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Jacksonville Today
About 50 people rallied outside the Duval County Courthouse to protest the police beating of Tyre Nichols in Memphis.
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The church is requiring its members to sign a statement agreeing that marriage is between a man and a woman and that a person’s gender is not an individual choice.
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Jacksonville's venerable Museum of Science & History opens its newest exhibit — Planet Pioneers — showing visitors the challenges they would face to survive in a completely foreign environment: a new planet.
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In what appears to be an internal training video obtained by WJCT News, the district’s chief academic officer tells teachers to temporarily pull books from classrooms until they've been reviewed.
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First Baptist Church of Jacksonville says its members must sign a "Statement on Biblical Sexuality" by March or leave the congregation.
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The estimated $53.6 million project from Corner Lot combines multifamily and commercial space.
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BTI Partners has already acquired 4,600 acres in Clay and St. Johns counties, but the company sees even more potential in "the hidden gem" of Jacksonville.
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Sunshine Organics and Compost will train about 15 restaurants on how to separate food for composting. A city truck will then collect restaurant composting bins.
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The city has canceled a deal with the Related Group to build apartments, but the developer could come back with a new plan within months.
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Lack of rain has left Jacksonville and much of Northeast Florida in a moderate drought. We'll get a break late this month, but then below-normal rainfall continues.
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Under the "constitutional carry" legislation, guns would still be prohibited at places like schools and athletic events.
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HistoryMiami museum has remains and funerary artifacts from 132 Tequesta and Calusa tribe individuals. Those tribes are considered extinct, but the Seminole Tribe of Florida has long claimed to be their descendants - now the items are finally in the process of being returned to them under a 1990 federal law.
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County election supervisors say the new restrictions will create significant election reporting delays and a slew of costs for local election offices, and could disenfranchise large numbers of voters.
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The proposal would give nearly every K-12 student access to a stipend for private school or education programs.
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"One Governor should not have the power to dictate the facts of U.S. history," Democratic Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said of GOP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' move to ban the Advanced Placement course.
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Experts say Gov. Ron DeSantis' conclusion could not be drawn from the study he cited, adding that the research focused on health care workers, who are likelier to be exposed to COVID and more likely to be vaccinated. Those findings should not be applied to the general public.
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New conservative board members Christopher Rufo and Eddie Speir got a mixed reaction during their campus visit Wednesday.
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The state’s rejection of the course has drawn national attention, including a rebuke from the Biden administration.
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Eric Silagy, the CEO of Florida Power & Light, unexpectedly announced his retirement. The company said the move was not connected to a burgeoning political spending scandal.
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A controversial measure that critics argue chills Floridians' right to peacefully protest remains blocked as a legal challenge to the new law moves through the courts.
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The declarations have been extended several times since they were first enacted back in 2020. The plan could have implications for several COVID-related policies, such as funds for tests and vaccines.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with writer Helen Lewis about her BBC podcast, The New Gurus, which dives into the world of people who'll tell you what to eat, who to trust, how to get a date and more.
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The horrific video of Memphis police fatally beating Tyre Nichols has dominated the media this weekend. But another video is circulating, showing Nichols happily skateboarding in his teen years.
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The seven states that share the Colorado River have until Tuesday to agree to voluntary water cutbacks, or have federal cuts imposed on them.
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is in South Korea to reassure its ally of the U.S. commitment to defend it, as the seven-decades-old U.S. system of alliances in Asia comes under increasing pressure.
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The U.S. secretary of state calls for calm on a trip to Jerusalem, which is seeing an escalation in Israeli-Palestinian violence.
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NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with CalMatters reporter Nadia Lopez about the challenges California may face as it tries to reach its climate goal of zero-emission vehicles in the state by 2035.
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In the wake of the killing of Tyre Nichols, the Memphis Police Department has disbanded the specialized unit known as "Scorpion." Here's a look at the concept of "hot spot policing" and why it's done.
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For the next two weeks the Super Bowl will unofficially be The Kelce Bowl. This will be the first time the brothers will play on opposite teams.
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Barrett Strong, longtime Motown songwriter, who was responsible for such megahits as "I Heard It Throgh the Grapevine" has died at age 81.
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High school students threaten to sue the governor after the state rejected an African American studies course as teachers cover up their classroom libraries, fearing they’ll run afoul of new state standards on what books students have access to.
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