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• 20th anniversary of Jacksonville Veterans Memorial wall commemorated | jacksonville

  

  A commemoration ceremony headed by Mayor Lenny Curry marked the 20th anniversary of the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial on Wednesday morning.A handful of Gold Star family members sat in front of Curry as he praised their fallen loved ones for their military sacrifice.“This is a promise that we will never forget,” Curry said. “A promise that we will always, always remember.”The 65-foot-long monument is the second-largest memorial wall in the country and recognizes about 1,700 war heroes from Jacks..

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• Mayors discuss 'banning the box' at Operation Reform summit | jacksonville

  

  This week’s national “Operation Reform” summit on re-entry solutions for people returning home from prison began with an airing of former Jacksonville City Council President Kevin Hyde’s TedxJacksonville talk on “banning the box.”Fear — of hiring the wrong person, something going awry, costly lawsuits — is what keeps managers from considering applicants who checked the box saying they have a record, Hyde said in the video shown for White House officials, faith leaders, law enforcement officers a..

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• Missing Jacksonville girl found in St

  

  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -A 16-year-old Jacksonville girl who had been missing for more than 48 hours was found Wednesday afternoon in St. Johns County.According to a police report, Sarah Andrews disappeared Monday afternoon from her home on Hyde Grove Avenue, just off Lane Avenue on the city's Westside.Sarah's father got a call at work, saying Sarah had gone for a walk while her mother was at a doctor's appointment. She never returned.Her mother, father and nine siblings were frantic and feared the w..

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• St. Johns student airlifted after I-95 school bus crash

  

  The driver of a St. Johns County school bus has been cited with careless driving after a Wednesday-morning wreck on southbound Interstate 95 near International Golf Parkway injured four students, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.There were 11 Pacetti Bay Middle School students on the bus in the single-vehicle crash that occurred just before 7 a.m. when Joseph David Sanks, 69, of St. Augustine drove off the interstate and struck some trees, according to the Highway Patrol. Three trees were..

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• Jacksonville man, 60, convicted in 2002 sexual battery after DNA evidence linked to him | jacksonville

  A jury took less than an hour Thursday to convict a 60-year-old Jacksonville man whose DNA matched evidence recovered from a victim after a sexual battery in 2002, according to the State Attorney’s Office and court records.Richard Curtis Sanders Jr. was convicted of sexual battery and kidnapping and faces life in prison, according to the State Attorney’s Office.Sanders covered the female victim’s head with a blanket in March 2012 and threatened to kill her if she didn’t stay quiet, prosecutors s..

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• Emily Kinney at Jacksonville | News - Home

  

  CRIME WATCH DAILY HERE ON THE LOCAL STATION. Nikki: SHE DEFINITELY MADE IT BIG WHEN SHE HAS BEEN ON SOME OF THE BIGGEST TV SHOWS IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, YOU'LL REMEMBER HER WHEN SHE WAS BETH ON "THE WALKING DEAD" OR NOW I HAVE HAVE SEEN HER RECENTLY ON MASTERS OF SEX, SHE'S MULTITALENTED AND RELEASED HER FULL LENGTH ALBUM AND GOING THE BE PERFORMING TONIGHT HERE IN JACKSONVILLE AT JACK RANNIVITIES, JOINING ME NOW EMILY KENNY, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING IN, WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT. I KNOW WE HAV..

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• World Relief Jacksonville: Blocking refugees a 'knee-jerk

  

  Jacksonville, Fl. —Florida GovernorRick Scottsent a letter to Congressasking for members to block President Barack Obama from funding the relocation of Syrian refugees to the state, following the devastating terrorist attacks in Paris. It’s a position Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry and Senator Bill Nelson both support.World Relief Jacksonville, like United States Attorney General Loretta Lynch, calls the request a “knee jerk reaction.” Instead backing thevetting process of all refugees already ..

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• FSCJ and developer seek city financial assistance for downtown...

  

  The seven-block walk from 20 W. Adams St. to Florida State College at Jacksonville’s downtown campus goes past Chamblin’s Uptown book store, Hemming Park, the Main Library, the Museum of Contemporary Art, City Hall and the First Baptist Church campus.FSCJ officials hope that a year from now, up to 60 of its students will be able to make that walk because they’ll be living at 20 W. Adams St., a six-story, century-old building that’s stood vacant for years in the heart of downtown.The Downtown Inv..

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• Police identify man shot to death during apparent robbery in...

  A man who was shot to death Saturday morning during an apparent robbery in Jacksonville was identified by police Wednesday afternoon.Curtis Young Jr., 54, of the 2600 block of North Market Street was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead after he was shot on the street about 7:15 a.m., police said.The shooter was last seen running westbound on 16th Street toward North Main Street.Neighbors told investigators they heard multiple gunshots. No other details have been released.Anyone with..

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