Jacksonville News (Page 212)

Muggy and grey this afternoon with rain on the way.  Showers and swaths of rain will spread across SE GA tonight and then stretch across NE FL Wednesday.  A few rumbles of thunder will be possible as well as strong wind gusts as the front approaches tomorrow afternoon.  Rainfall totalsContinue Reading

Volunteers with the MaliVai Washington Youth Foundation are preparing to hand-deliver free groceries to more than 100 families’ doors during their annual Thanksgiving Drive Wednesday in Jacksonville. Keeping track and organizing several tons of groceries isn’t an easy task. But Terri Florio — the Executive Director of the MaliVai WashingtonContinue Reading

Picture this: You’re home sweet home, with your family you ADORE, and you get to babysit the newest addition- an 8-month-old girl named Sutton- oh, wait, I don’t have to picture it! I totally lived it this weekend! I am so very close to my family, they’re my best friends-Continue Reading

A corrections officer with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office was arrested Monday and accused of DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide following a crash on the Westside earlier this month. Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters on Tuesday said the employee, Cashius Edwards, has been with JSO for seven years. According to Waters, EdwardsContinue Reading

The body of a man was found in a retention pond Tuesday morning in Grand Park, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. JSO Sgt. Rudlaff said officers responded to the scene on Nancy Street at around 9:30 a.m. after someone spotted what appeared to be a body floating in theContinue Reading

In this episode of This Week in Jacksonville: Business Edition, we tackle the topic of Artificial Intelligence. Jacksonville Business Professionals hosted an event at a fall educational gathering and pointed to AI. “We’re just hearing a lot about AI, in you know, in our daily emails that we get throughContinue Reading

Taylor Hundley was around 10 years old when she first dreamed of being an investigator. It was 1998, and Hundley was living in Waycross, Georgia. There, in the small Ware County city where she spent most of her childhood, she vividly remembers watching the tragic and chilling story of MaddieContinue Reading

St. Johns County officials launched a new rental assistance program to help low-income renters catch up on past-due rent and utilities. According to the county, this program is possible thanks to the U.S. Department of Treasury which provided $2,150,000 of emergency rental assistance. Apart from helping residents cover past-due payments,Continue Reading

Families can now complete the 2023 Federal Impact Aid Survey, Duval County Public Schools announced. This survey – which takes five minutes to complete – can generate thousands of dollars in federal funding for the purchase of education-related materials, textbooks, and additional staff. All parents who have children enrolled inContinue Reading