Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Last Top Stories: Jacksonville police signing up early to take retirement benefits out of concern about changes | jacksonville

  • Jacksonville police signing up early to take retirement benefits out of concern about changes | jacksonville

    Jacksonville police signing up early to take retirement benefits out of concern about changes | jacksonville
    This is the same brainwashing rant Rutherford pumped.Did Williams ask for the resignations of the top 30 command staff, he said he did? These were Rutherford's nepotism posse. Are they still drawing a pay check?There is a belief the police are better than citizens. That they're special and different, deserving more and more money. That we must sympathize with their hardships, their struggles and the constant whine that comes from weak men and women hiding behind a badge. I was a combat soldier, ..
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  • Traffic Info: Jacksonville Veterans Day Parade

    Traffic Info: Jacksonville Veterans Day Parade
    First Coast News3:51 p.m. EST November 10, 2015File, First Coast News(Photo: First Coast News)JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The City of Jacksonville is paying tribute to our military, past and present, with the annual Veterans Day Parade on Wednesday morning.The parade, presented in part by the law offices of Ron Sholes, kicks off at 11:01 a.m. at EverBank Field -- in recognition of the first minute after World War I ended on Nov. 11, 1918.Serving as the parade Grand Marshal will be retired Major Genera..
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  • Jacksonville jail escapee sought by police | jacksonville

    Jacksonville jail escapee sought by police | jacksonville
    Jacksonville police are searching for an inmate who failed to return from a work-release program Tuesday.Quentin M. Brown, 49, was serving 12 months on a cocaine possession charge, according to the Sheriff’s Office.No details of where he was working were released by police.Anyone who has information about Brown’s whereabouts can contact the Sheriff’s Office at (904) 630-0500 or by email atJSOCrimeTips@jaxsheriff.org. To remain anonymous and receive a possible reward up to $3,000 contact Crime St..
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  • NTSB report on plane crash with Jacksonville lawyers on board:

    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. —The National Transportation Safety Board released the preliminary report on theplane crashwith two Jacksonville attorneys on board thatleft the pilot dead.The plane was headed from Jacksonville to Fort Lauderdale last month when it crashed just miles from the airport there. That plane had issues after taking off from Herlong Airport and had to stop at Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport before flying south. They stopped at JaxEx because a cockpit window wasn’t completely ..
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  • Jacksonville City Council holds off on approving its own raises | jacksonville

    Jacksonville City Council holds off on approving its own raises | jacksonville
    The Jacksonville City Council held off on increasing their salaries on Tuesday after a group of council members argued the city’s rank-and-file employees should get raises before they do.While the 6 percent raises easily won approval last week by a council committee, it proved to be a tougher sell to the full council.The meeting drew a large crowd of police officers and their union president, as well as the president of the firefighters union. And when it came time for council members to speak b..
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  • Laura Bush talks family, life and bobbleheads in Jacksonville Speaker Series | jacksonville

    Laura Bush talks family, life and bobbleheads in Jacksonville Speaker Series | jacksonville
    In summing up life after eight years in the White House, former first lady Laura Bush presented the audience before her with a jolly, bouncing bobblehead.“For me, it’s come to this,” she quipped, eliciting laughs from the crowd at the Times-Union Center. “This is the Laura Bush bobblehead doll. I got this from a friend of mine who found it in a gift shop in the Constitution Center in Philadelphia a few weeks after President Obama’s election. It was on the clearance shelf.”Yet in the years since ..
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  • Duval Board member says she was followed after night meeting

    Duval Board member says she was followed after night meeting
    Call it the case of the dark SUV.Duval School Board member Constance Hall said Tuesday she had a scare last week after she left the monthly School Board meeting around 10 p.m. and was followed by someone driving a dark SUV.It was dark and rainy as Hall and fellow board members left. Hall said she noticed a dark SUV had parked in an usual angle and spot, near the front door of the school district building.As she drove through the parking lot to go home, she noticed the SUV quickly pulled up behin..
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  • Jacksonville Sheriff: 400 guns stolen out of cars this year in

    Jacksonville Sheriff: 400 guns stolen out of cars this year in
    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. —Local guns stolen out of cars are showing up at local crime scenes.The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office announced Monday they arrested two carjacking suspects in a hotel room where detectives also found a gun stolen from an unlocked car in May.Sheriff Mike Williams said this crime is spiking in Duval County. Action News Jax went through our records and found how some of those stolen guns were then used to break the law.A flipped car on the side of the highway surrounded by JSO: ..
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  • Times-Union roundtable: What's right, what's not with Jaguars

    Times-Union roundtable: What's right, what's not with Jaguars
    Halfway through the third year of the Dave Caldwell/Gus Bradley Era, the Jaguars have more wins (two) than the previous two first halves combined (one).But at 2-6, the Jaguars are on pace for a fifth straight season of double-digit losses.What went wrong — and right — in the first half? What can fans look forward to in the season’s second half?In this beat writers’ roundtable, 10 questions are debated by Vito Stellino, Hays Carlyon and Ryan O’Halloran. When applicable, we’ve avoided repetitive a..
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  • WWII battle injuries changed Jacksonville GI's view of life forever | jacksonville

    WWII battle injuries changed Jacksonville GI's view of life forever | jacksonville
    A barrage of 88mm artillery shells pelted the frozen earth of the Hurtgen Forest along the German border, and 19-year-old infantryman Phil May fell backwards into a foxhole.Dazed, his eyes moved over the motionless G.I. before him. He blinked.His gaze drifted down toward a gaping wound in his right thigh as blood slowly pooled. His femur bone was shattered.The seconds passed, not with quiet ticks of time but with echoes of gunfire from warring American and German soldiers.The shock wore off, the..
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