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Retired minister: "In God We Trust" has no place on Clay seal
It's a story that created some controversy: whether or not to include the phrase "In God We Trust" on the official Clay County seal. After the county commission passed the proposal in March people from all over were sharing their thoughts, mainly centering around whether or not adding the phrase ...
Clay County Sheriff's Office hopes to train others through tragedy
It's been more than a year now, but Detective Matt Hanlin still remembers every detail of the night he was shot and his partner was killed while responding to a call about a meth lab on Alligator Boulevard in Middleburg. He stood in front of members of law enforcement from ...
More victims of Jacksonville attorney emerge
A man who says Cynthia Nichols stole 250 thousand dollars from his grandmother is speaking out, saying he felt early on that something was amiss with the Jacksonville attorney. His grandmother, Alice Lucas, had been staying in a home that Nichols allegedly purchased with money she stole from a ...
Two school bus accidents snarl traffic in Arlington, Green Cove Springs
A couple of accidents involving school buses created traffic issues in Jacksonville and Green Cove Springs early Wednesday morning. A bus headed to Kirby and Landon Middle Schools was rear-ended at Merrill Road and Townsend according to a spokeswoman for Duval County Public Schools. None of the eight children on ...
City agrees to fix ADA compliance issues
It's an issue that's been plaguing Jacksonville for a while...violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The city now says it's going to fix those problems. "I absolutely do think it's a good think and I hope they keep their promise," Linda Schlatman, who has been in a wheelchair for ...
Jax lawyer accused of stealing $100K from elderly client
Imagine trusting a lawyer to watch your back and take care of your money. Now imagine finding out that lawyer swindled you and others to the tune of $100,000 and then spent the money on a lavish lifestyle. This has become a reality for several clients of a Jacksonville attorney ...
Old Best Bet poker room burgled
Police in St. John County searching for a man they say robbed the Best Bet Poker Room on Racetrack Road. St. Johns county deputies say the suspect forced two doors open to get in, took numerous DVRs, big screen TVs, an antique desk, and a gray utility trailer from outside ...
Police need help finding liquor store burglars
Jacksonville police need the public's help identifying three burglars who broke into a liquor store in Mandarin... JSO says the suspects broke a front window at the ABC Liquors at San Jose and Sunbeam, filled up a shopping cart with 22 bottles of booze, and left. All three suspects are ...
Possible lessons learned for local law enforcement
As the search for answers in the Boston Marathon bombings continues we're talking to local law enforcement about the lessons learned from police response. "It's way too soon for probably all of the law enforcment agencies tos it down together and conduct a debrief, but when that occurs, yes, we ...
Two dead after Friday crash on Roosevelt Blvd.
Two people are dead after a crash on Roosevelt Boulevard Friday night. JSO says a bit after 9:30 p.m. 25-year-old Sean Wieland was heading north in the 1300 block of Roosevelt in Ortega. Police say he was going too fast and couldn't negotiate the right hand curve so he careened ...
Florida teachers won't get full $2,500 raise
Governor Scott will get the $480 million he wanted for teacher pay raises, but he won't get the across the board $2,500 raise he's been championing for months. Instead, raises will be given to teachers based on performance and merit. The fine print of how that will work still has ...
Clay teachers' jobs at stake?
Teachers in Clay county received some ominous letters that could mean their jobs end when the school year does. Parents say they're concerned for their children's education "You're taking away from education from the rest of the public...that would have a great impact," says parent Wes Watson. Over 700 faculty ...
High school basketball coach charged with soliciting student
A high school basketball coach charged with soliciting sexual activity from a minor bonded out of jail on Tuesday after he was fired from Liberty High School in Osceola County on Friday. Sheriff's deputies say the parents of a 17-year-old student told them 27-year-old Bryan Lockley was texting her pictures ...
Daycare owner tricks gunman, saves kids
A quick-thinking Westside daycare owner says a masked gunman held her up and threatened to kill the children she was watching on Wednesday morning. "I'm glad to be here to tell the story because anything could have went the opposite way," says Kids in Motion Learning Academy owner Meltonia Wright ...
Clay county officially enforcing sweepstakes ban
At 12:01 Wednesday morning Clay county officially began enforcing the ban on internet gaming centers. In Clay county they've been shutting down some of the sweepstakes locations since 2007. Capt. Barry Abramowitz says calling them internet cafes is a misnomer. "One, it's not a cafe. Two, in most cases the ...
Mass Gen. student: "You didn't know if it was the end"
Three minutes before twin explosions rocked the finish line of the Boston Marathon, 23-year-old Bryant Hoard and his girlfriend had just watched her brother run by on his final stretch of the race. The two of them had just started working their way through dense crowds on Boylston Street back ...
Scam alert: Fake charities for Boston victims appearing
You'll want to be on the lookout for fake charities popping up in the wake of the Boston marathon bombings. With social media allowing people to connect with so many others at once, it's easy for scam artists to send a phony link to a lot of people that could ...
Homeland security grant money vanishing in Jacksonville
Monday's bombings at the Boston Marathon could force the feds to take a look at how grant money from the Department of Homeland Security is appropriated to different cities. Boston is annually one of the biggest recipients of homeland security grant money because it's a huge population center and holds ...
Motorcyclist dies in fatal NW Jax crash
A motorcyclist is dead after colliding with pickup truck at MLK Parkway at the I-95 entrance ramp. 26-year-old Norman Spaulding died in the accident Friday night after he was thrown from his Honda motorcycle. According to FHP, Spaulding was heading north in the outside lane of U.S. 1 when his ...
13-year-old shot by 11-year-old; Two adults charged
A 13 year-old girl was killed over the weekend after an 11-year-old boy who was playing with the gun shot her in the head. The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office says Jamarius Vining was playing with a loaded .22 caliber handgun on Saturday afternoon and shot 13-year-old Titania Mitchell, killing her instantly. ...
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