Jacksonville FL

Craig Shoup, who had served with the Jacksonville Bar Association since 2017, was offered the position of Neighborhoods Administrator on September 12.

This weekend’s Black Book Bash may be an antidote to the antagonistic position policymakers and some publishers show toward Black authors and stories. The inaugural festival will bring more than 150 authors to Jacksonville for three days of connection with literary consumers, community among authors and conversation...

Business owners on Wells Road in Orange Park are taking issue with an ongoing remodel of the intersection of Wells Road and Blanding Boulevard.

For years after starting her company in Northeast Florida, contractor Amany Youssef pretended that she wasn’t the owner. “I was so afraid that people would find out a girl owned it,” she says.

Chief Administrative Officer Karen Bowling stepped down from the post she's held since she joined Mayor Donna Deegan's administration in the biggest departure from the team Deegan assembled when she took office in July 2023. Bowling gave written notice of her resignation in an Oct. 1 text message to Deegan. "Mayor...

Former LSU wide receiver Kyren Lacy was accused of vehicular homicide in a fatal December 2024 crash. New evidence clears his name.

A Florida man who was out on bond has been arrested in connection with an alleged hit-and-run that took the life of a teenage girl. Genesis Webber, 13, was walking on a route on Arlington Road North in Jacksonville, Florida, on Tuesday night when she was hit by a truck that jumped the sidewalk. The Jacksonville...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — For the first time, Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan brought her River City Readers Bookmobile on Friday morning to the North Florida School of Special Education. The mobile library is part of her citywide literacy initiative, aimed at improving reading skills and making books accessible to every...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Day three of testimony in the trial of Marcel Johnson and Kentrevious Garard, who are accused in the 2022 shooting death of 13-year-old Prince Holland, centered on forensic evidence, crime lab analysis and rap music videos meant to show the two men’s association. The morning...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The man charged in a deadly hit and run on I-10 back in May 2024 will spend the next five years in prison. Twenty-five year old Dante Lawrence was sentenced to prison Thursday after pleading guilty to leaving the scene of a crash involving death. Lawrence...