Jacksonville News (Page 255)

JASMYN, Northeast Florida’s only LGBTQIA+ youth center, will host its annual Coming Out Day Breakfast on Tuesday, Oct. 24. The event will celebrate diversity in our Northeast Florida workforce and honor individual leaders, employee resource groups, corporations and non-profit partners, while focusing support for our LGBTQIA+ teens and young adults.Continue Reading

A woman in her late 30s was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds Monday morning after she was shot while waiting for an Uber in Northwest Jacksonville, police said. According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, officers were called around 2:30 a.m. to Palmdale Street in the Lake ForestContinue Reading

Monday marks the start of Florida-Georgia week with the Florida Gators and Georgia Bulldogs facing off Saturday at EverBank Stadium. This is Jacksonville’s 91st year hosting the rivalry game, which is one of the greatest traditions in college football. Georgia won last year, and this year’s matchup is a bitContinue Reading

Good Monday Morning! It’s a gorgeous, and sunny week ahead! We have sunshine in the forecast for 7 of the next 7 days. Anything you need to get done outside, this is the week to do it! The Florida Georgia game takes place Saturday at 3:30, and you have fantasticContinue Reading

A man crashed and flipped his car into the oncoming lanes after being fatally shot early Monday morning on Southside Boulevard at Deerwood Park Boulevard, police said. Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Mark Lessard said police were called to the area just after 1 a.m. because of reports of both aContinue Reading

Sunday evening temperatures will drop into the upper 50s to low 60s, with light winds and no rain. Your workweek will bring the same seasonal weather. Monday temperatures begin in the low 60s with light winds from the northeast and partly to mostly cloudy skies. A High Rip Current RiskContinue Reading

The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating a crash involving two cars that left at least one person dead on State Road 19 and Crill Avenue in Palatka Sunday evening. All lanes are blocked at this time, according to FHP. This is a developing story. Come back for more updates.Continue Reading

WWE star Grayson Waller is “apologizing” for calling music star Taylor Swift a “6″. But his apology isn’t legitimate and in classic wrestling “heel” fashion he used as a mechanism to insult her fans. The controversy started when he appeared on WWE’s The Bump podcast and was asked about anContinue Reading

The teen survivor of an attempted murder-suicide stabbing attack outside a Ponte Vedra restaurant in July delivered the first pitch at the UNF softball game Sunday afternoon to raise awareness for domestic violence. Madison Schemitz, who survived the brutal stabbing outside Mr. Chubby’s by who police said was her boyfriendContinue Reading