Breezy Jazz House signals work starting for Downtown music venue
Six months after approval for city incentives, Breezy Jazz House is starting work toward opening a club Downtown. Landlord 327 E. Bay LLC, an area ownership group, applied to the city for a permit to demolish interior walls and equipment in the 3,500-square-foot space at 337 E. Bay St., which appears to have been...
Nassau sheriff calls bestiality case involving a dog ‘disgusting’
A 68-year-old Nassau County man has been charged in a bestiality case of a dog at his Bryceville home, according to the Sheriff’s Office. James Franklin Piner Jr. was charged Feb. 26 with sexual activities involving animals and remained in jail March 2 in lieu of $15,000 bail, jail records show. A witness notified...
Missing Florida Man Rescued After Being Buried Up To His Shoulders In ‘Quicksand’ Mud...
Rescuers recently saved a missing Florida man who had been stuck for days in shoulder-deep mud that resembled quicksand. The man first went missing on Valentine’s Day, and no one found him until this past Thursday. The 36-year-old Jacksonville man was the subject of a missing persons report since his family last saw...
Regency Plaza Burlington deploying ‘2.0’ strategy with $2.4 million project
Work continues to subdivide the Burlington store in Regency Plaza in Arlington into three spaces – one for a smaller Burlington, one for a new AutoZone and another for a future retailer. Burlington, a big-box off-price retailer that sells apparel, decor and other merchandise, has long leased about 81,000...
Disgraced cop ‘stole 200 overtime hours’ while ‘at police chief girlfriend’s house’ as he...
A FLORIDA cop is facing charges after he allegedly logged over 200 hours of fake overtime, racking up over $14,000. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office officer, Christian Madsen, was found to be seeing his girlfriend, who was also his boss, during the improperly filed overtime hours. Madsen was arrested on...
World of Nations Celebration returns to Jacksonville with food, culture and music
About 25,000 people are expected to pour into Jacksonville this weekend for the World of Nations Celebration.
‘I was preparing to die’: Woman credits less-invasive heart procedure for new lease on...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – As February closes out American Heart Month, patients and doctors gathered at Ascension St. Vincent’s Riverside for a heart patient reunion aimed at celebrating lives saved and treatments that restored them. At 79 years old, Kathleen vonKoschenbahr hugged the interventional cardiologist she...
DOJ: Jacksonville man pleads guilty to attempting to entice a 13-year-old online
Jerry Cobb, 38, of Jacksonville, pleaded guilty to attempting to entice a 13-year-old child to engage in sexual activity using a cellphone and the internet. Cobb faces a minimum of 10 years in federal prison following an undercover operation by the FBI.
SWAT team seizes over 100K deadly doses of fentanyl from Florida ‘trap house’
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (CBS12) — Two Florida 'trap houses' were raided by a SWAT team, uncovering large amounts of fentanyl, cocaine, guns, and cash, leading to a man's arrest. According to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, Narcotics Office detectives arrested Brandon Rollins in February after a search warrant at a home...
Shady Rest Alpacas full of fluffy fun!
Shady Rest Alpacas is a fun, educational and sustainable farm in Jacksonville. The owner, Trina Hope, is an animal lover and has a heart for all animals. She said alpacas were never on her radar until she took a trip to Martha’s Vineyard with her husband and visited an alpaca farm called Island Alpacas. She said that...
