Jacksonville News Archives

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.

Just moments after police responded to a fatal shooting of a man in the 1100 block of West 22nd Street shortly before 6 p.m. Wednesday, they were called to another part of town for a separate shooting in the 3100 block of Second Street Circle.

A suspect has been charged after a retirement-age Jacksonville woman was repeatedly raped one night at her home in the Riverside-Avondale area.

A convicted Jacksonville sex offender is facing new charges that he fathered a child with a 15-year-old girl.

A teenager was shot and killed this week, and police need your help finding who did it.

Jackson's This Is It" premiered to high praise from fans who applauded at each number as though they were at a concert and marveled as the singer stepped nimbly through his moonwalk and other signature moves.

A robbery victim was transported to Shands Jacksonville this morning after his assailant shot him on the 10500 block of Monaco Drive.

US President Barack Obama speaks about the election in Afghanistan before departing the White House on August 21, 2009 in Washington, DC.

Police are searching for two men who stole $18,000 in cash from a Jacksonville junkyard business after threatening an employee with a gun Saturday morning.

Clay County Public Information Officer Mary Justino updated the public on the search for answers dealing with Somer Thompson's death.

Dozens of parents, their young children in tow, have filed past the mountainous makeshift memorial that has sprouted up in memory of a 7-year-old girl found slain in a landfill some 50 miles from her suburban neighborhood.

Police have interviewed all known sex offenders living close to the area where Somer Thompson vanished Monday and do not suspect them in the 7-year-old's murder.

Submitted by Jeremy Cox on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 11:41. Several Jacksonville-area Walgreens locations are offering swine flu vaccinations to people who fall into one of the federal government's priority groups.

A 19-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday on murder charges in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old boy at the Gregory Cove Apartments on Oct.

A 37-year-old man was arrested Thursday after police said he left a live newborn girl in a trash can and called 911.

A Jacksonville student sought in an armed robbery that targeted a poker player but left the robbers essentially empty-handed turned himself into Florida authorities Thursday.

Sheriffa s Office identified a man killed Monday morning as 32-year-old Reginald Grant.

On tentative news that the body of Orange Park, Florida resident, Somer ReneeThompson, 7 , was discovered yesterday in a landfill, many residing in nearby Jacksonville, Florida recall the brief life and brutal 1998 death of Madlyn Rae Clifton, 8 , Yesterday's announcement--that a child's body found in a landfill had been tentatively identified as ...

Three people have been arrested for the murder of a man at a Southside apartment complex earlier this month.

In the second-largest drug confiscation in the city's history, police have seized about $500,000 worth of marijuana from an empty business in the 500 block of Third Street South.

BRUCE LIPSKY/Times-Union file Dan King, general manager of Hyatt Regency, also serves as the president of the North Florida Hotel and Lodging Association.

Jacksonville police are trying to find out who left a baby in a trash can at a church on the Southside Monday night.

A Jacksonville teenager was injured Tuesday when her vehicle and a school bus collided head-on on a rural Morgan County road.

Police say they have the man who shot and killed another man near Interstate 95 and Martin Luther King Drive Thursday night.

A complex project to clean up lead-filled incinerator ash affecting thousands of Jacksonville homes has been rescheduled to start in January.

Submitted by Liz VanHooser on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 17:43. The owners of Village Bread Cafe took a gamble this spring when they opened a restaurant in an unlikely location, at 5215 Philips Highway, just north of University Boulevard.

An Orange Park woman who was shot by police outside a Jacksonville bar last year was acquitted of assault and leaving the scene charges late Thursday.

A woman attacked and sexually battered in the Five Points area of Riverside gave police a description of her attackers.

One man is dead following a shooting Thursday night in the Brentwood area of Jacksonville, police said.

Anyone with information about the Jacksonville rape or homicide can contact the Sheriff's Office at 630-0500 or First Coast Crime Stoppers at 845-8477 to remain anonymous and be eligible for rewards.

A 24-year-old South Florida murder suspect was picked up at a Jacksonville apartment complex by the U.S. Marshals Service Oct.

