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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jacksonville’s annual Guns N’ Hoses boxing event returned to the UNF Arena, bringing together police officers and firefighters for a night of charitable competition in the ring. The event, which pits members of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office against Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department...

Aldi is expected to open Downtown by early 2026 and in preparation, the city is reviewing renovation permits – and now those for three signs that will show the German grocer’s name and logo. Prime Sign Installation LLC of Jacksonville is the contractor for the three sign permits,...

A remembrance event at Jacksonville’s POW/MIA Memorial honored prisoners of war like Ted Gostas and spotlighted the ongoing mission to locate more than 80,000 U.S. service members still missing in action.

Community engagement through social media has once again proved to be a force for good in the case of a missing 8-year-old boy from Jacksonville, Florida. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office credited public tips, which flowed in after a social media blitz, for the safe location of La’Meldrick Washington, barely a day...

Families on Jacksonville’s Northside are facing increased challenges in accessing prescription medications following the closure of two Walgreens stores in the area.

On a hot summer afternoon back in July of 1967, just a few blocks off Route 1, Jacksonville Times- Union photographer Rocco Morabito was returning from covering another assignment when he glanced up at the sky. There against a brilliant blue backdrop, a number of Jacksonville Electric Authority (JEA) lineman...

A Jacksonville man has been indicted after federal investigators say he tried to meet a 13-year-old child for sex.

A Florida judge convicted a 33-year-old man of murdering his wife with a metal pipe because she committed "voodoo" on him for "several years" and he was fed up with it. Samijo Hemans was convicted Thursday of second-degree murder in the death of his wife, Catherine Hemans, 33, in Jacksonville, the Office of the State...

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said it got a call Thursday night from a female victim. Officers arrived to find the caller and three adult males had all been shot.

Free local news and info, in your inbox at 6 a.m. M-F. Jacksonville’s unemployment rate jumped in August to its highest level in more than four years, whenthe economy was beginning its recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. The unemployment rate in the Jacksonville metropolitan area of Baker, Clay, Duval,...