Jacksonville FL

Divine Dessert by Tamara is a locally owned bakery on the Westside of Jacksonville that has been in business since 2019. Tamara King, owner of Divine Dessert, knew from a young age that she had an interest in baking and a desire to make people happy. “When my grandmothers would...

In downtown Jacksonville, a one-way bus ticket out of town has quietly become one of the city’s go-to tools for dealing with homelessness. The Homeward Bound program offers travel to people living on the streets who say they have family or other support systems somewhere else. It pairs the Jacksonville Sheriff’s...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – An officer with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has been arrested after he claimed more than 200 hours of overtime for traffic enforcement shifts that he never worked, Sheriff T.K. Waters announced Thursday. Waters acknowledged that during at least some of those false overtime claims, which...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WFLA) — Officers located a missing man sitting alone in the woods on Jan. 20 after his daughter reported that he wandered away earlier that day, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said. The sheriff’s office said the daughter called after her elderly father wandered away from his home, saying she...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Months after he and his cousin were sentenced to life in prison for the 2020 murder of 23-year-old Charles “Lil Buck” McCormick Jr., Hakeem “Ksoo” Robinson pleaded guilty in the death of another fellow Jacksonville rapper. In the separate murder charge, Robinson...

A man from Jacksonville was found alive after he went missing this month, says the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office.

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. — The Jacksonville Beach Police Department says it is preparing for another possible teen gathering after five young people were shot during a weekend takeover in Jacksonville Beach. Investigators say the shooting happened Saturday night near Beach Boulevard and 2nd Street — close to the...

Parsec is shutting down its northside Jacksonville terminal after losing a major customer contract, a move that is expected to leave nearly 150 employees without work by spring. The company has started winding down operations at the site and has told staff to anticipate the closure in the coming weeks, a major blow...

The family of 72-year-old Margaret Hanley, who went missing from her Westside Jacksonville home, is speaking out after her body was found in Hinesville, Georgia. They say the search for her could have been handled more quickly.

There is a lake in Florida that has been quietly sitting in the same spot for thousands of years, and most people have never heard of it. It sits in a near-perfect circle, its water so clear you can see straight to the sandy bottom, and the wildlife there acts like it owns the place because, honestly, it does.