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Fidelity National Information Services seeks the addition next to its new headquarters building along Riverside Avenue.
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Moez Limayem, the new president of the University of North Florida, says race-related topics can be taught objectively. -
A University of North Florida poll found that 49% of voters strongly oppose spending $375 million to install a roof on TIAA Bank Field. Eighty percent oppose splitting the cost of a new stadium with the Jaguars.
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A poll from the University of North Florida also found people split over a proposed tax for Duval schools.
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The ban includes cigars and vaping. Violators can be fined $75.
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The Jacksonville Transportation Authority said it will retire diesel buses that have "reached or exceeded their useful life" and begin replacing them in late 2024 with the CNG-powered buses.
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Voters in Jacksonville Beach will not be voting at the city's next election to determine the fate of the Volunteer Life Saving Corps, which has patrolled the beach there since 1912.
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An FBI-led investigation yielded three arrests and led to seven sex trafficking victims in North Florida. They included a girl who was found in Jacksonville after being brought here from out of state for sex.
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Insa Jacksonville wants to lease the building in Town Center for its flagship Florida location.
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The organization said the philanthropist’s gift will be used for financial literacy and work readiness.
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Fried holds a 47% to 43% lead over Crist among likely voters in the Democratic primary, according to the poll released Tuesday. But both would lose to Gov. Ron DeSantis, the poll shows.
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Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker called part of the law a “naked viewpoint-based regulation on speech."
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The letter, sent to companies including United Healthcare, Florida Hospital Association and Florida Blue, says companies need to make a choice between a responsibility to patients and politicians who have "put reproductive healthcare at risk."
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State Board of Education member Ryan Petty said he has “grave concerns” about some LGBTQ support guides provided to students, teachers and school staff members.
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Democratic attorneys general from 16 states and the District of Columbia urged a federal appeals court Tuesday to reject restrictions that Florida Republicans placed last year on election drop boxes.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to recruit retired law enforcement officers, emergency medical technicians, paramedics and firefighters to become teachers.
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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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Three men, including a Mafia hitman, have been charged in the 2018 killing of notorious Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger in a West Virginia prison, the Justice Department said.
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The U.S. is facing a shortage of the monkeypox vaccine as the outbreak grows rapidly. The White House is pursuing a controversial strategy where each person only gets a fraction of the full dose.
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Former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization Allen Weisselberg has plead guilty for his role in a tax fraud scheme that lasted 15 years.
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A local journalist in small town New York and an aspiring writer in Eastern Ukraine discovered they had a lot more to learn from each other than either expected.
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Feeling vindicated by recent evidence of an Iranian plot to kill former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton, opponents to reviving the nuclear deal with Iran are pressing their case.
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Environmental damage is a threat to the global economy but it's hardly counted in economic figures like the GDP. The Biden administration is unveiling an effort to give a more holistic accounting.
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An appeals court said two climate change lawsuits against the oil industry should be heard in state court. Oil companies have been fighting such cases on jurisdictional grounds for years and losing.
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Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson will sit out 11 games and pay a $5 million fine. Watson agreed to the increased punishment after dozens of sexual misconduct allegations.
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The books under review were previously challenged and placed back on shelves, but now the Keller Independent School District wants them to undergo another review with new criteria.
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It's been one year since a flood tore through Waverly, Tenn., and killed 20 people. There's been lots of effort to rebuild but it's still unclear if the town will ever be the same.
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