Jacksonville News (Page 349)

Saying the insurance industry “dodged a bullet,” a reinsurance firm Thursday estimated that Hurricane Idalia caused $3 billion to $5 billion in insured losses. The firm, BMS, pointed to Idalia making landfall Wednesday in the Keaton Beach area of rural Taylor County before moving through other sparsely populated areas ofContinue Reading

Student loans will start accruing interest again Friday after a three-year pause. This is the first step toward resuming student loan payments next month. Borrowers will be charged the same interest rate they were paying before March 2020. You can see your balance and interest rates through your loan servicer.Continue Reading

People across Florida and Georgia who were in Idalia’s path are picking through the pieces of the rubble where their homes once stood. Jimmy Butler returned to find his Horseshoe Beach home had survived the storm, but many of his neighbors weren’t as lucky. “It’s the worst storm we’ve everContinue Reading

A child was struck by a car Friday morning on Lane Avenue in the Hyde Park area of Jacksonville’s Westside. The Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department confirmed a pedestrian, later identified as a pediatric patient, was hit around 7 a.m. Friday on Lane Avenue and Miss Muffet Lane. The childContinue Reading

A standoff with a person barricaded in a home in Nassau County’s Wildlight community ended peacefully around 5 a.m. Friday when the person was taken into custody, according to the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office. The standoff began Thursday night around 11 p.m. when the NCSO Special Response Team and membersContinue Reading

A summer cold front will bring a taste of fall after a month of 90 degree heat. Brief rain this morning is pushing across the area within steamy humid and mostly cloudy conditions. Rain will shift inland with some heavy downpours this afternoon and evening. A 50% chance of rainContinue Reading

More than 14 million children and teenagers in the U.S. are living with obesity – it’s a chronic disease associated with a lifetime of health risks. That’s why for the first time ever, The American Academy of Pediatrics, or AAP, has released groundbreaking guidelines on treating children battling obesity. AtContinue Reading

The wait is over. It will have been 239 days since the Kansas City Chiefs beat the Jaguars in their run to a Super Bowl victory. The Jaguars get the chance to avenge that loss and a News4JAX Insider will get the chance to be there to defend the Bank.Continue Reading

The images from Florida’s Big Bend region are devastating. Homes flattened. Some properties have just a slab with no trace of the house. Other residents had several feet of water in their homes, roofs ripped off, and windows broken. These are just some of the images we showed you overContinue Reading