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Local Stories for June 2011
Stories for Tuesday, June 28
Threats sent to Jacksonville offices of U.S. Senators
For the second time in as many days, HAZMAT Teams have crowded Prudential Drive on the Southbank. Yesterday, it was a supposed threat of white powder being sent to the Jacksonville office of Senator Bill Nelson. Today, an envelope with white powder was sent right across the street to the ...
Time capsule shown off at City Hall
A time capsule was found last week inside of the current courthouse in Jacksonville. Inside were newspapers, coins, pictures of the previous courthouses dating back to the 1880's. On Tuesday morning the city held a dedication for the time capsule and also for a marker that'll be constructed outside of ...
Furniture store closing after 87 years
The current recession has done something to a Jacksonville store that the great depression, two world wars and a devastating fire failed to do -- caused it to go out of business. The Times-Union reports Liberty Furniture is closing its doors, ending 87 years of doing business in Jacksonville. The owner ...
Questions about man's death in Panama Park
Jacksonville police discover the body of a man inside an overturned SUV on East 63rd and Main Street early Tuesday morning. We heard from Randall on Facebook who first heard the fire trucks around 2am, and told us that multiple rescue units responded. "We found a person deceased at the ...
Pension reform could save $750-million over the next 35 years
Jacksonville’s City Council could be voting on a pension reform plan for city police and firefighters that would save taxpayers an estimated $750-million over the next 35 years. The bill would have to be taken up as an emergency. The reason it’s being rushed through is because this would be ...
Governor signs unemployment benefit cut
(AP) Governor Rick Scott has signed bills that will cut Florida unemployment compensation benefits and make it harder for patients to win medical malpractice lawsuits. Scott on Monday also vetoed three bills including one (HB 4045) that would have scaled back state regulation of assisted living facilities. The unemployment bill (HB 7005) ...
Lawsuit blames Jacksonville Police negligence for man's death
A wrongful death lawsuit is landing in the laps of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. Kerrie Merrifield is seeking at least $15,000 in damages, but more than that, she wants answers about why her 63-year-old father went for days without the medical attention he needed at the Duval County Jail, that ...
Stories for Monday, June 27
White powdery substance at Bill Nelson's office non-threatening
A letter sent to Rep. Bill Nelson's office containing a white powdery substance was determined to be corn starch, not anthrax. Firefighters cleared out the 20th floor of the Riverplace Tower in downtown when word broke around 3 pm of a suspicious threat letter containing a white substance. 45 minutes ...
New law expands charter schools in Florida
Governor Rick Scott has signed a bill designed to expand charter schools. Scott signed the bill into law Monday at the Hope Charter School in Ocoee. He also ceremonially signed four other education bills he previously signed into law. He then headed for a parochial school in St. Petersburg and a ...
Bomb squad detonates TV with threatening message
The bomb squad blows up a TV in the middle of an Avondale street. The television set had a threat written on it: "You will die watching television". Cops were called to Herschel and Dancy Streets around 3:45am when someone found the TV. No one was hurt.
Small plane lands on Crescent Beach
A small aircraft makes an emergency landing on Crescent Beach. The general-aviation plane landed on the sand at around 12:30 Sunday afternoon. The two people on board were safe and no one on the beach was injured. The plane was reportedly having engine trouble and died mid-air. Pilot Dan Holiday ...
JSO responds to two seperate homicides
Jacksonville police responding to two separate homicide cases on Sunday, one at a Westside apartment complex and another on the Northside. At about 5:20 Sunday afternoon at least nine shots were fired into a crowd of people on Benedict Road. Once the crowd ran off one man was found on ...
Fallen firefighters honored in funeral services
(AP) Firefighters across the state were among more than 1,000 mourners attending funeral services for two state forest rangers killed while fighting a wildfire in north Florida. Josh Burch and Brett Fulton died Monday in Hamilton County. They were using bulldozers to contain a 12-acre blaze that suddenly flared up. ...
UPDATE: Search for missing swimmer called off
The Coast Guard has officially pulled back the search and rescue efforts to find a swimmer reported missing at Atlantic Beach. Crews searched through the night after an unknown person reported the swimmer Sunday night, but the search turned up nothing. No further evidence was recovered and no personal effects ...
Stories for Sunday, June 26
Jax Beach cops shoot, kill robbery suspect
A robbery suspect is shot dead by police in Jacksonville Beach following an armed robbery at the Hampton Inn Hotel. Cops were called to the Marsh Landing Parkway hotel around 11:40pm Saturday and found the armed robbery suspect inside a vehicle parked on the edge of the hotel parking lot. ...
Stories for Friday, June 24
Firefighter laid to rest
People came out in droves to Lake City today to pay respects to 31-year-old Josh Burch, a firefighter killed on Monday when he was overtaken by a wildfire in Hamilton county. Commissioner of Agriculture Adam Putnam says the men's families will never be without support. "We'll be with them now in these chaotic ...
CCSO: Treasurer stole from Boy Scout troop
A former Clay County Boy Scout treasurer is under arrest for allegedly spending some of the troop's money on himself. The Clay County Sheriff's Office says Andre Sewell stole nearly 14-hundred dollars from the troop over the course of a year. They say the money was discovered missing in an ...
Tuition hike at Florida universities
The Board of Governors that oversees Florida's 11 public universities approved Thursday to add a 7 percent tuition increase to an 8 percent raise already ordered by the Legislature. The board approved the 15 percent raise during a meeting at the University of South Florida. The increase was expected, having ...
Suspected St. Johns shooter turns himself in
A man is in custody for the shooting death of a man in Hastings. 43 year-old Eric Felder was shot in the head last night and later died at Flagler Hospital. Cops tell us 21 year-old O'Shea Jackson turned himself in shortly after Midnight. He's facing murder charges. The motive appears to ...
EverBank incentives bill and new parking garage get committee approval
Jacksonville’s City Council Rules Committee approving three bills that involve downtown parking and incentives for EverBank. The members gave the green light to a bill that would give EverBank close to $3-million for moving expenses. In return the bank would create 200 new jobs. The committee also approved a bill ...
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