A proposal to impose a new tax on Jacksonville restaurants and hotels to help the homeless population has hit a major roadblock. The City Council Rules Committee withdrew the bill today. Councilman Raul Arias, the owner of Mamba’s Cuban Café who was not on the special committee but attended theContinue Reading
An equipment failure at JEA’s Skinner Parkway lift station last week led to a “sanitary sewer overflow” into Pottsburg Creek. JEA said the estimated size of the spill was 509,000 gallons and happened after crews discovered a break in a submerged pipe. As of Monday, JEA said testing results “haveContinue Reading
A 78-year-old DeLeon Springs man was arrested on murder charges in the shooting death of his neighbor after warning him about being on his property, according to authorities. According to a report from WKGM, The Volusia Sheriff’s Office said Edward Stanley Druzolowski was arrested on a charge of second-degree murderContinue Reading
A Florida lawmaker wants to raise teacher pay to a minimum salary of $65,000. Rep. Tae Edmonds of West Palm Beach (D) is proposing the “Save Our Teachers Act” to raise teacher pay in Florida closer to the national average. “This is just a minor step in the right directionContinue Reading
There are almost daily developments in the Georgia election interference case against Former President Donald Trump and 18 other co-conspirators. Now, a Georgia court is trying to wade through 900 prospective jurors next month because two of the defendants — Trump lawyers Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro — chose toContinue Reading
The city of Jacksonville kicked off the Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations Monday morning at City Hall with a special exhibit. “Voces Hispanas” is an oral history project that aims to embrace the legacy of the Hispanic community in Northeast Florida. The exhibit, hosted by the First Coast Hispanic Chamber OfContinue Reading
The clean-up of a toxic acid spill from a rail car over the weekend continued Monday on the Southside. Crews were seen Monday transferring the hydrochloric acid from the leaking car to another tanker. The spill happened early Sunday morning at the Florida East Coast Railyard and the evection areaContinue Reading
Seasonal and SUN-sational! Warm and dry today, a little cooler Tuesday under mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies. Now: Warm with a light onshore breeze and passing clouds. Tonight: Mostly clear, cool with patchy fog inland. Tuesday: Like today but cooler. Almost Open Window Weather…almost. Areas of fog early thenContinue Reading
This was no “Country Bear Jamboree.” A bear in a tree at a Walt Disney World park prompted the temporary closure of several rides and attractions, according to News4JAX sister station WKMG. WKMG said the bear was spotted Monday in a tree near Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in Frontierland ofContinue Reading
The heat hit spectators at the Jaguars game so hard Sunday that over a hundred people were treated by Jacksonville Fire Rescue for heat related illness. Temperatures at the stadium on the WeatherSTEM thermometer reached 90 degrees for two hours. While this is just a couple degrees warmer than anContinue Reading
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