers said blood alcohol content results are pending.