Clay County Sheriff Michelle Cook described a treehouse at the site as a "haven for drug users."

The site at 10080 Beach Blvd. opened Tuesday, but no appointments were available until two days later. Meanwhile, cases of COVID-19 are skyrocketing across Florida.

Brent Brown withheld payroll taxes from employees at four Latitude 360 centers across the country, but he never paid the IRS, according to a newly unsealed indictment.

Duval's election supervisor has mailed out more than 85,000 ballots so far for the City Council at-large group 3 runoff election Feb. 22.

Johnny Nettles, owner of the original Murray Hill ice cream shop, also is licensing in Springfield and Aberdeen, in addition to those open in Fruit Cove and Middleburg.

The new site at the Duval County Senior Center, at 10080 Beach Blvd. ,will be open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week.

A plan to charge some Baymeadows property owners an annual fee to fix up privately owned roads is heading toward a Jacksonville City Council vote. Councilman Danny Becton is pushing the idea.

Some 2,188 cases of COVID-19 have been reported among faculty and students in Duval County Public Schools in just two weeks. Fueled by the omicron variant, that's nearly half the cases reported for the entire 2021-2022 school year.

Jacksonville’s monoclonal antibody treatment clinic at the Joseph Lee Center on the Northside also will be open Monday.

Rising prices and a short supply of homes for sale have left many potential buyers frustrated. Sellers have watched their properties go in a flash, often for more than the listed prices.

A bill that would carry out Gov. Ron DeSantis’ plan to end the Florida Standards Assessments received unanimous approval Tuesday in its first Senate committee.

Gov. Ron DeSantis largely stuck to priorities that he has outlined in recent weeks, such as providing a $1 billion gas tax break to motorists, boosting pay and providing bonuses for teachers, revamping elections laws and being a “law and order state.”

Thousands of kids in Florida are testing positive for the coronavirus. Doctors say hospitals are seeing about as many patients as they did during the delta surge.

Florida Education Association president Andrew Spar says a "massive exodus" of teachers is contributing to the shortage.

Separately, between 800,000 and 1 million tests expired while in storage. Florida is seeking federal permission to use the tests anyway.

A Florida lawmaker would let districts install cameras to record the entire room. Parents, staff, police and child-welfare authorities would have access.

The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity on Tuesday announced that a formula used to determine the maximum number of weeks of benefits will revert from a pandemic-boosted 19 weeks to 12 weeks.

People who are fired from educational institutions and governmental entities for refusing a vaccine will still be eligible for unemployment benefits.

Here are 10 of DeSantis’ priorities — big and small — for the session, which will start Jan. 11:

The League of Women Voters of Florida, the Florida Conference of the NAACP, Disability Rights Florida and a number of other groups filed a series of lawsuits challenging the measure (SB 90), passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature this spring as part of GOP leaders’ nationwide attempts to make it more difficult for people to vote by mail.

Officials say they hope their standards can be a model for the country of social studies teaching that is culturally responsive, as student populations grow increasingly diverse.

NBC Sports officials say their plan of covering the Olympics from its Stamford, Conn., facility is a similar strategy used to cover the delayed 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics last year.

The coffee giant said it was responding to last week's Supreme Court ruling that rejected the Biden administration's plan to require vaccines or COVID testing at companies with more than 100 workers.

"I hope that not having to worry about the costs associated with burying their loved ones will help as they move forward and heal," the Grammy-winning rapper said.

U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is in Kyiv, assuring Ukrainian officials of American support in the face of a threatened Russian invasion.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Republican Sen. Ted Cruz's bid to undo a provision limiting the amount of money candidates can be reimbursed for personal loans to their own campaigns.

New York's Attorney General says the Trump Organization deliberately misled banks, insurers and the IRS for many years. She lays out her evidence in a new court filing.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, from the congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas. He and a few other congregants were held hostage at gunpoint for 11 hours.

Researchers now have the first data looking at how long that protection from a booster shot of the COVID vaccine will last and what the future of the vaccinations might be after the omicron surge.

As President Biden held a rare press conference to mark his first year in office, one of his top priorities — voting rights legislation — appeared destined to fail in a Senate vote.