The cost of Medicare is a good place to begin. At its start, in 1966, Medicare cost $3 billion. The House Ways and Means Committee estimated that Medicare would cost only about $ 12 billion by 1990 (a figure that included an allowance for inflation). This was a supposedly "conservative" estimate. But in 1990 Medicare actually cost $107 billion.

This is a mere bagatelle compared with "conservative" projections for the next generation. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that Medicare will cost $223 billion by 1997. Constance Homer, deputy secretary of Health and Human Services, warns that "by the year 2003, at the current rates, we will be spending more on Medicare than we do on Social Security."

Anticipating a 3.5-percent annual inflation rate, government actuaries predicted that the cost of a day’s hospital stay by 1985 would be $155 and that the hospital insurance portion of Medicare would cost $9 billion by 1990. The actual average cost of a hospital day by 1985 was over $600; instead of $9 billion, the hospital-insurance program cost $63 billion in 1990.

A month after a northside woman went missing, Jacksonville Police are now saying she may be the victim of foul play.

Three people were displaced after a house fire late Tuesday in Springfield. The fire happened near the corner of North Liberty Street and East 17th Street.

About 100 people who worked at Premier Kia on Atlantic Boulevard have been out of work since Friday, when a judge ordered the Jacksonville auto dealership be shuttered due to financial issues.

Even with Jacksonville bed tax move, convention center talk not dead Oct. 12--Jacksonville may take money that had been going to the convention center to help cover stadium maintenance costs, but city leaders say that doesn't take discussion of a new convention facility off the table.

A firefighter suffered a minor injury when Jacksonville Fire and Rescue responded to an overnight house fire.

JON M. FLETCHER/The Times-Union Without a bench or shelter at a bus stop on Jefferson Street, Kise Jones, 47, waits for his bus Sunday to the Southside on a wooden spool left at the stop in Downtown Jacksonville.

In 1987 the installation of new billboards and other commercial signs was banned in Jacksonville. This ban also mandated the incremental removal of existing signs and billboards.

Now the Jacksonville Transportation Authority is looking for a way around it.

The JTA has asked the council to amend an existing ordinance so that advertising would be allowed on bus shelters within the city. The council will take up the issue at its meeting on Tuesday.

Ten of the 19 City Council members have co-sponsored the legislation, all but guaranteeing the bill will pass unless one of the co-sponsors changes his or her mind.

Opponents say the amendment could allow sign companies to sue the city and put the entire law in legal jeopardy.

The JTA wants a company to build and maintain bus shelters in exchange for the right to sell advertising. Executive Director Michael Blaylock said that with advertising, the JTA could construct about 80 shelters a year, instead of the 20 or so a year being built now. It costs $4,000 to $12,000 to construct a shelter and about $1,200 a year to maintain one, but the new shelters might by more ornate and cost more than the existing shelters, JTA spokesman Mike Miller said.

A 53-year-old pedestrian was killed on Friday night after his was hit by a motorist on 103rd Street in Jacksonville.

By KELLY GOOCH Staff Writer JACKSONVILLE -- The Retail Association of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce is encouraging residents to donate candy for the 7th annual Street Sweets event.

Jacksonville police said he was just doing his job, but he ended up dead. Officers with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office told Channel 4's Vickie Pierre a maintenance worker was cleaning a building on Bonneval Road around noon today.

The Learning Express toy store in Jacksonville has announced a huge 20% off sale on everything in the store that has not already been marked on sale! New toys have arrived and Dora is even going to be at the store from 11-2pm on Saturday, October 10th! The Learning Express has just gotten in new toys for the sale.

The Spanish moss-draped live oaks that have shaded the Jacksonville University campus for decades are living measuring sticks for Walker Blanton.

Louise Freshman Brown created this piece of artwork on exhibit at the Women's Center of Jacksonville.

What's in a sign law? In 1987, the Jacksonville City Council passed a sign ordinance to limit the number of signs in the city.

