Jacksonville News

A Jacksonville Sheriff's Officer shot an armed robbery suspect outside a Northside Family Dollar store Saturday evening.

Orlando police confirmed that a man suspected in a deadly mass shooting in downtown Orlando has been taken into custody.

Police officer stands guard in downtown Orlando. A former employee of a business located in a downtown Orlando building where a deadly mass shooting took place today is suspected in the attack.

Jacksonville police are investigating the apparent drowning of a young child in an apartment complex retention pond.

Clay County investigators have arrested a Jacksonville man in the Oct. 18 fatal stabbings of two men outside a Fleming Island nightclub.

A year after a Jacksonville man was gunned down on a city street, police in Taylor County have arrested a man charged in the slaying.

Since the mother's death, the father of the oldest child obtained custody and took her to live with him in Orlando.

A woman was killed and three other people were injured when the roof of a burning Arlington apartment complex collapsed Tuesday afternoon.

A convicted killer from Dade County with an unmistakably bulky frame was arrested Monday when witnesses linked him to another slaying in Jacksonville.

Jacksonville was second-to-last in a ranking of the safety of the 40 largest cities in the country by Forbes magazine. Only Miami was more dangerous.

The rankings are based on a city’s levels of violent crime, workplace fatality rates, traffic death rates and natural disaster risk.

The Jacksonville metro area ranked 30th in natural disaster risk, and that was the best showing in any of the four categories. The area was 35th for workplace fatalities, 37th for violent crime and 39th for traffic death rates.

"While thousands of people partied all over the city this weekend law enforcement was in the crowds too looking for underage drinking."

"And from Thursday through game day officers and agents made more than 250 underage drinking arrests."

"The operation used more than 25 officers working at the Landing, RV city and the lots all around the stadium."

Four-year-old Dequan Peters keeps asking the same question: Where is mommy? But Dequan's family members are not sure what to tell him about his mother, Samira Watkins, 25, of Pensacola, who has been missing since last week.

A 20-year-old Atlantic Beach man is dead and the passenger on his moped was hospitalized in serious condition Monday night after they were struck by an eastbound vehicle on the south side of Atlantic Boulevard in Neptune Beach.

A steady stream of South Florida high school seniors walked into a college recruiting event last week at the Deerfield Beach Hilton, eager to get accepted into what many considered their first choice of schools.

A 17-year-old Jacksonville driver was killed and two passengers in his car were injured after hitting a wrecked car from behind early Sunday in a three car accident.

A 53-year-old pedestrian from Jacksonville was struck by a car and killed Saturday night.

If you're still scrambling to come up with food to take to a Halloween party or just want something to make your home feel more festive, here's an idea: Make cupcakes.

President Obama's remarks at NAS Jacksonville: Thank you, Secretary Mabus, for the introduction and for your service.

The Jaguars expect to blackout every home game this season. So for the first time ever, Jaguars owner Wayne Weaver acknowledged interest in playing one or two regular season games in Orlando.

"Wouldn't it make sense to play an out of market game to try to energize that fan base?" Weaver said last month.

But the idea faces some hurdles. Chief among them, an aging Citrus Bowl that isn't up to NFL standards, lacking box seats and premium suites.

The Citrus Bowl was built back in 1936. It only held 8,900 people. Over the decades it's gone through a series of expansions. One of the most recent, back in 1989, when the current seating capacity was reached at 70,000 people.

And now Mayor John Peyton is doing more than ever before, contractually, to make sure the RV's and the game stay in Jacksonville.

"We've had a lot of competition from other cities wanting this game so I think this contract with the arrangements we worked out is the best deal for the taxpayers," says Peyton.

Among other incentives, Peyton is now offering to give each university $50,000 to help with expenses and the city will pay for air travel for the Georgia players directly to and from Jacksonville.

"The city, then again, we get parking revenue, concessions revenue, so we do have money coming in, this is really a win- win," says Peyton.