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Five swimmers are recovering from shark bites in New York, and new video of a huge hammerhead shark near Pensacola beach has gone viral. The uptick of shark encounters have a lot of swimmers wondering what’s really in the water. The viral video, of what shark experts say is aContinue Reading

A St. Johns County woman is facing multiple fraud charges for exploiting an elderly man. The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office arrested Shuronda Lanae Thomas last week. Thomas is accused of taking $70,000 from an 85-year-old St. John’s County man while working as his caregiver. The elderly man’s family toldContinue Reading

More than 500 people were rescued at Florida beaches over the 4th of July weekend, and Ocean Rescue wants you to understand the dangers of the water. The summer brings thousands of people out to the beach, but do swimmers really know what they are getting into when they getContinue Reading

A 13-year veteran with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office was arrested in Clay County on Monday after he was accused of throwing an unopened beer can at a woman’s face. The impact from the strike cut the woman’s lip, according to an arrest report obtained by News4JAX on Wednesday. The woman,Continue Reading

Mayor Donna Deegan was sworn in as the first woman mayor in Jacksonville on July 1, 2023. The ceremony brought up emotional moments in her life, tributes to her family and included an optimistic look ahead. Deegan spoke about her three-time battle with breast cancer. She spoke about her familyContinue Reading

It was a hot Independence Day across Southeast Georgia and Northeast Florida, but it was also the warmest day in recorded history on Earth. The estimated global temperature climbed to 62.9° Fahrenheit, the warmest temp ever recorded. So what does this mean? And could we get even warmer? How toContinue Reading

Hundreds of people turned out on a Saturday night to celebrate the historic inauguration of the first elected woman as Jacksonville mayor. They filled the River Club of Jacksonville for the Inaugural Ball, dressed to the nines and ready to party. Mayor Deegan took to the stage at 8:20 p.m.Continue Reading

The next generation of hurricane forecast modeling began tracking hurricanes for the first time this June. The Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System, or HAFS, provides high-resolution track and intensity forecasts, similar to the guidance long provided by specialized hurricane models called HMON and HWRF. HAFS has already shown significant improvementsContinue Reading

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office teamed up with the Drug Enforcement Administration for pair of operations targeting drug traffickers in the city and netted a slew of guns and drugs and two arrests, Sheriff T.K. Waters announced Wednesday. In Operation Tulsa, investigators seized three handguns, two rifles, one kilo of fentanyl,Continue Reading