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Local Stories for June 2011
Stories for Friday, June 24
4-year-old ejected on the highway and in critical condition
Six people were in a Jeep that flipped over on the I-10 ramp to I-295. Of the six, a 4 year old was ejected onto the highway and taken to Shands Hospital after suffering critical injuries. 4-year-old Shayne Gould suffered the worst injuries of all six. The Florida Highway Patrol ...
Alvin Brown’s inauguration plans
On July 1 Mayor-Elect Alvin Brown becomes mayor and he has now released his inauguration plans. Most of the events are free and open to the public. Thursday – 8:00 a.m. – Interfaith breakfast at the Hyatt Regency Downtown (must have tickets, first come, first serve) Thursday – 1:00 p.m. ...
Severe storms leave a trail of damage
Thursday's severe storms raked across the area during the peak of afternoon drive. Nearly two inches of rain fell at JIA, and about an inch fell in Arlington. In Fort Caroline, a neighbor's tree came crashing down on Catherine Pence's husband's shiny brand new truck. "Two weeks, just brand new, ...
Stories for Thursday, June 23
State to BP: Time to pay up
The state is ready to put a solid dollar amount on how much British Petroleum owes Florida for last year's oil spill. Economists started to crunch numbers on Wednesday trying to find exactly how much the BP oil spill cost the state of Florida. Rob Weissert of Florida Tax Watch says ...
Undercover cops exposed to drug dealers
An employee of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office is now gainfully unemployed after being arrested on Wednesday in connection with illegal distribution of confidential information. Kenitra Casper, 27, worked in the JSO records office and now faces felony and misdemeanor charges after she confessed to sending out texts and emails ...
Division of Forestry: Latest wildfire update
Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI) is a continuous reference scale for estimating the dryness of the soil and duff layers. The index increases for each day without rain (the amount of increase depends on the daily high temperature) and decreases when it rains. The scale ranges from 0 (no moisture deficit) ...
Dense smoke advisory for Jacksonville
The National Weather Service issuing a dense smoke advisory for Northeast Florida today through 4 in the afternoon. The latest wildfire update from the Division of Forestry lists 37 active wildfires in the Jacksonville district. Most of the fires have not been contained and probably won’t be until we get ...
Overturned semi causes hours of delays on I-10
Late Wednesday night a semi-truck slide across all three lanes of I-10 eastbound causing heavy delays during the morning drive. It took several tow trucks more than seven hours to move the semi-truck to the left shoulder. The wreck caused hour’s worth of delays for drivers trying to get to ...
Stories for Wednesday, June 22
Funerals scheduled for slain firefighters
The families of the two firefighters killed battling wildfires have made funeral arrangements for their loved ones. The family of Josh Burch will have a funeral service on Friday June 24th at 10 am at Christ Central Ministries Church in Lake City. Brett Fulton's family will hold a service on ...
Smoke comes back in; rain finally in the forecast
We're watching smoke settle across the First Coast again and the usual afternoon sea breeze won't help in clearing that up. Meteorologist Pete Wolf at the National Weather Service says the fires in Southern Georgia have put up so much smoke into the Atlantic Ocean that when the afternoon sea ...
Three Jacksonville high schools ranking among the best
Three Jacksonville public high schools ranking among some of the best in the country according to Newsweek. Stanton College Prep was 4 on their list of 500. Douglas Anderson School of the Arts was 129, and PAXON School for Advanced Studies was 170. There were three schools also listed from ...
Stories for Tuesday, June 21
UPDATE: Family of missing teen IDs body
The family of 19-year-old Kalil McCoy has identified her as the woman found dead in Talleyrand on Tuesday evening. Two men searching for scrap metal in the woods off of East 31st Street found the body. McCoy was reported missing on Sunday after she left a nightclub in Arlington. ...
JSO looking for missing woman
Police are asking people to keep an eye out for Rosemary Rivas Day, a woman who went missing on May 30th. Day is 5'4" and 150 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. Her blue 2003 Toyota Corolla is also missing. The license plate number is 568TNW Anyone with information ...
Division of Forestry: Latest wildfire update
(Here's the latest wildfire update from the Division of Forestry) June 21, 2011 PM Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI) is a continuous reference scale for estimating the dryness of the soil and duff layers. The index increases for each day without rain (the amount of increase depends on the daily high ...
Smoke across Jacksonville triggers air quality advisory
Smoke is back in the First Coast today blanketing just about all of the city. The dense smoke has caused the National Weather Service to send out an advisory and the City of Jacksonville also issuing an air quality advisory. That advisory has been added below. The smoke is expected ...
Ex-cop returning to prison
A former Jacksonville police officer goes back to drugs -- and goes back to prison. Carl Kohn Jr. was kicked off the force a decade ago for selling cocane from his patrol car while in uniform. He served prison time for that... but he returned to a life of drugs ...
Teachers union sues over pension pay-in
Florida's statewide teachers union is taking the lead in a lawsuit that seeks to block a requirement for teachers, state workers and many local government employees to contribute 3 percent of their pay to the state pension fund. The suit filed Monday also challenges a phase-out of cost-of-living increases in ...
Stories for Monday, June 20
UPDATED: 2 firefighters killed, 2 injured
Two Division of Forestry firefighters were killed while battling the Blue Ribbon Fire in Hamilton County west of Baker. The two have been identified as 31-year-old Josh Burch and 52-year-old Brett Fulton. Burch was a Forest Ranger who lived in Lake City with his wife and two kids. He worked with the ...
4th of July fireworks to be monitored closely
You might want to think about going to a town organized fireworks show this 4th of July instead of doing your own. Not only is it illegal already, but Sheriffs Departments all over NE Florida will be cracking down. Burn bans in Baker, Clay, and St. Johns counties include personal ...
Superintendent puts in one more request for intervene schools
Duval's Superintendent says they've done their best to overhaul the county's four lowest performing schools. "We've done a lot of professional development with teachers. We had replaced over half of the faculty at all three of those schools, including North Shore," says Superintendent Ed Pratt-Dannals. But it doesn't look like it ...
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