Jacksonville FL

Deputies say a masked thief hit a fast-food spot. Do you know this person?

Tampa-based Metro Development Group has opened its Diamond Springs master-planned community in West Jacksonville, where plans call for 2,700 single-family residences and town homes centered by a lagoon. The group describes the development as Duval County’s first lagoon community, saying in a news release that Diamond...

Deputies responded to the 900 block of West 23rd Street just after 10 p.m.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is asking the community to help solve the murder of a man whose body was found floating in the Ortega River in September. On Sept. 20, the JSO Marine Unit responded to the Ortega River and found Robert Velleca, 36, floating...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville man accused of making vile threats to members of the Jewish and African American communities last year was found not guilty Friday by reason of insanity. A federal judge ordered him to be committed to a psychiatric facility. Nathaniel Holmes was arrested last November...

The Nassau County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a man who was involved in an Armed Robbery at the First Federal Bank in Yulee on Friday night.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has not yet begun an internal affairs investigation into the nine officers stripped of their jail duties following a clash with 31-year-old Charles Faggart, who died in early April at UF Health, another loose thread in a slow-moving series of investigations surrounding the...

On October 10, 2025, 47-year-old William McGhin, an employee at the Columbia County Detention Center, was arrested by the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office Drug Task Force for attempting to bring illegal drugs into the facility. The investigation began after jail staff received information suggesting McGhin was...

A U.S. Navy tradition will return to the coastline of Jacksonville Beach on Saturday, Oct. 25, and Sunday, Oct. 26.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – First Coast Crime Stoppers (FCCS) announced on Friday a permanent increase in cash rewards for information leading to arrests in homicide cases across Northeast Florida. FCCS Executive Director Chase Robinson was joined by board members and representatives from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office...