Florida News (Page 606)

The price of food, gas, and houses keeps going up — even if it appears to be slowing. The latest report from the Consumer Price Index says consumer prices overall increased 3% from a year earlier. Although it increased, it is down from 4% in May, according to the LaborContinue Reading

The Duval County school district is inching closer to hiring a new superintendent to replace Dr. Diana Greene, who recently retired early amid turmoil in the district. School Board members are meeting Wednesday to discuss the next steps in hiring a new superintendent. WATCH LIVE: News4Jax is streaming the meeting.Continue Reading

UPS workers could go on strike for the first time since 1997 if they can’t reach a new contract deal by the end of the month. With an Aug. 1 deadline approaching, 340,000 employees nationwide are preparing to picket when the five-year contract between the nation’s largest trucking company andContinue Reading

The entire Town of Baldwin was without water Tuesday for about seven hours as crews worked to repair a break on the town’s main water line at the northwest intersection of Oliver and Main streets. The outage, which affect 1,400 residents and businesses, began at 1 p.m. and workers atContinue Reading

The heat and humidity are making for a HOT day today, and will provide potentially dangerous “Feels Like” temperatures Thursday and Friday. The scattered showers and isolated storms we see today will be from the afternoon sea breeze. Tonight: A few showers with storms. Partly cloudy. Thursday: Dangerously hot andContinue Reading

Hundreds of thousands of deliveries will be made this week and next following Amazon Prime Day, which means porch pirates will be on the prowl trying to pilfer your packages. Sorry, we got a little carried away there. But in all seriousness, an estimated 1.7 million packages are lost orContinue Reading

Shock and outrage was the reaction from neighbors in the Berkshire subdivision of Orange Park on Tuesday after learning someone living nearby was a fugitive from Texas. Federal marshals captured Vegas Brown, 36, in Orange Park about 1,300 miles from where he was designated a wanted fugitive who was presumedContinue Reading

The heat and humidity will make for a hot Hump Day and potentially dangerous “Feels Like” temperatures Thursday and Friday.  The afternoon sea breeze will be the delivery system for our scattered showers and isolated storms tomorrow. Tonight:  A few showers with storms along our southern counties will continue toContinue Reading

A former church volunteer was arrested and charged with having sex with an underage boy in Jacksonville. The arrest report said the victim reported meeting Rashad Williams, 34, on Grindr in February. The victim said Williams messaged him and the two agreed to have sex at Williams’ home that night.Continue Reading