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Kimberly Daniels, a Democrat and member of the Florida House of Representatives from Jacksonville, is set to hold a news conference Thursday at noon to address her role on the African American Task Force. “I have received communications from various media and other outlets about my position on the AfricanContinue Reading

The heat this summer has been intense without any significant breaks. Hotter-than-average conditions have dominated. For the past 40 days, only two have been cooler than normal. Jacksonville reached 98° for 8 days in July. This steak of heat catapulted the city to its hottest 30 days on record toContinue Reading

It didn’t take long for former Duval County Superintendent Dr. Diana Greene to find a new job after officially stepping down on Monday. According to a news release on Tuesday, Greene is set to become the CEO of Children’s Literacy Initiative (CLI), a national early literacy nonprofit that “seeks toContinue Reading

It’s that time of year! School bells across Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia will start ringing once again next week and students will be back in class. We know parents love to show off their little ones on the first day back and we’ve made it easy to share. 📸Continue Reading

More Jaguars fans headed inside the Miller Electric Center on Thursday for the second open practice of Training Camp. For many, it was their first look inside the $120 million training facility. But for die-hard fan David Mendenhall, it was the second of many to come over the next twoContinue Reading

A man was killed Wednesday night in a crash with a semi-truck on I-95 Northbound, near mile marker 282, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The FHP report said the 43-year-old man from Palm Coast was traveling northbound around 10:25 p.m. on I-95 in the right lane when it failed toContinue Reading

Roughly 57,000 Florida residents paying student loans for decades are on track to walk away from those loans, provided they have been paying on time for 20 or 25 years, according to the Department of Education. The discharges were announced via email on Friday, July 14, to an estimated 800,000Continue Reading

According to data from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, in the first 206 days of the year, 100 people were killed in traffic crashes in Jacksonville — that’s about one every other day in Duval County alone. The 100th traffic homicide was around 9 a.m. Wednesday on Emerson Street when aContinue Reading

Today, the onshore wind continues! A southeast breeze will help the beaches stay a bit cooler than it will be inland. A few pop up showers throughout the day will occur, alongside partly cloudy skies during the afternoon with afternoon showers, storms possible. Morning lows in the low 70s inland,Continue Reading