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Local Stories for May 2012
Stories for Thursday, May 31
Duval Courthouse: Another month of delays?
The delays keep coming for the Duval County Courthouse. Scheduled testing of the new Adams Street structure's safety systems was postponed until Saturday. Jacksonville Councilman Bill Bishop tells Channel 4, Turner Construction is still in the process of installing the fixes. If the system passes the test, Bishop says the new ...
How are you preparing?
What are you doing to prepare for hurricane season? That’s the question I proposed to people walking around the St. Johns Town Center the morning of Tuesday, May 22. The most common answer I got was, “Nothing.” Most people didn’t seem to be taking it seriously at this point in ...
Another audit gives Jacksonville a black eye
Another city audit gives Jacksonville management a black eye. The latest analysis of city spending is targeting the Office of Special Events. "We didn't like the bookkeeping. The bookkeeping did violate city policies," said city auditor Kirk Sherman. He tells Channel 4 nearly $2-million in your tax dollars were not ...
Four-year-old shoots his foot accidentally
By accident, a 4-year-old boy shot himself in the foot on Thursday in a mobile home on the 1700 block of Leon Road. Police say they're questioning the adults who were inside at the time. They're looking to find out how the boy got access to the gun. He's in ...
NAS JAX CO gives State of the Base
NAS Jacksonville got a chance to unveil some of the projects it's working on this year in the annual State of the Base address. "Whether it's supporting the war fighter, energy infrastructure, or helping the sailors and their families and their quality of life," said NAS JAX Commanding Officer Bob ...
One dead in police-involved shooting
Police say the man killed in today’s officer-involved shooting was involved in an earlier shooting as well. Officers first responded earlier this afternoon to multiple 911 calls about shots fired at 5020 Cleveland Road. They then located a vehicle at the intersection of 45th Street and Avenue B which matched ...
Audio: Spelling bee contestant zings reporter
13 year-old Grace Remmer of St. Augustine is one of 50 semi-finalists taking the stage at the National Spelling Bee. The home-schooled teenager will be on ESPN 2 in tonight's semifinal and final round. A reporter caught up with Remmer for an interview. Listen to how she handles this question ...
Shootings leave 6 dead in already jittery Seattle
A city already anxious about a recent spate of shootings was rattled further when a man walked into an arts cafe near a Seattle university and opened fire, fatally wounding four people. Police say he later killed a woman during a carjacking before shooting himself. As officers closed in during ...
Stories for Wednesday, May 30
Florida teachers union opposing evaluation rule
A lawyer for Florida's statewide teachers union urged an administrative law judge Wednesday to block a proposed rule on teacher evaluations that would be used in part to determine who gets merit pay. The Florida Education Association and two individual teachers contend the state Department of Education's proposal is vague ...
Jags have new ticket strategies
The Jacksonville Jaguars are making moves to try and boost ticket sales this year. They're hiring three new staff members and implementing some new packages. "These moves are all designed to give us more resources and more expertise in some areas that are high priorities. They'll help us deliver on ...
City withdraws lease default letter; Khan shocked and perplexed
In what appears to be miscommunication between the City of Jacksonville and the Jaguars, the city has rescinded its accusation that the city's NFL team violated its contract. The Jaguars recently received a letter saying the team defaulted on its contract. In his own letter to the city, owner ...
Courthouse Annex keeping up for now
Although it was relatively quiet at the Courthouse Annex this afternoon, that doesn’t mean the office has been slow since the old courthouse shut its doors. “A little bit of it is backing up,” says Court Operations Director Steve Johnroe. Johnroe brought in extra staff from the beaches office to ...
Police impersonator sought in St. Johns County
St. Johns County police are asking for help finding a man who impersonated the police and pulled over a woman on State Road 207. Sgt. Chuck Mulligan says they received tips on the man's identity on Wednesday, and they're now looking into those. "At this point in time there's nothing ...
Woman found dead in mobile home
A middle aged woman was found dead inside her mobile home on the Northside this morning. Sgt. Jay Farhat with the JSO told the Times Union that neighbors heard an argument and then someone screaming. Police say they're looking for two men seen leaving the scene in a brown Chevy suburban ...
Two arrests made in drug deal-turned-murder
Two Georgia men are facing murder charges from an April shooting on Jacksonville's Westside. JSO Lieutenant Rob Schoonover says Amato Scott and Dexter Bridges are in custody in Duval County for the shooting death of Mario Smith. “Both confessed to the incident, implicating the other as the short,” he says. A witness ...
When the power goes out, it pays to be prepared
Ben Franklin once said that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and that couldn't be more true when water starts churning and the clouds start forming out in the Atlantic. During a tropical storm or hurricane, it pays to be ready when the power goes out and ...
Kittens maimed by roommate
Another apparent case of animal cruelty. Tuesday we told you about six puppies that had been killed in Jacksonville. This morning we are reading reports of kittens in Palm Coast being maimed, with at least one being killed. According to the Times-Union, one kitten was choked to death, one had his lips bitten off ...
Stories for Tuesday, May 29
Nassau County in state of emergency
The Emergency Operations Board of Nassau County has declared a local state of emergency on Tuesday night, as they continue to clean up after Tropical Storm Beryl. “We’re demonstrating to the state that through the process of damage assessment, there is a reason for calling a regional declaration,” said Daniel ...
Beryl mopping up forest fires
The wind and rain have inconvenienced hundreds of thousands of Northeast Floridians, but they’ve been a big help in putting out the forest fires. “This is exactly what we needed,” said Analeesa Winter, a Wildfire Mitigation Specialist for the Florida Forest Service. “We believe that Beryl will mop up and ...
Mathews Bridge opens after storm damage
The Mathews Bridge is now open in both directions, but delays in removing the "road closed" signs confused motorists on Wednesday morning. A key connector between downtown Jacksonville and Arlington, the bridge was closed late on Sunday evening when winds from TS Beryl damaged a temporary construction deck that is above the roadway. The decking ...
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