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Firefighters responded to a structure fire on 4700 Philips Highway around 4:30 a.m. Thursday. All lanes of Philips Highway, from Reba to University Boulevard West will be blocked for an hour. The picture shows the fire coming from a pile on the property of the recycling plant. No one wasContinue Reading

Spotty showers will be weak this morning and focus along the coastal areas. From lunchtime through the afternoon, showers will shift inland west of the I-95 corridor. The east breeze will keep highs near 90 with a low rain chance at 30%. The evening should be fairly dry except forContinue Reading

Mayor Donna Deegan will host her first “community conversation” event today. She hopes to cover everything from infrastructure and the economy to arts and entertainment and says it will be a chance for every voice in Jacksonville to be heard. There will be one meeting — all open to theContinue Reading

A father and his two sons from South Florida were rushed to area hospitals on Wednesday night after nearly drowning in a St. Augustine hotel pool. According to St. Augustine Police, exactly what happened at the Rodeway Inn on N. Ponce de Leon Boulevard is still under investigation, but noneContinue Reading

A disturbing video obtained by News4JAX shows a school paraprofessional in Columbia County sitting on a child with autism while he was on the playground. It happened in April at Summers Elementary School in Lake City, and the child was not injured in the incident. The child’s mother said theContinue Reading

Now:  Stunning sunsets as showers come to an end.  A dry night on tap with patchy fog for some inland areas.  Mild temperatures with calm conditions. Tonight:  A dry night with areas of patchy to dense fog.  Light to calm wind. Thursday:  Last day of the onshore flow.  Partly cloudyContinue Reading

An update to an I-TEAM investigation involving a Tampa-based pool company accused of not finishing contracted work in the Jacksonville area. The license holder of the company, Jordan Hidalgo, was due before the Construction Trades Qualifying Board in Duval County on Tuesday after he was accused of abandoning pool jobsContinue Reading

The legal case between Jacksonville-based Celebration Church and its former pastors will go before a judge Thursday afternoon. Stovall and Kerri Weems filed a lawsuit last year against the church they founded in 1998, alleging the church and its attorneys defamed them and caused irreparable damage to their reputation, followingContinue Reading

A 2019 Kia sedan that was stolen from a Westside home ended up on fire in a ditch next to a Northwest Jacksonville gas station on Wednesday following a suspect chase involving the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. The car owner said she woke up this morning and realized her car wasContinue Reading