Jacksonville FL

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A devastating crash on State Road 9B near E-Town Parkway Sunday afternoon left one North Carolina woman dead and five others — including three minors — seriously injured, according to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP). Fatal crash occurred during attempted lane change. The incident...

The city issued a permit Aug. 4 for Publix Super Markets Inc. to build a frozen foods warehouse at its West Jacksonville distribution complex along Interstate 10 at a project cost of almost $136 million. Gray Construction Inc. of Lexington, Kentucky, is the contractor. Gray AES of Lexington is the...

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The Duval County School Board is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a pivotal resolution that would allow the district to hire its own in-house legal counsel, following a discovery of double-billing by the Office of General Counsel.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (TCN) -- A woman will spend three decades behind bars for fatally shooting her girlfriend and hiding the victim's body under a tarp. The Florida State Attorney's Office for the Fourth Judicial Circuit announced July 31 that Shannon McCarthy pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, tampering with...

“Did he make a mistake? Yes. He made a big mistake. A huge one. My little brother, he is not a monster.” - Ayanna Russell

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has disrupted several “teen takeovers” over the last few weeks, resulting in the recovery of guns, drugs and several arrests made. The teen takeovers are large gatherings of juveniles at public locations organized through social media. JSO said the...

NAVAL STATION MAYPORT, Fla. – Four-year-old Ricky stands at Naval Station Mayport, his eyes fixed on the USS St. Louis. The 378-foot Freedom-variant littoral combat ship rests against the dock. It is the biggest vessel Ricky says he has ever seen. He calls it “Mommy’s ship.”. His...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jacksonville is seeing one of the biggest drops in home prices in the country, ranking third among major metro areas for the biggest year-over-year decrease. The median home-sale price fell by 3.1% in Jacksonville last week, according to a new report from Redfin. In fact, according...

Jacksonville soon will have the first training center operated by a railroad company to teach firefighters how to handle railway hazardous material spills. Railroad company CSX will partner with Florida State College at Jacksonville on the facility. The center will expand the existing academy at FSCJ’s south campus...