Jacksonville News (Page 273)

More people who call Colonial Forest Apartments on the Westside home came forward on Tuesday and described unsafe living conditions at the complex. Officials from the fire department and the city’s neighborhood department were at the complex doing inspections and said they condemned 10 units at Colonial Forest. They’re workingContinue Reading

St. Johns County and the company contracted to work on beach restoration projects following Hurricanes Irma and Matthew agreed to a settlement on Tuesday after there was a dispute over costs. According to county documents, disputes arose over the 2021 contract between Continental Heavy Civil Corp. (CHC) and the countyContinue Reading

It’s too nice OUTSIDE to be INSIDE.  Sunny skies with a nice breeze will give way to clear skies and chilly temperatures tonight.  Temperatures will climb a couple of degrees, closer to our seasonal averages, Thursday and Friday.  Showers with isolated storms develop Friday afternoon, evening. Now:  Mostly sunny toContinue Reading

With a presidential primary election in Florida in a little more than five months, many eyes will be on the election process. In Duval County, much of that takes place on the far northside at the election center, but there is now a proposal to move that site downtown. Right nowContinue Reading

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office continues its search for a missing man who was last seen in November 2022. Austin Carlos Patchke, 23, was reported missing and last seen leaving a business on foot in the 14200 block of Old St. Augustine Road near Baptist South on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022.Continue Reading

The semi-annual king tides are coming up on the last weekend in October.  High tides will reach nearly seven feet above the average low water mark on Sunday, October 29. The extra pull of the moon’s gravitational force on our oceans comes from the moon lining up with the sunContinue Reading

A domestic altercation between a husband and wife early Tuesday morning ended with the man trying to run over his wife and adult son, who shot and critically injured his father, according to Baker County deputies. Investigators said that just after 12:45 a.m. Tuesday, deputies were called to a homeContinue Reading

One southbound lane of I-95 — near World Golf Village — in St. Johns County reopened after a shooting closed all lanes Tuesday morning, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office. News4JAX spotted rescue vehicles and half a dozen police cars near the 327-mile marker around 11:45 a.m. OneContinue Reading

A couple from Starke caught with mail stolen from five counties has been sentenced to federal prison for mail theft. Connor Lee Austin, 31, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison. That sentence will run consecutive to Austin’s current sentence of three years in Florida State Prison for grandContinue Reading