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Posted: 6:25 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012

Taxpayers caught in another pension fight  

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The sun returns today and it's warmer. Temps are near 70 this afternoon with partly sunny skies. We'll stay mild through Thanksgiving weekend and turn mostly sunny.

Today's interview lineup:

At 7:40 hear Fox's Emily Wither from the Gaza border on the role Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit could play.  

At 8:23 hear Washington reporter Alison Burns on the role the United States will play in the escalating Mideast violence.

Our Top Local Story: Taxpayers are likely to see pension reform decided in court. The City of Jacksonville is notifying the Fraternal Order of Police of an impasse. The city's position is that the Police Fire Pension Fund is a non-employee organization and cannot be a negotiating body. The letter questions why the FOP accused the city of breaching bargaining agreements after not showing up to an afternoon negotiating session.

Incumbent Florida Congressman Allen West has conceded his House race to Democrat Patrick Murphy, ending a two weeks-long fight. West says he has many questions that remain unanswered, but he is taking no further action to contest the outcome of the election.

The Jaguars make a quarterback change, turning the keys over to Chad Henne. Coach Mike Mularkey says Henne's performance clearly made him the starter Sunday at home against the Titans.

His grandma told him to surrender. The man who led police in Jacksonville and Baker County on a manhunt Monday afternoon, finally surrenders to police. We're told cops tried to arrest the man at a bar in MacClenny during an undercover drug buy when he took off in a car, and then on foot. The guy ended up at his grandma's house and she told him to surrender.

New developments after a human skull is found in a Fleming Island field near the Kohl's department store. Detectives say they've found the rest of the human remains a few feet away in the wooded area. Investigators say they don't believe foul play is involved with this person's death, but they're still not sure who the person is or how they died. The skull was found by some children who were playing in the area over the weekend.

Our Top National Story: Wal-Mart is preparing for a crush of shoppers on Black Friday, despite the threat of protests by organized labor. The company has filed an unfair labor practice charge against the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, saying recent staged protests have disrupted business. The union complains of low wages, poor working conditions and inadequate health benefits.  Wal-Mart Spokesman David Tovar says employees who walk off the job will be held accountable.

Thousands of jobs may be saved and you may still get your Twinkies after all. Hostess is meeting for a private mediation today with one of the snack maker' s unions. If successful, it could prevent a liquidation.

We're reading through dozens of your comments to a judge's ruling that Hobby Lobby Stores must offer insurance coverage for the morning-after and week-after birth control pills. Hobby Lobby was fighting the mandate of Obamacare, saying it violates the owners' religious beliefs. But a judge says Hobby Lobby is not a religious organization. Churches and other religious organizations have been granted constitutional protection from the birth control provisions.

The fight to lengthen the runway at Craig Field is over, for now. Craig Air Center and Sky Harbor Corp. sued the city and asked a federal judge to change its plan which prevents a runway extension at Craig Field. Both companies gave up their appeal last week. The president of Sky Harbor tells the Times Union the city doesn't seem to understand the need. Neighborhood activists say longer runways means more noise, crash risk and damage to home values.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is about to dive into Middle East diplomacy in an effort to quell a bloody conflict. A deputy White House national security adviser says Clinton will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian officials and leaders in Egypt.

Breaking news in the war on terror. We've learned four Americans are behind bars, accused of plotting to kill fellow Americans overseas and in the U.S by joining al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan. The suspects are from Southern California, and the feds say they were planning to carry out plots in Afghanistan and Yemen. Two of the men converted to Islam in 2010. Another suspect had served in the Air Force twelve years ago.

Updating that horrific explosioni in Indianapolis that left two people dead and damaged around 80 homes. Police are now considering it a homicide. Police are looking for a white van that was seen in the subdivision the day of the blast, November 10th.

 
 
 

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