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• Mayor's office announces panelists for town hall meeting on LGBT...

  

  Duval County School Board member Cheryl Grymes and University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville professor Jeff Goldhagen will be part of a six-person panel that will discuss LGBT issues at a meeting organized Tuesday evening by Mayor Lenny Curry.The panel also will feature Roger Gannam of Liberty Counsel. Gannam represented Kim Davis, the county clerk in Kentucky who was jailed when she refused to comply with a federal court order to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples.The for..

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• FSU basketball hosts the Jacksonville Dolphins - Tomahawk Nation

  

  Kim Klement-USA TODAY SportsStudents get in free. It's never too late to stop being lame.One of the most difficult skills to impart on college basketball players is the focus and intensity necessary to be consistent at this level. Players need to focus on the season, focus on each game, focus on each 4-minute interval between media timeouts, focus on every possession. We'll learn something about this team tonight when they take the court against Jacksonville (0-1). After the Noles dismantled..

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• Jacksonville's Crowley constructing huge pier in Puerto Rico to handle LNG ships | jacksonville

  

  Jacksonville-based Crowley Maritime Corp. has started construction on a new $48.5 million pier in San Juan, Puerto Rico to handle the company’s liquefied natural gas ships.The project, overseen by subsidiary Crowley Puerto Rico Services Inc,, will include a 900-foot-long, 114-foot-wide concrete pier, a news release said Tuesday. The structure is being built in anticipation of the 2017 arrival of the LNG ships owned by Crowley that will make regular trips between Jacksonville and the U.S. territo..

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• Career Track: Jacksonville area professionals on the move | jacksonville

  

  Jacksonville Naval Hospital selectedCapt. Michael Sullivanas director for medical services andCapt. Elizabeth Adrianoas director for surgical services.Sullivan previously served as director for medical services at NH Twentynine Palms, Calif. Adriano was a physician in Jacksonville Naval Hospital’s Obstetrics/Gynecology department.■■■Gov. Rick Scott appointedJared Frittsto the Commercial Motor Vehicle Review Board.Fritts is a field safety manager for Landstar Transportation Logistics.■■■St. Johns..

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• Home and Garden calendar

  

  SATURDAYJacksonville Farmers Market, dawn to dusk daily year round, 1810 W. Beaver St. Features local, organic, ethnic and specialty produce, along with other foods and agricultural products. (904) 354-2821 or jaxfarmersmarket.com.Canning Class: Holiday Gifts, 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, Duval County Extension Service, 1010 N. McDuff Ave. Event repeats Monday. $20 each class. Registration, (904) 255-7450.Amelia Farmers Market, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays, Shops of Omni Amelia Island Plantation, Fernandina..

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• Jaguars receiver Allen Hurns back at practice on Tuesday

  

  ByHays Carlyon(Hays Carlyon's Blog)November 17, 2015 - 12:18pmThe Jaguars look like they will have one of their top weapons in the passing game for Thursday night's game against Tennessee at EverBank Field.Receiver Allen Hurns returned to practice on Tuesday after missing Monday's walk-through to visit sports hernia specialist Dr. William Meyers in Philadelphia. Hurns had previously visited Meyers after the New England game on Sept. 27 and went straight to Philadelphia following Sunday's 22-20 w..

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• Jacksonville police searching for Kangaroo robbery suspect | jacksonville

  Jacksonville police are asking for help identifying or locating a man suspected of robbing a Kangaroo gas station in the 4800 block of San Pablo Road about 5 a.m. Sunday.The robber displayed a black automatic handgun, demanded money and fled from the store after he was given the money.He is described as 30 to 35 years old and 5-foot-2 to 5-foot-5. He was captured on surveillance.People with any possible information about his identity or location can contact the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office at..

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• Summit on prison reform brings together left and right

  

  Prison reform isn’t a warm and fuzzy topic, but it has brought together conservatives and liberals like few other issues in recent years.Imagine these people working together: Conservative political insider Newt Gingrich, the libertarian Koch brothers, consumer guru Clark Howard and the liberal-leaning folks from the ACLU.Yet those people will be represented Wednesday and Thursday in Jacksonville at a two-day summit, Operation Reform, that touts criminal justice reform as its mission.And unlike ..

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• Driver in fatal crash where woman dragged behind tractor-trailer in...

  

  Charges will not be filed against a truck driver after an investigation into a traffic fatality in October where a woman was hit by the back of a tractor-trailer in the parking lot of a gas station and dragged as the driver left the scene, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.Investigators were able to track down the driver and determined the trucker was unaware 43-year-old Kelly Lee Black was struck Oct. 23 at the 11325 W. Beaver St. Kangaroo store just after 6 a.m., the Sheriff’s Off..

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• 1 shot early Tuesday at Jacksonville's Eureka Garden apartments | jacksonville

  

  One person was wounded early Tuesday when a shooter fired into an apartment at Jacksonville’s Eureka Garden complex.The victim was shot in the lower right calf shortly before 1 a.m. at the complex at 1214 Labelle St., police said.Three other people were in the apartment but not injured. Police did not have a suspect and did not release other details about what prompted the gunfire.It was the second shooting at the problem-plagued apartments in less than a week. Saturday a man was wounded in th..

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