Revisions to Duval County's school policy, a new agreement with Jacksonville police and a proposed new program are aiming to decrease the number of students arrested for petty crimes at school.

The spirit of today's handshake - the birth of a relationship meant to boost tourism, education and business between Puerto Rico and Jacksonville - comes from a woman who worked six years arranging the meeting she'll be unable to witness.

When a thief tore through Shannon Mercer's home and made off with jewelry and electronics, the thief did not know a laptop was actually tracking its every move.

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DON BURK/The Times-Union Robert Moore performs with an old bandmate, saxophonist Ray Love , at The Grape at St.

Police wearing HAZMAT suits found a woman dead inside her home after family members reported her missing.

A man wanted for holding up two Nassau County grocery stores last Friday morning was arrested Wednesday afternoon at a home in northwest Jacksonville.

The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department will have its annual Fallen Firefighters' Memorial Service at 10 a.m. Thursday.

A four-hour SWAT standoff ended under peaceful conditions Tuesday afternoon after a man armed with a shotgun was taken down by a police K-9 outside his Westside home.

Hubbard House, in partnership with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office and other local law enforcement agencies and domestic violence shelters, will hold a press conference announcing October as Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

Gwen Yates, Jacksonville City Council member for District 8, was joined by Builders Care Executive Director Bill Wilson to announce an electric fan donation program for senior citizens in Duval County.

A one-vehicle motorcycle accident late Friday night resulted in the driver's death, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Traffic Homicide Unit.

Victim: Robert C. Nixon White Male 09/16/1945 14711 Cape Drive On October 2nd, 2009 at 11:29 pm, patrol officers responded to a traffic crash in the 14000 block of Yellow Bluff Road.

City Council Director/Council Secretary Cheryl L. Brown announced today that the next meeting of three Jacksonville City Council committees have been changed.

Strictly by the numbers, Florida's mandatory child car seat law is working. Auto accident deaths among children under 5 dropped by nearly a third from 2007 to 2008.

A Jacksonville man is brutally beaten and the attack happened in front of his two-year-old daughter.

The mayor of Jacksonville's sister city paid the First Coast a visit today. Mayor Jorge Santini of San Juan, Puerto Rico, joined Mayor John Peyton to sign an official sister cities agreement between San Juan and Jacksonville.

The election is still more than a year away, but two Jacksonville leaders are quickly trying to garner support for a 2011 mayoral bid.

St. Johns County Sheriff's Office This eastern diamondback rattlesnake was found at the Tuscany Village townhomes near the S.R.16 and I-95 interchange last Sunday.

A 26-year-old man who Jacksonville police said viciously beat another man during a domestic squabble is facing a manslaughter charge after the victim died from his injuries Saturday.

A man was arrested early Sunday on charges of carrying a concealed gun, loitering and resisting without violence after an officer found a gun wrapped in a towel in an apartment complex at 4295 Sunbeam Road, police said.

Mayor John Peyton sat alongside Mayor Jorge Santini of San Juan, Puerto Rico, as they both signed a sister city agreement today.

An attempted truck theft ended with one suspect shot when the theft victim and a friend opened fire early this morning in a Murray Hill neighborhood.

Compact fluorescent lightbulbs - the environmental sweethearts that use a third of the energy and last about 10 times longer than regular incandescent bulbs - have one slight drawback.

The Los Angeles NFL stadium talk has already sparked ripple effects in Jacksonville, where city council president Richard Clark is proposing to add $5 million a year to what the city spends on maintaining and upgrading Municipal Stadium for the Jaguars , who are rumored to be considering leaving town.

Thursday afternoon, a new road will open on Jacksonville's westside, making things easier for drivers.

Following the widely attended March 6th meeting held to discuss alternate redevelopment plans for downtown, City Council Member Suzanne Jenkins, today announced the formation of a "Downtown Action Plan Committee" The committee, which will be comprised of downtown's business, government and community leaders, will meet every Monday beginning March ...

Jacksonville City Council President Michael Corrigan rode on patrol with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office yesterday evening as the second in his series of "work experiences" as announced in his speech on the night of his installation as President.