Mayor Curry appoints general counsel after unanimous recommendation from...
Mayor Lenny Curry appointed Jason R. Gabriel as general counsel for the city of Jacksonville Friday after a unanimous recommendation from the search committee. Gabriel has been serving as the city’s...
View Article2 men convicted Thursday after shooting man in Jacksonville Beach then...
Two men who shot a man multiple times outside a 7-Eleven in Jacksonville Beach in 2014 and then left the state were convicted Thursday, the State Attorney’s Office said. Lamonte Charles Arrington, 25,...
View ArticleMan who killed 1 in drunken crash on I-295 sentenced to 20 years
A man who killed someone in a head-on crash in 2013 while intoxicated and driving the wrong way on Interstate 295 in Jacksonville was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday, according to the State...
View ArticleIntruder shoots man to death, turns gun on himself late Friday in...
A man broke into a home in a neighborhood off Beach Boulevard late Friday and went into a bedroom where he shot a man to death before shooting himself in the head, police said. The shooter was...
View ArticleJFRD's lead chaplain wonders about specifics of new role
Percy Golden listened a lot in his eight years as a full-time chaplain for the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department. He’s also helped a lot of people. Golden hears about bodies pulled from fiery car...
View ArticleFamily remembers man shot to death in front of girlfriend as 'caring,...
A funding website created Saturday describes Nicholas Hare as “fun loving, goofy, caring, charismatic, kind hearted and so much more.” That’s how his family and friends will remember him. The funding...
View Article14-year-old charged in mother's stabbing death in Jacksonville home
The last text message Pamela Ann Daughtry sent to her daughter was a desperate cry for help. Daughtry’s 14-year-old son was getting angry and she wanted her grown daughter to come over to talk to him....
View ArticleOrange Park motorcyclist dies after crash Thursday morning near Wal-Mart
A 56-year-old Orange Park man on a motorcycle died Thursday after a man driving a Honda Odyssey turned in front of him on Blanding Boulevard in Clay County, according to the Florida Highway Patrol....
View ArticleReport finds missteps, missed clues by DCF workers preceding death of...
A history of sexual and physical abuse in a multi-family environment in Putnam County where a 4-year-old boy was strangled in July is detailed in a heavily-redacted report released Thursday from the...
View ArticleState attorney declares Jacksonville police shooting justifiable, but family...
The family of a Jacksonville man who was shot to death by police officers in May is still looking for answers they can understand after a meeting with the State Attorney’s Office on Friday — the same...
View ArticleMan in critical condition after being attacked by four 'large, vicious' pit...
A dog attack left a man in critical condition Friday night after the dogs broke out of a fenced-in yard near Jacksonville's Springfield neighborhood. The man was walking in the 1100 block of Pacetti...
View ArticleMan arrested on murder charge in 1993 death of wife transported back to...
A man arrested Monday in Waynesboro, N.C. on a murder charge in the 1993 death of his wife in Jacksonville was transported to Duval County Thursday, according to jail records. Michael Ray Haim, 49, was...
View ArticleMan shot to death Saturday afternoon at hotel in Arlington
A man died after a Saturday shooting at a hotel in Arlington, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. The man was about 40 years old and was shot just after 4 p.m. at the Candlewood Suites at...
View ArticleSt. Augustine man, 27, found dead after apparent ATV crash Friday
A 27-year-old St. Augustine man was found dead near an all-terrain vehicle Friday near Florida 206 after an apparent crash, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office. Robert Michael Humphreys...
View ArticleMan dies Tuesday night after walking into Jacksonville Burger King with...
A man who walked into a Jacksonville Burger King just west of the Intracoastal Waterway with a gunshot wound was later pronounced dead at a hospital Tuesday night and police are looking for the...
View ArticleWrong-way driver who crashed on Dames Point bridge identified as 43-year-old...
A man who drove the wrong way on the Dames Point bridge Tuesday morning and crashed head-on into a pickup truck has been identified as a 43-year-old Mississippi man, according to the Florida Highway...
View ArticlePolice identify man found dead Sunday behind vacant home on Jacksonville's...
A body found by a man walking his dog Sunday afternoon behind a vacant house on the Westside has been identified by the Sheriff’s Office as a 23-year-old Jacksonville man. Jabari C. Baker of the 5800...
View ArticleFamily of Cincinnati man killed in Jacksonville hotel grieving for second...
Johnny Marveil Mooney made a promise when his brother was dying of cancer in 2013. That promise meant flying back and forth from Cincinnati to Jacksonville to look after his brother’s children. The...
View ArticleFormer sailor sentenced to life in prison for death of girlfriend's...
A former Navy sailor who was convicted in the death of his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son was sentenced to life in prison Thursday, according to the State Attorney’s Office. Nicholas James Rivet, 37, was...
View ArticleFBI arrests Orange Park man in connection with plot to bomb 9/11 memorial
On the eve of the anniversary of America’s most devastating terror attack, authorities said they foiled a First Coast man’s plot to bomb an event being held to honor those killed on Sept. 11, 2001.A...
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