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Local Stories for November 2012
Stories for Friday, November 30
Graduation rate up for Duval schools
Another gain for Duval County Schools. State educations officials announced the state and county graduation rates today, and Duval County has climbed 4.42% from last year to 67.69%. The biggest gain was made by Ribault High School, up 21.96% from last year. Paxon School for Advanced Studies and Darnell-Cookman Middle/High ...
Third arrest in dice game murder
The third man wanted in a shooting following a dice game has been caught. 20-year-old Tyrone Taylor was arrested in Brunswick, Georgia. He is charged in the death of 16-year-old Ranod McKann. McKann was fatally shot late September when he met up with a friend who had just won about ...
Jaxport CEO in negotiations with Tampa Port
Jaxport CEO Paul Anderson has not accepted his job offer from the Tampa Port Authority to become their new CEO. But his contract negotiations have started, providing another sign that he's likely to take the position. "I certainly do believe that that's gonna happen," said William "Ho" Brown, chairman of ...
Accidental pellet gun shooting critically injures one man
One man remains in critical condition after police say he was accidentally shot with a pellet gun. 22-year-old Charles Howey was visiting 21-year-old Cory Barnes at 8223 Hewitt Street. They were playing around with the pellet gun when it discharged and hit Howey’s heart. He was brought to a local ...
SJC woman arrested for 5 grams of cocaine
The St. Johns County Sheriff’s office has one woman in custody who may be at the center of recent shootings in West Augustine. Detectives were investigating the shootings when they served a search warrant on a home on the 400 block of Aiken Street. The Sheriff’s Office has received numerous ...
Jacksonville man sentenced for extorting dozens of women
A Jacksonville man will spend 5 ½ years in federal prison for extorting dozens of women and possessing child porn. 24-year-old Joshua Jay Williamson received the sentence Thursday in Jacksonville. Court documents say Williamson hacked in to the email and social networking sites of dozens of women between February and ...
Mickelson hosting gala event at Sawgrass
Phil Mickelson is in town hosting a gala event for "Birdies for the Brave" at TPC Sawgrass. Mickelson and his wife founded the organization ni 2004, raising money for nine non-profit organizations that support members of the military. "It started with Phil and (wife) Amy donating $100 per birdie (and) $500 ...
Stories for Thursday, November 29
Woman reconvicted in boyfriend's murder
A woman has been convicted for her boyfriend’s murder, which happened while they were committing a felony. The State Attorney’s Office says Shaketa Sharell Jones spent several days staking out a Gate gas station on Atlantic Boulevard in May 2010. She was communicating with her boyfriend, Jessie Cooper, who was ...
200 sailors returning to Jacksonville
It will be a big “Mayport welcome” for more than 200 sailors returning home Saturday. The USS Klakring is returning to Naval Station Mayport after a six month deployment. Mayport Public Affairs Officer Bill Austin says the crew was performing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance for anti-piracy efforts off the coast ...
$85 million JU improvements include football stadium, basketball facility
It’s the largest comprehensive fundraising campaign Jacksonville University has ever taken on, but the incoming President is ready. “We’re excited about the ASPIRE campaign,” President-select Tim Cost tells me. Cost says the $85 million campaign is already underway, and they’re raised about $43 million so far from mostly individual commitments. ...
Notable names leaving top posts in Jacksonville?
Two drivers of Jacksonville's economic engines look like they're vacating their posts. The leader of the JAX Chamber is ready for retirement. President Wally Lee told WOKV in a letter that he leaves the Chamber after nearly 25 years of services. "I look forward to fresh, new business and civic ...
$114.1 million drug offload in Mayport
“It’s just piles upon piles of bundles.” That’s the best way he knew to paint the scene of what it looked like to stand among $114.1 million dollars in cocaine and marijuana. The offload of these drugs will happen at Naval Station Mayport Friday morning, and Lieutenant Commander Corey Barker ...
Tarp coming off when Jags face Jets
A bigger crowd expected for the next Jaguars home game. The team announced today they will be removing the tarp from section 404 for their game against the New York Jets on Sunday, December 9. Kickoff will be 1 PM. There are a limited number of seats available and each ...
Victims in NW Jacksonville shooting ID'ed
Jacksonville Police have identified two men shot and killed at the Island Breeze Restaurant and Lounge two weeks ago. Police responding to the Northwest Jacksonville nightclub found a car that had been shot multiple times. There was one man found shot in the passenger seat. He was pronounced dead at ...
Teacher admits to sex with student
A Duval County teacher is admitting she had sex with a student. 23-year-old Danielle Reed - a teacher at Atlantic Coast High School - was sentenced today to five years probation, and is not allowed to have any contact with the victim. She'll also have to find a new line ...
South Florida colleges now all-clear following full lockdown
Florida Atlantic University and Palm Beach State College are now all-clear after getting locked down for about three hours this afternoon. The two colleges were locked down after reports of an armed robbery at FAU. Students were first alerted shortly after 1 PM that the man was seen in the ...
City to start pilot for homeless day shelter downtown
Calling it not a hand out but a hand up, Mayor Alvin Brown announced Thursday that the city would be trying out a year-long pilot program for a homeless day center which would operate out of the City Rescue Mission in downtown. "This is about creating a sense of empowerment, ...
Man charged with DUI in hit-and-run arrested again for DUI
A man who was charged with misdemeanor DUI in an August hit-and-run at the Jacksonville Landing that left one person dead was arrested on Sunday in Baker County and is facing another DUI charge. 32-year-old Brian Patterson of Macclenny was pulled over after an officer spotted him slamming on his ...
Mack to Argentina: Pay up
Connie Mack is hoping to give one of his biggest donors a parting gift before he leaves Congress. "USA Today" is reporting Mack is sponsoring a measure to force Argentina to pay U.S. investors over $3.5-billion on bonds that it defaulted on. Among the investors wanting his money back is ...
"There was no gun"
The father of one of the teenagers who was in the SUV when his friend was fatally shot at a Southside gas station says the accused murderer is lying when he says he saw a gun. Steven Stanislaus says his son was with three other teenagers when Michael Dunn, 45, ...
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