Florida News (Page 491)

Seasonal and SUN-sational!  Warm and dry today, a little cooler Tuesday under mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies. Now: Warm with a light onshore breeze and passing clouds. Tonight:  Mostly clear, cool with patchy fog inland. Tuesday:  Like today but cooler.  Almost Open Window Weather…almost.  Areas of fog early thenContinue Reading

This was no “Country Bear Jamboree.” A bear in a tree at a Walt Disney World park prompted the temporary closure of several rides and attractions, according to News4JAX sister station WKMG. WKMG said the bear was spotted Monday in a tree near Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in Frontierland ofContinue Reading

The heat hit spectators at the Jaguars game so hard Sunday that over a hundred people were treated by Jacksonville Fire Rescue for heat related illness. Temperatures at the stadium on the WeatherSTEM thermometer reached 90 degrees for two hours. While this is just a couple degrees warmer than anContinue Reading

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is set to hold a news conference Monday afternoon at Craig Municipal Airport in Jacksonville to discuss first responder bonuses. The news conference inside a hangar is set to begin around 2 p.m. Click the video player above to watch live.Continue Reading

A business owner’s vision of transforming a Southside property that was once considered a public nuisance into an upscale gallery has neighbors breathing a sigh of relief. On the corner of Southside and Beach Boulevards, a large building that was once the home of Mascara’s Gentleman’s Club is now theContinue Reading

County and Native American tribal leaders gathered Monday at Treaty Park in St. Augustine to mark 200 years since the signing of the Treaty of Moultrie Creek. The treaty, which was signed in 1823, resulted in the cession of a large swath of tribal lands in Florida and established theContinue Reading

Tenured faculty at the University of North Florida will now be required to undergo performance reviews every five years in response to a new state law. UNF’s Board of Trustees voted Monday to implement the changes, although the union representing hundreds of faculty members is vehemently opposed to them, sayingContinue Reading

A traffic stop for speeding led to a St. Johns County deputy and a U.S. Border Patrol Agent discovering kilos of fentanyl, meth and firearms, according to an arrest report. Cleon Miller, 31, of Ft. Lauderdale was already wanted by authorities in Broward County when he was charged with drugContinue Reading

Two weeks after the body of an 18-year-old woman was found in a field in Columbia County, investigators have identified a person of interest in her homicide. Coyoete Turner was found Sept. 3 in a field near SW Haltiwanger Road, which is not far from Ellisville. Investigators said Turner’s bodyContinue Reading