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Local Stories for January 2013
Stories for Thursday, January 31
WOKV INVESTIGATES: Could your tax dollars fund a study of non-city real estate?
This week on WOKV, I’ve told you about the city’s proposal now moving through City Council on getting an accurate roll of city-owned real estate. I’ve now learned the current roll may be more problematic than first thought- and that could cost you. I’ve discovered a 1997 city ordinance which ...
Officials search St. Johns River for missing Clay man
A 69 year-old Green Cove Springs man is reporting missing, and officials are concerned he may have fallen into the St. Johns River. The Green Cove Springs Police Department says John H. Butler was last seen Monday by patrons of a nearby restaurant at a golf course on State Road ...
Southside neighborhood residents on lookout for attacker
Jacksonville Police are actively searching for a man who tried to abduct a woman on the southside. The 25-year-old woman was jogging in the Timberlin Park neighborhood near the Avenues Mall last night when she saw the man but continued jogging. A short time later she noticed the man behind ...
"Elaborate" grow house uncovered in St. Augustine
An anonymous tip leads St. Johns County Sheriff’s deputies to uncover a grow house worth an estimated $157,000. 47-year-old Michael Shane Colvin was arrested for cultivating cannabis and has since been released on bond. Deputies from several law enforcement agencies were executing a search warrant on Colvin’s home on Tammy ...
Condition improving for man injured in hit-and-run
The pedestrian struck by a man who fled the scene of the crash has showed some improvement in condition. 30-year-old Joseph Alan Bastian is now listed in serious condition, after being critical yesterday. He was hit at the intersection of Atlantic Boulevard and Southside Boulevard last night by a driver ...
PICTURE: Woman uses stolen card to get cash
Jacksonville police need your help finding an unknown suspect who they say used a stolen card to withdraw a large sum of money from a bank. Jacksonville Sheriff's Office says on Friday afternoon, January 18, officers responded to a car burglary at Abess Park Elementary located at 12731 Abess Blvd. ...
St. Johns deputy involved in two-car crash
A St. Johns County Sheriff’s deputy suffered no injuries in a collision with another car. The Florida Highway Patrol says the deputy, 32-year-old Brandon C. Allsup, was driving south on Holmes Boulevard with lights and sirens engaged while responding to an emergency call. At the same time, 48-year-old Lisa Lorenzo, ...
Driver in critical condition after hitting utility pole
We’ve learned more information about the accident which shut down part of University Blvd early this morning. The Florida Highway Patrol says 23-year-old Sydney E. Hixon, of Ponte Vedra Beach, was driving eastbound on university at a high speed before traveling in to the right shoulder and hitting a concrete ...
PHOTOS: Police search for Arlington robbery suspect
Jacksonville Police need your help identifying a man suspected of robbing a Bank of America today. The robbery took place at 10:25 AM at the branch on 2709 Monument Road in Arlington. The suspect gave the teller a note asking for money. After he was given money he then fled ...
Stories for Wednesday, January 30
State GOP unsure on how to fund Scott's billion dollar education boost
Expect to hear about more funding for Florida classrooms when Governor Rick Scott unveils his budget proposal Thursday afternoon in Tallahassee. Post on Politics reporter John Kennedy says the education budget has been on a rollercoaster during the Scott administration. "His first year as governor, Scott signed a budget that ...
JFRD quickly contains Westside brush fire
Jacksonville Fire and Rescue were able to quickly contain a Westside fire which was threatening nearby homes. JFRD responded to the 300 block of Purcell Drive around 4 PM Wednesday, where a 10 acre brush fire was within 25 feet of nearby homes. Crews work quickly to surround the fire, ...
Jacksonville subcontractors have timeline for payment
I’ve continued to follow the progress in getting Jacksonville’s subcontractors paid for work they did on the new county courthouse up to seven months ago to learn a timeline has been set. Just one week ago, the Courthouse Oversight Special Committee gave the city a deadline to craft a timeline ...
Mother pleads to selling sex with daughter for drugs
The Jacksonville Beach woman charged with selling sex with her six-year-old for drugs has pleaded guilty. 36-year-old Dalina Nicholas is one of five people arrested in the abuse of the girl. Nicholas pled to four counts of Child Neglect and faces up to 30 years in prison. Police say she ...
Pedro Menendez deals with second student death
For the second time in less than a week, the senior class of Pedro Menendez High School is dealing with loss. 18-year-old Jerad Revels died this morning when a tractor he was driving overturned on top of him. 19-year-old Ryan Ford was killed during a fight at a Friday night ...
18-year-old dies in tractor accident
An 18-year-old senior at Pedro Menendez High School has died in a tractor accident. The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office says Jerad Anthony Revels was driving an open cab tractor on the family farm off Cowpen Branch Road this morning, where a family member found the tractor overturned on top ...
Bomb squad investigates package sent to Westside school
A suspicious package addressed to the Cedar Creek Christian School’s administrator turns out to be returned items. "Upon opening the contents, they wre items being returned from an employee that was terminated about two to three weeks ago," said Assistant Chief Pat Ivey with JSO. The administrator tells police the ...
Teen Dies in Tractor Accident
A Senior at Pedro Menendez High School is dead after a freak tractor accident this morning in Hastings. The St. John's County Fire Rescue Department says 18 year Jerad Revels was dead when first responders arrived on the scene around 8 this morning. No foul play is suspected ...
Former FBI agent provides hostage situation insight
A former FBI agent joined our news partner Action News on Wednesday to give an expert's perspective on the child hostage situation in Alabama near Dothan. Police, SWAT teams and the FBI are at a rural property in Alabama where a man was believed to be holed up in a ...
Property owner says he wasn't aware of bonfire partiers
The owner of the property in Mandarin where a 19 year-old St. Augustine man was beaten during a bonfire party says he’s tried to block off his family’s camping grounds from trespassing teens for years. Phil Genovar, the owner of Dixie Auto Parts in St. Augustine, tells our partner Action ...
Construction delays in Mandarin
Everywhere you turn there’s construction on the roads. The weekly list of lane closings from the Florida Department of Transportation shows construction on 295 (East and West Beltway), I-95, I-10 and surface streets. The FDOT and other agencies usually schedule these lane closures during non-peak periods but even though lanes ...
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