Jacksonville native Rashean Mathis retires from NFL
Rashean Mathis, a Jacksonville native who played a decade for the hometown Jaguars, announced his retirement from the NFL today. Mathis graduated from Englewood High School before attending Bethune-Cookman. A second-round draft pick in 2003, he played for the Jaguars until 2012, when he was not re-signed. He played the last three years for the Detroit Lions. Mathis, who was under contract for 2016, made the announcement on the Lions’ website. He will turn 36 years old on Aug. 27. Slideshow: Ras..>> view originalJacksonville native Rashean Mathis retires from NFL
Rashean Mathis, a Jacksonville native who played a decade for the hometown Jaguars, announced his retirement from the NFL today. Mathis graduated from Englewood High School before attending Bethune-Cookman. A second-round draft pick in 2003, he played for the Jaguars until 2012, when he was not re-signed. He played the last three years for the Detroit Lions. Mathis, who was under contract for 2016, made the announcement on the Lions’ website. He will turn 36 years old on Aug. 27. Slideshow: Ras..>> view originalUNF student killed in head-on accident in Riverside
Updated: Feb 15, 2016 - 11:06 AM JACKSONVILLE, Fla. รข€” Friends said a 20-year-old college student was killed in a head-on collision in Riverside Sunday. The intersection of Roosevelt and Old Roosevelt boulevards was shut down as detectives investigated the crash. Friends said Laura Erdelyi was a student at the University of North Florida. She was driving a Honda Civic when it was hit by an SUV before noon, authorities said. Witnesses said they heard a loud crash before they saw ..>> view originalComcast cable outage hits Jacksonville and other U.S. metro areas
Customers of Comcast Corp. lost part of their cable television service for several hours in many major U.S. metropolitan areas Monday, including Jacksonville, but the company said the problem was fixed in most places by early afternoon. Company spokeswoman Jenni Moyer says engineers continue to work on what she characterized as a temporary network interruption. "Our engineers continue to work on this issue and almost all services have already been restored," she said. "We apologize for any inco..>> view originalJacksonville Jazz Fest announces plans for Memorial Day weekend
The Jacksonville Jazz Festival returns to the streets of downtown over the Memorial Day weekend. Among the aretists scheduled to perform are Jon Batiste & Stay Human, Snarky Puppy, the Yellowjackets, Cyrille Aimee, Jamison Ross, the Longineu Parsons Ensemble, the Dizzy Gillespie Band & Afro Cuban Experience with Machito Jr., the Benny Golson Quartet, Generation NeXt featuring Nicholas Cole, Somi and Christian Scott. The festival will kick off with the traditional Jacksonville Jazz Piano Competi..>> view originalJacksonville Armada president out, owner takes on bigger role
The Jacksonville Armada and team president Steve Livingstone have parted ways, ending the tenure of the club’s longest-tenured employee, the club announced Monday. Armada owner and CEO Mark Frisch has taken over the team’s day-to-day operations, effective immediately. The announcement is the second major shake-up at the club in the last five months, following the Sept. 21 dismissal of general manager Dario Sala, then-coach Guillermo Hoyos and his entire staff. “I look forward to working closely..>> view originalJacksonville woman's experience highlighted in Jeb Bush campaign ...
A Jeb Bush campaign speech Monday in South Carolina highlighted a Jacksonville woman and a voucher program for low-income students that he created as governor of Florida. Bush ended his speech in North Charleston with the story of Denisha Merriweather, a low-income student who benefitted from a tax-credit scholarship that allowed her to go to Espirit de Corps Center for Learning. The scholarship offers tax credits to businesses providing private-school scholarships to low-income students. Bush..>> view originalEnjoying Jacksonville means getting out on the water
You haven’t really discovered Jacksonville until you’ve seen the city from the water. You may think of downtown as nothing extraordinary until you’ve seen the skyline from a boat in the St. Johns River, approaching from the south, in the early evening when the wind is calm and the river smooth, sparkling lights reflected in the water’s mirrored surface. And you may have caught glimpses of the marshes of the Timucuan Preserve and the tidal creeks that lace through them from a roadway or a bridge..>> view originalBoutros Boutros-Ghali, first U.N. chief from Africa has died
CAIRO — Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a veteran Egyptian diplomat who helped negotiate his country's landmark peace deal with Israel but then clashed with the United States when he served a single term as U.N. secretary-general, has died. He was 93. Boutros-Ghali, the scion of a prominent Egyptian Christian political family, was the first U.N. chief from the African continent. He stepped into the post in 1992 at a time of dramatic world changes, with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of the Co..>> view originalCoast Guard hearings begin in Jacksonville into sinking of El Faro
Coast Guard hearings begin in Jacksonville into sinking of El Faro JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) – The captain of the doomed freighter El Faro emailed his superiors asking about changing the route home the day before his ship sank in a hurricane near the Bahamas, according to testimony Tuesday at an investigative hearing. The email from Michael Davidson asked whether he could take a slower route home from Puerto Rico through the Old Bahama Channel after trying to outrun Hurricane Joaquin. The El..>> view originalBlack History Month calendar
Programs in celebration of Black History Month during February: WEDNESDAY Black History Moments, 11:45 a.m., Oceanway Senior Center, 12215 Sago Ave. (904) 696-4331. Author Talk and Book Signing, 5 p.m., Bradham Brooks branch library, 1755 Edgewood Ave. W. Features award-winning author Rodney L. Hurst Sr., with “It Was Never About a Hot Dog and a Coke: A personal account of the 1960 sit-in demonstrations in Jacksonville, Florida, and Ax Handle Saturday.” Books available for purchase. (904) 765..>> view original
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
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