Jacksonville FL

In a letter to parents, Duval County Public Schools acknowledged an ongoing shortage of speech-language pathologists has caused students to miss therapy sessions.

Waffle House Inc. is cleared to build a 24-hour restaurant along Deerwood Lake Parkway near Tinseltown. The site is along Touchton Road, between Copeland’s of New Orleans restaurant and the Deerwood Lake Commons shopping center anchored by Publix Super Markets Inc. The site is 4319 Deerwood Lake Parkway, on...

Jacksonville residents might want to keep an umbrella handy over the next week, with the National Weather Service (NWS) forecasting a pattern of showers and thunderstorms intermittently hitting the area. According to an update from the NWS Jacksonville, FL, there's a mixed bag of sunny skies and potential wet weather...

Thomas Foods International USA has acquired the former Tyson Foods plant in Jacksonville, Fla., for $3.55 million, with plans to spend $28 million to revitalize the facility. The investment is expected to create up to 100 jobs and boost the port city’s meat processing sector as part of a local...

Civil engineering plans for the former Regency Square Mall show initial plans that include seven outparcels along the front and a good portion of the East Mall to be demolished. Blackwater Development and EnVision Design + Engineering LLC submitted civil engineering plans to the city Sept. 24 that provide a...

A pedestrian was killed early Wednesday in Jacksonville in the 9400 block of Lem Turner Road after being struck in a hit and run crash. Someone called 911 dispatched at 6:50 a.m. to report that a person was laying in the roadway. Officers arrived to find a man in his 40s near the entrance of the lot of Roses grocery...

The incident occurred at about 1:15 a.m. Tuesday at Embassy Suites in the 9300 block of Baymeadows Road.

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said arrived at a hardscape company to find a man pinned between the body and lifting arms of a forklift. He was declared dead on scene.

The second of three Jacksonville PDQ restaurants expected to be converted into the new “Saucy! by KFC” concept is in the Beach Haven area. The city is reviewing a permit for the estimated $375,000 project to turn the PDQ restaurant at 3260 Hodges Blvd. at southwest Beach and Hodges boulevards into Saucy, a concept...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is investing over $83 million to tackle Veteran homelessness across Florida— and one of the largest portions is going to a Jacksonville-based nonprofit.