Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Sources: Suspect dead after SWAT standoff at Jacksonville home ... and other top stories.

  • Sources: Suspect dead after SWAT standoff at Jacksonville home ...

    Sources: Suspect dead after SWAT standoff at Jacksonville home ...
    by: Brittney Donovan, Danae Leake, Action News Jax Updated: Mar 18, 2017 - 9:18 AM   (UPDATE: 1:23 p.m.): The standoff ended after investigators found the suspect dead in the house, multiple sources said. (UPDATE: 1:10 p.m.): Action News Jax's Deanna Bettineschi reports that SWAT are taking off gear.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Updated story: A SWAT team surrounded a Jacksonville home after a bank several miles away was robbe..
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  • Vice President Mike Pence to visit Jacksonville Saturday, joined by ...

    Vice President Mike Pence to visit Jacksonville Saturday, joined by ...
    VP Mike Pence to discuss the American Health Care Act in Jax on Saturday First Coast News , WTLV 8:38 AM. EDT March 18, 2017 U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a swearing-in ceremony in the Vice President's ceremonial office at Eisenhower Executive Office Building March 2, 2017 in Washington, DC.(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to visit Jacksonville Saturday to discuss the American Health Care..
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  • Jacksonville man charged with soliciting child for sex, deputies say

    Jacksonville man charged with soliciting child for sex, deputies say
    ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. - A Jacksonville man was arrested Friday on three felony charges after he started talking earlier this month to an undercover detective who he thought was a child, the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office said. Kameron Brennen Ruhe, 24, is charged with transmitting harmful materials to a minor, unlawful use of a two-way communication device and use of a computer to seduce, solicit, lure or entice a child or person believed to be a child to commit an unlawful sexual act with ..
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  • Vice President Pence meeting Saturday with Jacksonville business ...

    Vice President Pence meeting Saturday with Jacksonville business ...
    Vice President Mike Pence and Gov. Rick Scott will meet with Jacksonville business operators Saturday as part of a listening tour about issues affecting jobs and the economy. Pence will be at Mac Papers Envelope Converters at 8370 Philips Highway for an invitation-only discussion of topics including the American Health Care Act, said Taylor Playforth, part of a team coordinating preparations for the visit. U.S. Rep. John Rutherford, R-Fla., will also be at the meeting, said Kelly Simpson, th..
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  • Jacksonville man accused of beating ex-wife, then setting house on ...

    Jacksonville man accused of beating ex-wife, then setting house on ...
    by: Jenna Bourne, Action News Jax Updated: Mar 17, 2017 - 7:24 PM The man accused of beating his ex-wife and then setting their house on fire in Jacksonville’s Springfield neighborhood is still in jail for now. A judge set 51-year-old Eugene Howard’s bond at $825,000 on Friday. In court, his ex-wife’s sister couldn’t hold back her tears and kept whispering: “How could he do that to his kids?” Howard’s ex-wife told police they got in an argument over his cell phone, and he punched her..
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  • JEA shutting down power park, laying off 200

    JEA shutting down power park, laying off 200
    JEA and its operating partner said Friday they will shut down a landmark electric plant near the port, displacing more than 200 employees and cutting JEA’s overall carbon dioxide emissions by almost a third. JEA executives consider the closure in January of what was once the largest construction project in Jacksonville history the end of an era as well as a sign of the changing landscape for power generation. JEA and Florida Power & Light Company jointly operate the St. Johns River Power Park..
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  • Gardening column: Tips for selecting a professional pest control ...

    Gardening column: Tips for selecting a professional pest control ...
    Folks new to Florida quickly discover that our climate is ideal for many insect pests and plant diseases. Plant pathologists often joke that they move to Florida to study plant diseases because of the warm humid climate and then move back to the Northwest in retirement where there are less disease issues. The same can be said of entomologists, who have a full plate trying to keep up with managing our many pest problems plus the new ones arriving from other countries on a regular basis. M..
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  • JC Penney to close stores on Dunn Avenue, in Palatka

    JC Penney to close stores on Dunn Avenue, in Palatka
    The J.C. Penney store on Dunn Avenue and another in Palatka are among the 138 stores that the struggling department store chain will close this spring. The chain had announced in February that it would close between 130 and 140 stores in the next few months, but it hadn’t named which stores. Friday, it made it official: The J.C. Penney store in the Jacksonville Regional Shopping Center at the corner of Dunn Avenue and Lem Turner Road is on the list. So is the store in the Palatka Mall. They a..
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  • Jacksonville man injured after being shot by father: Police

    Jacksonville man injured after being shot by father: Police
    Jacksonville man injured after being shot by father: Police Anthony Austin anchors. 3/17/2017 First Coast News , WTLV 11:20 PM. EDT March 17, 2017 Police at the scene of a home in Newtown after a father-son shooting. (Photo: Janny Rodriguez) A Jacksonville man is in the hospital after being shot in the shoulder by his father Friday evening at a home in New Town, authorities say.Investigators with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office can't say if the shooting w..
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  • Ron Littlepage: It's time to spruce up the Northbank Riverwalk

    Ron Littlepage: It's time to spruce up the Northbank Riverwalk
    Mousing around the news of the day … click. The Northbank Riverwalk is often described as a jewel of our downtown riverfront. It had gotten a bit shabby in places over the years. Last week, Daryl Joseph, the city’s parks director, updated the Jacksonville Waterways Commission on efforts to make the riverwalk more inviting. Worn benches are being repainted, and a better system for collecting garbage is being put in place. Unfortunately, when the city does have something nice, a few idiots occa..
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