Jacksonville News (Page 399)

A cyber watchdog company wants to keep kids safe from online predators, especially if kids are using an app called Wizz. Ricardo Servin, 20, was arrested and accused of portraying himself on the app as a 14-year-old kid before allegedly raping a 13-year-old Clay County girl he met through theContinue Reading

Now:  Thunderstorms are weakening in SE GA, light rain ends over NE FL. Tonight:  Light rain with storms will end around 10 p.m.  Patchy to areas of dense fog and wet roads overnight. Tuesday:  The onshore flow returns.  Partly cloudy skies with scattered afternoon showers and storms, 40-60 percent.  PatchyContinue Reading

A 14-year-old Volusia County girl was reported missing Monday after an Amber Alert was issued for her disappearance. Barbora Zdanska was last seen in the 100th block of Boynton Boulevard in Daytona Beach. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement said the teen has been missing since Saturday. She was lastContinue Reading

July 2023 was the warmest month on record set at the Jacksonville Airport. The average temperature for the month was 84.7 degrees. This ranked as not only the warmest July on record, but also the warmest month since record keeping began in 1956. This breaks the previous record of 84.4Continue Reading

Whitney Davis leased her vehicle just days before the Memphis-based American Car Care Center closed shop at multiple locations across the country, including three in Jacksonville, in February. Five months later, she is still trying to get permanent license plates for her Chevrolet SUV from Westlake Portfolio Management, which boughtContinue Reading

A Jacksonville nonprofit and a developer plan to buy and renovate two troubled apartment complexes on the Eastside the I-TEAM first exposed back in 2021 for unsanitary and unsafe conditions. It’s a deal that’s years in the making. The Eastside Terrace and Eastside Gardens Apartments are privately owned but manyContinue Reading

There have been 124 domestic violence arrests in the last 12 days, and 26 of those arrests happened over the weekend, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office inmate page. And there could be a correlation between the large number of cases and the recent heat wave, according to Jacksonville’s ChiefContinue Reading

St. Johns County residents could be getting help after years of dealing with flooding caused by storms. The county is hosting homeowner outreach meetings to let locals know about potential grant money to help prevent or fix damage to their homes. Homeowners in the county have delt with flooding forContinue Reading

The Nassau County Sheriff’s Office posted on social media video of a 3-year-old who nearly drowned after falling into a swimming pool. They also posted a warning about the video, that it may be hard to watch. WATCH VIDEO: Nassau County 3-year-old nearly drowns Sheriff Bill Leeper narrates the videoContinue Reading