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The JTA is surveying riders and nonriders about the Clay County Transportation System with an eye to improving the service.
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The Bentex clothing group is recalling about 87,000 children's clothing sets because the ink on the clothing contains levels of lead that exceed federal limits.
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It's the day after Black Friday, and Jacksonville's locally owned business are hoping customers done with hitting the big box retailers and tired of online shopping will buy local on Small Business Saturday.
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The Real Black Friday market will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. the day after Thanksgiving at 822 A Philip Randolph Blvd.
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JTA began offering the free bus rides in 2020 as a way to thank health care employees who had to go to work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Julia “Jenny” Perez of St. Augustine says her life was destroyed when the deputy slammed his cruiser into her motorcycle.
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IKO Industries, maker of roofing, waterproofing and insulation products, would create at least 70 jobs at a plant off U.S. 301.
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Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters isn't waiting for the March election to impose a far-reaching agenda, with proposed changes to the city's patrol zone map that's been in use for two decades, along with a return to a model of community policing.
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Owner Wen Raiti said the rising cost of food, rent and staff made it impossible for the organic restaurant to go on.
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Employees Braxton Massey, Mason Garrick and Ryan Biegel were charged with battery of an inmate. All three were fired.
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A federal appeals court refused an injunction sought by the Brevard County chapter of Moms for Liberty, which sued over restrictions on comments at school board meetings.
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Calling declines in the manatee population since 2017 “dramatic” a coalition of groups have petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to increase protections for the aquatic mammal.
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The Agency for Health Care Administration oversees a Medicaid program that had grown to more than 5.53 million beneficiaries, as well as hospitals, nursing homes and most other health care facilities in Florida.
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Health experts are encouraging people to get the booster to help prevent another holiday surge, but many people have not answered the call.
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Did the Democrats take Black voters for granted? Did returning voters get scared? Did the party sell out? Or all of the above?
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Visit Florida estimates the state attracted 35 million travelers during the third quarter, a 6.9% increase from 2021. The estimate was also 8% above the same period of 2019, before the pandemic.
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Florida is among 32 states that don’t treat 911 dispatchers as first responders. Recent efforts in the state Legislature to change that have not advanced.
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Calling the state’s approach “positively dystopian,” a federal judge on Thursday blocked a law championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis that restricts the way race-related concepts can be taught in universities.
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The Baker Act is a state law that allows courts, law enforcement officers and certain medical workers to order people who could be a harm to themselves or others to be taken to facilities for up to 72 hours.
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The federal rule prohibits improvements to hurricane-damaged homes exceeding 50% of their market value unless the entire structure is updated to meet current building codes.
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The law that divides the Colorado River between seven states is turning 100, and it's being strained beyond what its drafters could have imagined.
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From sci-fi to the streets, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is considering a policy proposal on whether or not the San Francisco Police Department has the authority to use robots as a deadly force.
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The mountain, which is taller than Mount Everest measured from seafloor to summit, erupted Sunday. Its lava appears to be contained, but scientists say the volcano has a history of rapidly changing.
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Stocks fell on Wall Street Monday, giving back some of their huge gains made last week on hopes the worst of the nation's inflation may finally have passed.
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Kraft Heinz says its Velveeta Shells & Cheese cups are "ready in 3 1/2 minutes." The proposed class action lawsuit counters that microwaving is one of several steps and seeks $5 million in damages.
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Now that Thanksgiving is over, when do Americans like to hang up Christmas lights?
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Voters in Georgia are heading to the polls in the runoff election for a U.S. Senate seat. The race is between Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock and Republican Herschel Walker.
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Big cities like Los Angeles and Las Vegas that rely on the Colorado River have money to find water elsewhere. But an Arizona town on the shore of Lake Powell is also struggling with its water supply.
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People in China protest the government's COVID lockdown. Democrats rush to pass bills before Republicans take over the House. Voting starts in Georgia in a runoff for the final unresolved Senate seat.
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The 19-year-old will be sentenced to life without parole for the state charges. He faces an additional 27 charges at the federal level, one of which carries a possible death sentence.
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