Jacksonville News (Page 121)

The Jacksonville Dollar General store where three people were killed in a racially motivated shooting will reopen Friday morning, representatives from the store confirmed to News4JAX. The store has had a “coming soon” sign on the wall and out front for several weeks now. A memorial also stands for theContinue Reading

River Region Human Services, which suddenly closed a long-standing residential substance abuse facility in December, has received close to half a million dollars from the city of Jacksonville over the past three months. But according to an email obtained by the I-TEAM, River Region employees were still waiting for lastContinue Reading

The Jacksonville Beach Police Department has located the 17-year-old girl reported missing Wednesday night. The police department said the teen was last seen by her father near America Avenue and Jacksonville Drive. The police department thanked the community for its assistance.Continue Reading

The second driver who pleaded guilty to charges of vehicular homicide, racing and reckless driving in a deadly high-speed crash was sentenced Wednesday. Ethan Rainey and Kiari Hill were arrested in July after a street racing crash that killed a woman and left others with injuries on Edgewood Avenue. RaineyContinue Reading

Our brief pause in the rain will end as the weather turns wet Friday afternoon and evening. Not much going on tonight without any showers until after midnight. Early morning light showers will lift northward under mostly skies on Friday. Showers and storms increase in the afternoon behind a warmContinue Reading

One person is dead and two others were arrested after a Coast Guard airborne crew used force to stop a non-compliant boat suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea on New Year’s Day, the Coast Guard said. The Coast Guard said it seized around 385 kilograms of cocaine withContinue Reading

A St. Johns County commissioner filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday against her fellow commissioners after they accused her of unlawfully campaigning during a public meeting. In November of last year, St. Johns County Commissioner Krista Joseph railed over things she said were going on in the county, including uncheckedContinue Reading

Gov. Brian Kemp used his State of the State speech to draw contrasts between his Republican philosophy and Democrats in an election year when the presidency and all of Georgia’s state House and Senate seats are on the ballot, but the Republican Kemp himself doesn’t face the voters. Combined withContinue Reading

The body of Annie Ernest was found in an open area of Springfield on Market Street in 1985. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office later determined Ernest had been murdered. Investigators back then had a good idea of who may have been responsible for her death, but the suspected killer slipped away.Continue Reading