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After the USO shut down its soldier and sailor center at Jacksonville International Airport, the aviation authority has opened a renovated military lounge.
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Jacksonville-based Changing Homelessness has received a $2.5 million grant — the largest in the agency's nearly 50-year history of serving struggling families in Duval and Nassau counties — from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Day 1 Families Fund.
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Mayor Lenny Curry's office window appeared to have a bullet hole in it as a banner with a message for him circled Downtown Tuesday morning.
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With Florida’s property-insurance system in turmoil, state lawmakers could be poised to take major steps to try to stabilize the market during a special legislative session next week.
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Mayor Lenny Curry and Sheriff T.K. Waters join forces to decry recent deadly violence on Jacksonville streets
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Last school year marked a more than 10-year low for Florida’s kindergarten and seventh-grade students completing all doses of required immunizations, according to a recent report from the state Department of Health.
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Job News USA is hosting a hiring event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 7.
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The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is investigating a drive-by shooting that killed a 13-year-old boy and injured others in Northwest Jacksonville.
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Tropical Storms Ian and Nicole uncovered an 1800s shipwreck on the beach where it was first discovered in 1987.
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The Florida lawmaker who sponsored the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law has been indicted on charges of defrauding a federal coronavirus loan program for small businesses.
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A Florida Department of Education workgroup is crafting a training that all school-library workers must use in selecting books and other materials. The group was formed to carry out part of a new law passed this year.
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The Florida Supreme Court is wrestling in Tallahassee over questions about whether Marsy's Law and protecting the rights of crime victims can be used to keep anonymous the identities of police officers who kill a suspect in the line of duty.
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An unlicensed woman fined for offering dietary advice contends that the state violated her rights but a federal district court and appeals court disagreed. The Supreme Court rejected the case.
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Hospitals in St. Petersburg and other parts of the U.S. are seeing more young people come in with suicidal thoughts. If you or someone you know needs mental health support, you can call the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
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The Thomases live on 72nd Drive East in northern Sarasota, an area that was spared the worst of Hurricane Ian in late September. But their tree debris hung around for more than two months.
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Florida high court to consider: Are police officers victims when they shoot someone in line of duty?Police and their supporters say officers involved in fatal shootings may face imminent threat of harm. The court will decide whether their identities should be protected under the state’s Marsy’s Law.
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Governor Ron DeSantis’ administration says he doesn’t make “U-Turns." The administration released a statement Friday after the Financial Times reported a plan is in the works to reverse a law that eliminated Disney’s special tax district status.
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Critics say the proposal from Gov. Ron DeSantis could be used to censor certain viewpoints.
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Florida has an exploding population on the coast, while climate change raises the risk of hurricanes with deadly coastal flooding. That combination may one day force the conversation on retreating from these dangerous places, but for now, the focus remains on how we will rebuild.
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The 2021 charges against Anderson Lee Aldrich were dropped despite authorities finding a "tub" full of bomb-making chemicals and later receiving warnings from other relatives.
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During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday, the Rev. Rob Schenck said he knew the outcome of a pivotal religious freedom decision weeks before the Supreme Court released it in 2014.
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A new report finds that truck manufacturers and an industry trade group privately lobbied to weaken U.S. climate policies while publicly promoting zero-emissions trucks.
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The first part of the long-awaited series shows the couple navigating their early relationship. Critic Eric Deggans says it avoids offending specific royals, but offers a critique of British society.
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The U.S. wants to mine more domestic lithium for electric vehicle batteries. It would require demolishing houses, digging up farms and disrupting streams. Some residents worry about the impact.
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Boeing says the last 747 it will ever build left its assembly line this week. It's the end of an aviation era that began with Pan Am's first commercial flight of the jumbo jet in 1970.
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The former U.S. Marine has been held in Russia since 2018. As supporters celebrate Brittney Griner's release, they — Whelan himself included — are wondering why he was left behind.
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The leader of a small polygamous group on the Arizona-Utah border had taken at least 20 wives, most of them minors, and punished followers who did not treat him as a prophet, new court documents show.
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The law came about in response to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, which called other landmark civil liberties cases into question.
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After a recruit died earlier this year, Navy SEALs have modified their notoriously grueling basic training. But some families worry the changes don't go far enough.
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