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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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Nichols, 29, was pulled over on Jan. 7 for what police said was reckless driving. After trying to flee on foot, Nichols was severely beaten by police. He died in a hospital days later.
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The 18-year-old victim was attacked on a bus in Bloomington, Ind., in early January. The victim is out of the hospital but still recovering, while an insanity defense has been filed by the assailant.
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Lisa Loring will be remembered as a Hollywood icon for playing the gloomy Wednesday Addams at age 6. She went on to fill roles on As the World Turns and the Girl from U.N.C.L.E..
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New Jersey officials are condemning the attempted arson attack as well as an unrelated "possible bias-motivated incident" at a church over the weekend. The state is no stranger to antisemitic threats.
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NPR's A Martinez talks to pastor James Kirkwood, chairman of the Memphis Civilian Law Enforcement Review Board, about police practices and the killing of Tyre Nichols.
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NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Puesh Kumar, director of the Energy Department's Office of Cybersecurity, Energy, Security and Emergency Response, about risks to the U.S. power grid.
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Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia leave seniors at risk for financial mismanagement and exploitation. With few regulatory safeguards, it falls on families to monitor the risk and intervene.
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At a Lunar New Year celebration, residents of Alhambra, Calif., honored Brandon Tsay, the man who disarmed the Monterey Park gunman as he tried to attack a second location.
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Residents in Memphis, who watched the video of the violent police beating of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols, talk of their own brutal experiences. Nichols died three days after the attack.
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Memphis leaders say police reform is part of the solution to police violence, U.S. Secretary of State Blinken is in Jerusalem amid mounting violence, House Republicans begin probes into Democrats.
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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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