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The factory's 280 workers at Alliance Florida produce 100 solar panels an hour. The facility is preparing to transition to making an all-black solar panel usable for residential and commercial projects.
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Taylor's family is still waiting for the investigation by the State Attorney's Office to conclude. JSO and two medical examiners have submitted reports in the case, leaving it to the prosecutor to make the final call.
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More homes are available in Northeast Florida; they're staying on the market longer; and more sellers are cutting their prices.
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George Washington Carver raised its grade from an F to a C during the last school year. Here's how.
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Groups including Florida Rising and Jacksonville Community Action Committee are calling for council to declare a state of emergency in response to the city’s housing crisis.
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The store that opened Thursday at the corner of Atlantic Boulevard and Hendricks Avenue was 20 years in the making.
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Many school districts on the First Coast have dropped most of the COVID-19 mitigation restrictions used earlier in the pandemic. Some are no longer notifying parents when COVID cases arise.
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The heated campaign in District 2 reflects the politics involved in nonpartisan school board races this year.
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The state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has surpassed 1 million policies for the first time since 2014. Citizens has been absorbing an influx of policies as private insurers drop customers and push for large rate increases.
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Florida’s new restrictions on discussions of race, diversity and LGBTQ issues in classrooms have some teachers and school districts worried that partisan politics are seeping over into schools. Critics of those new policies say they’re contributing to a massive increase in teacher vacancies.
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During a roughly two-hour hearing, Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker appeared to favor arguments by the plaintiffs’ lawyers that the measure targets speech that DeSantis and state leaders find objectionable.
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Trulieve, the state’s largest medical-marijuana operator, and country-music legends The Bellamy Brothers are backing a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow recreational use of marijuana by people 21 or older.
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The plan would ban doctors from providing treatments such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy to transgender people under age 18.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis said State Attorney Andrew Warren of Hillsborough County has indicated he would not enforce any current or potential state laws regarding abortion or transgender health care.
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A judge ruled that removing the monument would not violate rights of free speech and free expression of religion.
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In 2021, the number of residential residential wirelines dropped by 19.1%, while business wirelines declined 15.4%. That came after years of similar decreases.
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One Jacksonville man was found in the middle of the night with a bloody face, bloody clothes and no pants, in the front yard of a house that wasn’t his.
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The Florida Board of Medicine is slated Friday to consider a proposal by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to bar physicians from providing treatments such as hormone therapy and puberty-blocking medication to youths.
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Projections for Lake Mead water levels and the deadline for water-use cuts are presenting Western states with unprecedented challenges on how to plan for a drier future.
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In 1973, Sacheen Littlefeather spoke on behalf of Marlon Brando at the Oscars about the depiction of Native Americans in Hollywood films.
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The company says diluted cleaning solution used to clean food processing equipment in its factories got into the Capri Sun pouches.
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The wind energy industry faces new challenges over the infrastructure to transport that energy to more populated cities and local landowners who don't want the turbines cluttering up their landscapes.
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Rudy Giuliani is a target of a criminal investigation into election interference in Georgia. Giuliani, a personal lawyer for former President Donald Trump, helped try to reverse 2020 election results.
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The bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan was a turning point for Biden's presidency, marking the end of his popularity and the start of a difficult political year.
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Two names with Republican Party history will be on ballots Tuesday. Wyoming voters appear ready to boot Liz Cheney, while Sarah Palin looks for an Alaska comeback. What does it say about the GOP?
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Glenn Gerstell, former general counsel of the National Security Agency, about how presidents can declassify documents.
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A new FBI report challenges actor Alec Baldwin's claim that he didn't pull the trigger of a gun that fatally shot a crew member while on a film set.
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Florida's annual python challenge awards hunters who capture the invasive snakes from the wild. A decade later, it's done little to reduce the impact of the species on the Everglades ecosystem.
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