Girl, 14, shot at Northside Jacksonville apartment complex, police say and other top stories.

• Girl, 14, shot at Northside Jacksonville apartment complex, police say

  Authorities rushed a 14-year-old girl to a hospital in life-threatening condition Monday after gunfire disrupted a quiet afternoon at an apartment complex on Jacksonville’s Northside. The girl was taken to UF Health Jacksonville following the shooting at the Canopy Creek apartments at 11291 Harts Road and a person seen fleeing the area of the shooting was taken into custody for questioning, police said. Police said the shooting occurred about 1:20 p.m. and although investigators have not announ..

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• Career Track: Jacksonville business professionals

  Compiled by Julie Kanner. ■■■ Advanced Disposal promoted Tammy Wilson to senior vice president of sales and marketing and Mark Nighbor to vice president of marketing and communications. ■■■ David Altman, Jacksonville Jaguars manager of premium seating and suites, was named chair of the Man & Woman of the Year Gala by the North & Central Florida Chapter of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. ■■■ Governor Rick Scott announced the appointment of Dr. Yvette McCarter and the reappointment of Carl..

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• Wrongful death lawsuit filed claims plane en route to Jacksonville ...

  

  Wrongful death lawsuit filed claims plane en route to Jacksonville not airworthy Jacob Rodriguez, WTLV 6:55 PM. EST March 28, 2016 A copy of the first page of the complaint, filed in Duval County. JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—The family of a student pilot who died in a Georgia plane crash in March 2014 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the flight company and pilot-in-command at the time of the crash, a court filing in Jacksonville shows.Adam Christopher Griffis, a f..

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• Parent alleges A-rated Duval school 'pushed out' her son

  

  Public schools are not supposed to “push out” or “cherry pick” students to engineer high grades for themselves, even top-rated magnet schools like Jacksonville Beach Elementary. But a parent, who is a psychotherapist, said she pulled her second-grade son out of that award-winning school earlier this year because she felt he was being “pushed out” by some teachers and the school’s principal. By pushed out, she means the school allegedly made it difficult for her son to remain at the school. Nic..

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