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Posted: 4:59 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011

8/18: Obama jobs plan includes stimulus 

Rich Jones

Another warm day with a chance of rain and storms in the afternoon.  Better chances of rain and storms this weekend.

Breaking News in Mandarin, where a 15 year-old was struck by a vehicle while headed to cross country practice.  Hear Kevin Rincon's update at 7:55am. 

Our Top Local Story:  The list of schools with D's and F's in Duval County is long, and that's forcing parents of more than one-thousand students to get out of their current schools. So if you have a kid at Mandarin High, they'll be joined by more than 300 new faces. 

A Clay County public works employee is arrested for allegedly mowing down four ducklings. The Times-Union reports 29-year-old Mark Akers was driving his mower on an already-mowed section of the Orange Park South subdivision off County Road 220 in Middleburg.  Witnesses say Akers told them he caught four of the seven ducklings and lowered the mower's cutting attachment to mutilate them. 

A 6-year-old boy was transported to Baptist Jacksonville after being hit with a boat propellor on a boat ramp in Jacksonville Beach.  It happened just after 6 o'clock yesterday in the 2500 block of 2nd avenue north.  The boy apparently fell off a moving boat.  His injuries do not appear to be life-threatening.

Family and friends of a missing Jacksonville woman took to the streets. Rosemary Day was last seen May 21st at her westside apartment.  Police have since found her car, but haven't found her. 

Jacksonville Police are investigating what looks like a child drowning, the third in the last few weeks.  6 year-old Jason Howell was found in a neighbor's pool yesterday on the westside.  The DCF is investigating.

A Tampa high school principal says he was shocked and scared after learning a former student has been arrested for plotting to blow up the school on the first day of classes.  Freedom High School Principal Chris Farkas says threats are common in large schools, but most aren't real. After hearing that police confiscated fuel, shrapnel and other materials from Jared Cano's home, the principal said ``fear set in.''  Farkas said Cano's plan may have been thwarted because the 17-year-old had been expelled from the school and would have been ``red flagged'' as soon as he stepped on campus.

Our Top National Story:  The President's jobs creation plan, to be released after Labor Day, will include tax cuts and help for millions of Americans who've been out of work for months.   Hear Jamie Dupree explain why Presidential vacations are always used for political gain.  Obama wants a new round of stimulus spending for roads and construction.  Hear Jamie Dupree explain why jobs and the debt are going to be a focus in the fall.  Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney calls word of the announcement, ``Too little, too late.'' 

Neal Boortz thinks the President is intentionally driving our economy off a cliff.  Hear his argument here. 

Special interest continue to flood the political campaigns in Washington.  Even though President Obama swore off special interest money to pay for his re-election, but House Democrats raked in more than 15 million dollars from special interests.  

We're getting younger in Florida.  New census figures show working-age adults made up Florida's fastest-growing age group in the past decade.  Working-age residents grew by more than a fifth.  We now have the fifth highest median age in America.

 
 
 

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