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Local Stories for December 2011
Stories for Saturday, December 31
Plane crash at Craig Field
WOKV is on the scene of a small plane crash near Craig Field in Arlington. Jacksonville Fire/Rescue says it responded to the crash a few minutes after 11am Saturday. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office homicide team is also on scene. JFRD confirms one person has died. The pilot appears to be ...
Stories for Friday, December 30
Aircraft manufacturer to bring high paying jobs to Jacksonville
Call it a delayed Christmas present: Jacksonville will start off the new year with a major company bringing jobs to the First Coast. Mayor Alvin Brown just got word that Brazilian aircraft manufacturer, Embraer, will start building military planes at Jacksonville International Airport. The money to bring them here is ...
JSO vehicle collides with fire truck
An unmarked JSO vehicle and a fire truck got tangled in a Friday afternoon collision that sent two people to the hospital. It happened at Beaver Street and Davis Street just after 3:30 p.m. "The two police officers involved in the crash were taken to area hospitals with non life-threatening ...
Time to start thinking about tax returns
You know how they say there are only two certainties in life? Well, the turn of the new year means one of them will be showing up in your mailbox pretty soon...and no, I'm not talking about death. A new year means you'll soon be getting W-2s in the mail, ...
BCS or playoff system: What it means for Jacksonville
This weekend, tens of thousands of rabid Gator and Buckeye fans will be packing downtown Jacksonville for the 2011 Taxslayer.com Gator Bowl at Everbank Field. Since 1998 postseason college football games like the Gator Bowl have been decided by the Bowl Championship Series, or BCS, which places teams in bowls ...
Candidates state their final arguments in Iowa
The final countdown is on -- the Iowa caucuses will be here on Tuesday. And with that, the Republican presidential hopefuls -- most of them, at least -- continue to criss-cross the state to make their final argument to the state's GOP voters. "Are you better off today then you ...
Stories for Thursday, December 29
Mayo Clinic victims of deadly helicopter crash remembered
The doctors of Mayo Clinic are coming together to share their best memories of their fellow employees who died in a helicopter crash. Procurement technician David Hines is remembered for loving his family and his second family - the staff at Mayo Clinic. WATCH the tribute to David Hines. And those ...
Missing woman turns self in to police
A woman Jacksonville Beach police were looking for has turned herself in to police. Police say Abigail Classon showed up at the police station early this morning, and that she's fine. Police are still looking for her ex-boyfriend, James Randall, who has a warrant out for aggravated stalking against Classon. He's ...
Jacksonville weighs in on casinos
WOKV spoke with Beth Wrinkle on how she felt about the idea of expanding gambling in the sunshine state. She says she moves down to Jacksonville from Las Vegas just three years ago, and says she strongly opposes the idea of bringing vegas style gambling to the River City. “After ...
Vegas-style casinos in Florida?
A proposal set to be taken up by the state legislature when it returns to session in the new year could allow three Vegas-style casinos to be built in the southern part of Florida. While gambling industry lobbyists have been in Tallahassee for some time now trying to make sure ...
Police searching for fugitive
Police in St. Johns county are searching for a man they believe to be armed and dangerous. 31-year-old Marcus Bryant is wanted for a weapons-related incident that occurred last month and now for a slew of new charges. On Thursday police received information placing Bryant at one of two locations. ...
Arrest made in teenager hit-and-run
The Florida Highway Patrol has made an arrest in the hit-and-run death of a 13-year-old boy on November 26. Anthony Margadonna,22, of Jacksonville is charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving death, a first degree felony. Police in Clay county say two days after the accident they received ...
Partial list of Sears, K-Mart closings released
The parent company of K-Mart and Sears has released a partial list of the store locations that will be closing due to decreased revenue. Overall, 11 locations in Florida will be closing their doors. K-Marts in St. Augustine and Fernandina Beach are included in the list. The company says it ...
Crash closes down I-95, kills Neptune Beach man
A multi-vehicle wreck sends logs spilling across I-95, a poisonus chemical into a Volusia County neighborhood, and a local man dead. "It hit the mass up there, caught fire and burned, and that was the sequence of events that we know right now," Florida Highway Patrol's Captain Robert Duncan tells ...
Smoke detector saves couple from burning home
A Clay County family is saved from their burning house, thanks to their working smoke detectors. Fire rescue arrived at the home in the Orange Park Country Club just before 3:30 Thursday morning and quickly gained control of the fire. "The homeowners actually had a working smoke detector," says Clay ...
Stories for Wednesday, December 28
South Carolina family robbed at Jax gas station
A South Carolina family making a pit stop at a Jacksonville gas station was kidnapped and robbed at gunpoint Sunday. Police say the Qarango family went inside the gas station on Lem Turner Road and returned to their car to find the robber in their backseat. The man held the parents, a ...
Indiana murder suspect wanted in Florida
New information from the Florida Department of Corrections shows an Indiana man facing murder charges was wanted here in Florida for skipping out on probation. 39-year-old Michael Plumadore was charged with battery of a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or EMS worker in 2000, but didn't show up for his probation ...
Survey: More hires in 2012 for small businesses
Small business owners are stepping into the new year with a lot more confidence. Jennifer Grasz with Career Builder says one-in-four employers plan to hire more full-time, permanent employees in 2012. "When you look at companies that have 50 or fewer employees, 16% plan to add full-time, permanent staff in ...
St. Augustine man helps save Tennessee motorist
One Tennessee motorist has a St. Johns county man and other good samaritans to thank for his life. Willam Womack was driving outside Chattanooga Tuesday when he swerved off the road and went through the guardrail and fell 60 feet into a ravine. John Whetstone saw the accident happened and ...
6000 tickets remain for Jaguars vs. Colts
The Jaguars still need to sell about 6,000 tickets to avoid a blackout for Sunday's game against the Indianapolis Colts where Wayne and Delores Weaver will be honored for their 18 years of service. "We want people here. We're not just doing this to get it on TV. We're doing ...
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