Jacksonville News

Jacksonville City Council members' feud with General Counsel Cindy Laquidara will apparently include a fight over whether she holds the job legally.

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office is kicking off a new round on gun buy-backs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday June 29, at the Maceo Elks Lodge No.

Elite Parking Services of America Inc. is renovating its current Downtown Jacksonville office to make room for 20 additional employees.

David Gonzalez recently purchased Liberty Plaza and Centurion Plaza. His brokerage team consists of Joe Scavetto and Alex Evans .

The Jacksonville Port Authority moved closer to construction of an intermodal container transfer facility at its Dames Point Marine Terminal by qualifying 13 vendors to design and build the facility.

One person was killed in a wrong-way collision with a minor league baseball team bus on Interstate 295 in Jacksonville Tuesday.

A bus carrying a Minnesota Twins minor league team was struck head-on by a wrong-way driver on an interstate near Jacksonville, Florida early Tuesday.

The JSO bomb squad is on the scene of a meth lab investigation in Arlington. One building of Kings Inn on Arlington Expressway was evacuated Tuesday morning.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The northbound lanes of I-295 at Pritchard Road are shut down due to a fatal crash.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A suspected purse snatcher is in jail, thanks to one feisty woman and a sharp-eyed teenager According to police, a man tried to steal a 64-year-old woman's purse as she walked to her car at Rowe's Supermarket on Blanding Boulevard.

FedEx Ground Shipping Service has confirmed that it is planning to build a 300,000-square-foot distribution center at Cecil Commerce Center, to be completed in 2015.

The Jacksonville Women Lawyers Association hosted its annual judicial reception June 6 at The River Club and announced its "Woman Lawyer of the Year" and incoming board of directors.

Richard D. Zasada, a Palm Coast and Jacksonville attorney who practices divorce and disability law, has launched a new website at www.zasadalaw.com .

The Coast Guard suspended the search Sunday for a Jacksonville resident and second man in the Gulf of Mexico after two others rescued from a capsized boat said their companions disappeared into the water.

A 20-year-old Longwood man has been charged with DUI manslaughter in the death of a passenger and serious injury of two others in Jacksonville accident on New Years Day.

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office says a man on a bike was killed Sunday during a crash on Townsend Boulevard and Merrill Road.

ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. -- One person is recovering in the hospital after an animal, possibly a shark, bit a surfer at Atlantic Beach Saturday.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A Jacksonville sheriff's officer was involved in a three-car crash while responding to a call near the intersection of Beaver Street and Lane Avenue on the Westside.

ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. -- One person is recovering in the hospital after an animal, possibly a shark, bit a surfer at Atlantic Beach Saturday.

Three people were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries Saturday afternoon as the result of an accident in which a Jacksonville policeman was involved, police said.