Postal carriers here and across the nation will be taking food donations along with any mail you may have this Saturday as part of the annual "Stamp Out Hunger" food drive, the largest single-day drive in the country.

From the USPS:

The Stamp Out Hunger food drive is a nationwide effort that provides food to local food banks and pantries that rely heavily on donations. With more than 50 million Americans living at risk of hunger, food banks across the country continue to experience record demand for emergency food assistance.

Local letter carriers along with nation’s 175,000 letter carriers will collect food donations left at the mailboxes of generous Americans in more than 10,000 communities and deliver them to food banks and other hunger relief organizations, such as pantries, soup kitchens and shelters.

A Macclenny woman was seriously injured early this morning on US 90 near Enterprise East Blvd. when her 2000 GMC Yukon overturned and crashed into a power pole.

Brittany Roton, 21, was taken to Shands Jacksonville for treatment. She was not wearing a seatbelt, according to Trooper Jason Barry's report from the Florida Highway Patrol.

A Sanderson man was sentenced on April 23 to 13 years in prison after he pleaded no contest to molesting a 10-year-old girl.

George Tyre Beasley, 66, gets credit for 182 days in county jail since his arrest in October and will be on probation with sex offender restrictions following release from prison.

It was one of two long-term sentences handed down that day by Judge Mark Moseley of Gainesville.

Court records indicate Mr. Beasley’s victim complained to her mother on October 24 that he had improperly touched her numerous times. In an interview the following day with a sheriff’s investigator, the defendant initially blamed his excessive alcohol use and claimed he didn’t remember the latest incident.

He then described numerous other times that he could have touched the girl, who he described as affectionate. He was arrested following the interview.

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The sharp drop in federal detainees at the county jail in recent months has made some county commissioners more concerned than others, but most of them say there’s little they can do about it anyway.

Between January and March, the average population of inmates housed there dropped by some 65 prisoners.

That means the Baker Correctional Development Corporation (BCDC) — which owes more than $40 million to the bondholders who funded the facility’s construction and startup — is out about half-a-million dollars it otherwise could’ve earned in housing fees.

The share of the jail’s population coming from Baker County grew by some 19 prisoners between January and March, or about 17 percent. That growth costs the Baker County Commission about $145,000.

But what’s been driving the loss in revenue for BCDC is the decline in detainees from Immigration and Customs and Enforcement (ICE), the U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Prisons. During the three-month period, ICE’s average daily population shrunk by 26 percent to 183.16 in March, the Marshal’s by 29 percent to 38.78 and the Bureau of Prisons by 80 percent to 1.45.

BCDC collects nearly $85 per inmate per day from local and federal agencies for housing detainees.