Mayor Donna Deegan kicked off the first “River City Readers” in Downtown Jacksonville on Saturday. It’s a part of a year-long citywide challenge to improve literacy rates among school-aged children. RELATED: Mayor Deegan introduces citywide push to get kids reading, address literacy issues | Mayor Deegan wants Jacksonville kids toContinue Reading
Thousands of people laced up their sneakers to run in the 15th annual Wolfson Children’s Challenge on Saturday in St. Augustine. Two mothers said their kids’ lives were changed at Wolfson Children’s Hospital. RELATED: Thank You! Over $75K raised during Wolfson Children’s Challenge Telethon at WJXT The challenge raises moneyContinue Reading
Dense Fog advisory issued through 10 AM Saturday. Visibilities this morning are down to a mile or less due to the dense fog region wide. The fog lingers through the late morning and into the early afternoon for coastal areas. The rest of today marks the warmest day of theContinue Reading
The four employees who told News4JAX they were suing the owner of a company they said has not paid them after three weeks of work have followed through with their word. The employees thought they were hired for a match-made-in-heaven job opportunity. They were told they would work at aContinue Reading
A business in the Biltmore neighborhood was burglarized Tuesday night. Now, the owner is out of tens of thousands of dollars. Omid, the owner of VIP Motors Jax, a business that deals with selling vehicles and metals sheets for roofs, shared video of the suspect entering his building. The manContinue Reading
Un joven de 18 años fue una de dos víctimas de un accidente de tránsito mortal que ocurrió el jueves en la mañana en el condado de Bradford, su familia compartió esta información con News4JAX. Carlos Henrriquez Contreras era padre de una niña de 2 meses y vivía en JacksonvilleContinue Reading
People in St. Augustine and St. Johns County will say goodbye to a trailblazer in their community this weekend. Dr. Otis A. Mason is remembered as an educator who served his country and Northeast Florida. He died earlier this month at the age of 95. He was the first AfricanContinue Reading
An 18-year-old father was one of the victims in a double fatal crash Thursday morning in Bradford County. Carlos Henrriquez Contreras left behind a 2-month-old daughter and an 18-year-old girlfriend, his family said. The driver of the pickup truck that slammed into a log truck on US 301, a 23-year-oldContinue Reading
BLACK PRESS – NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent- By Stacy M. Brown @StacyBrownMedia – Federal prosecutors announced on Friday, Jan. 12, their intention to pursue the death penalty for Payton Gendron, a 20-year-old white man responsible for a racist rampage that claimed the lives of 10 Black shoppers at aContinue Reading
Law enforcement officials are working on two separate Friday afternoon crashes with injuries impacting traffic along Interstate 295 on Jacksonville’s Westside and Southside. The first crash involved a semi-truck and a motorcyclist. It happened on Interstate 295 near Beach Boulevard just before 2:30 p.m. According to Jacksonville Fire and Rescue,Continue Reading
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