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St. Johns County is expected to feel the effects of Hurricane Idalia on Wednesday morning. The county is providing free sandbags starting at 8 a.m. Tuesday until weather permits at six locations throughout the county. The county said community members must provide their own transportation and shovels and will beContinue Reading

Duval County schools will be closed for three days and shelters will open at 12 p.m. Tuesday as Jacksonville prepares for the impact of Hurricane Idalia, Mayor Donna Deegan said. Deegan declared a local state of emergency and said residents of Northeast Florida should prepare for hurricane-strength conditions. All JacksonvilleContinue Reading

Jacksonville is under a local state of emergency as Hurricane Idalia approaches Florida’s Gulf Coast. The city is asking everyone to prepare now before the storm makes landfall. JEA’s CEO sent out a video Tuesday morning outlining the work crews are doing before the storm to be ready to helpContinue Reading

As Hurricane Idalia approaches, Nassau County issued an evacuation order, effective at 8 a.m. Tuesday, for power-dependent special needs individuals and those living in flood-prone structures, vulnerable structures and mobile homes. A shelter will open at 8 a.m. Tuesday at Wildlight Elementary, 550 Curiosity Ave, Yulee, FL 32097. This shelterContinue Reading

Idalia became a hurricane on Tuesday as it intensified on a path toward Florida’s Gulf Coast, with the National Hurricane Center warning of an increasing risk of life-threatening storm surge and dangerous hurricane-force winds in Florida in the next two days. At 5 a.m. the center of Hurricane Idalia wasContinue Reading

The family of a 52-year-old woman who was fatally shot during the hate-filled attack in Jacksonville has retained renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump. Angela Carr was one of the first victims to be killed by the shooter’s racially motivated attack at Dollar General on Saturday, where two other peopleContinue Reading

Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters is holding another news conference Monday to provide an update on the deadly shooting that killed three people. Press play above to watch livestream. Waters said the shooting at a Dollar General on Kings Road — that prompted heavy police and SWAT response in Northwest JacksonvilleContinue Reading

The racially motivated murders in Jacksonville’s New Town community created grief and additional strain in an urban neighborhood that was already experiencing challenges. There are no grocery stores in New Town, no restaurants, or access to shopping. Residents who live in this predominantly African American community say on top notContinue Reading

Minutes before the man described as a “white supremacist” shot and killed three Black Jacksonville residents inside a Dollar General store in New Town on Saturday, students at Edward Waters University first spotted the man on their campus putting on what they described as gloves and some type of tacticalContinue Reading