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• Unbroken: Jacksonville family reunited after abuse claim

  

  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — When Brooke Bornhorst and Will Meade were arrested in June 2014, social media lit up, calling for the Jacksonville couple to be jailed, tortured and even executed."I should be sterilized, we should have our bones broken same way we broke our children's," recalls Brooke, mentally scrolling through the hundreds of comments. "Just horrible."The reaction was reflective of the ghastly charges against them. Their newborn infant had more broken bones than she had weeks on earth. Be..

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• Woman hit by stray gunfire in Northwest Jacksonville | www

  

  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. —The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office is investigating after a woman was hit in the leg by stray gunfire on Monday night in the 5300 block of Golfbrook Drive.Police were dispatched to the area around 8:30 p.m. to reports of a person shot. Investigators found that "unknown individuals" were arguing nearby and fired a gun. The woman, who was nearby but not involved in the argument, was hit in the leg and transported to UF Health Jacksonville.Latest News Headlines from Action NewsJ..

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• New Girls Inc

  

  On April 20, 1999, Robin Rose departed from her Denver home to go on a business trip across the country.She was in the air when two teens went on a shooting spree at Columbine High School near Denver, where her daughter Ashley was a freshman. Thirteen people died, 20 others were wounded.When Rose arrived at her destination, she had a message from her older daughter about the shootings, but no news of Ashley. She got back on a plane and headed home, the longest six-hour trip of her life, but foun..

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• Mayor Curry tours Jacksonville Journey programs | jacksonville

  

  From bottle-feeding infants to suspension-serving high school students, Mayor Lenny Curry got a first-hand view Monday of some youth programs that are in the running for more money in a retooled Jacksonville Journey.At the Alternative to Out-of-School Suspension Program at Southside Middle School, Curry told students that he got suspended from school when he was in the eighth grade.Duval School Superintendent Nikolai Vitti picked up on what Curry said by telling the students that “we all make mi..

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• Jacksonville Jaguars are good at finding ways to lose - Big Cat Country

  

  Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY SportsThe Jaguars are bad at winning football games, but good at losing football games. That's not great.Each time theJacksonville Jaguarslose, I’ll get a couple of text messages from my friends wondering which cliché head coach Bradley will use in the post-game press conference to spin how it was a good loss. It’s usually a variety of jokes spun off the comment of the game being a learning experience or something along that route. Undoubtedly it always ends up with ..

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• Black lab puppy seriously injured in westside Jacksonville

  

  Clark Fouraker, WTLX/WJXX Jacksonville6:43 p.m. EST November 9, 2015WARNING: Graphic imagesKing the puppy was injured by hot grease(Photo: Clark Fouraker/FCN)JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In a small yard on the westside of Jacksonville, something is missing."When I first looked at him, it looked like somebody poured acid on him. It was bubbly and there was skin missing," said Alivia Wilson, the owner of the injured black lab puppy.King - the family's lab - was on the porch and hurting."I was able to se..

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• Jacksonville aircraft manufacturer lands contract to build six Super Tucano planes for Lebanon | jacksonville

  

  A Jacksonville manufacturer of light attack aircraft got an additional contract to produce the planes for the Republic of Lebanon.Embraer Defense & Security along with Sierra Nevada Corp. announced Monday that they landed a new contract with Lebanese government officials to purchase six new A-29 Super Tucano turbo-prop aircraft. The contract also includes logistical support for operations and training systems for Lebanese Air Force pilots and mechanics.The planes will be built in the Jackson..

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• New network focuses on connecting vets with local colleges

  

  A new initiative aims to get more of Northeast Florida’s nearly 30,000 military servicemen and women through college and gainfully employed.Leaders from Jacksonville University, the University of North Florida, Florida State College at Jacksonville and Edward Waters College gathered at JU Monday to announce the launch of the Northeast Florida Military Veterans College Network.The launch comes as the city kicks off its annual Week of Valor in honor of Veterans Day.“This is a first-of-its-kind net..

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• 410 - No Longer Available | Home - Home

  

  Victoria Carter, a mother of two, said she has no idea how long it will take her to clean the house or replace what she's lost.

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• Miles of marsh on Nassau River being bought by land trust

  

  The largest block of unprotected land in the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve is apparently going to be protected after all.The North Florida Land Trust said Monday it could close within weeks on 2,551 acres along the Nassau River, the biggest purchase in the trust’s 16-year history.“This is a major, major acquisition for us,” said Jim McCarthy, the trust’s executive director. “We’re really pleased with that.”The trust will pay $750,000 for the property, mostly marshland that it hopes t..

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