Friday, March 18, 2016

OCearch tagging great white sharks off Jacksonville coast and other top stories.

  • OCearch tagging great white sharks off Jacksonville coast

    OCearch tagging great white sharks off Jacksonville coast Kathryn Jeffries, WTLV 1:41 PM. EST March 18, 2016 FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla-  They are the most famous of sharks. The apex predator of the water.Yet, compared to other shark species, not as much is known about the movements of the great white shark. That is where OCearch comes in.  They have tagged five female great white sharks in the Atlantic, now they are hoping to tag a male."To see how their movement patterns are possibly over..
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  • 30 laid off by BAE in Jacksonville, more possible

    30 laid off by BAE in Jacksonville, more possible
    30 laid off by BAE in Jacksonville, more possible First Coast News , WTLV 10:05 AM. EST March 18, 2016 BAE Systems employee Paladin Johnson monitors the flow of bilge water from the USS Vicksburg in a tanker truck at Naval Station Mayport August 24, 2011. (Photo: Times-Union file photo) JACKSONVILLE, Fla.- 30 employees at the Jacksonville shipyards run by BAE Systems are being laid off and as many as 180 could be laid off in May, the company announced Friday.The compa..
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  • Law & Order: Man, 23, faces life for fatal shooting

    Law & Order: Man, 23, faces life for fatal shooting
    A Jacksonville man faces a mandatory life sentence after he was convicted Wednesday night in the 2012 robbery and shooting death of a 16-year-old at an apartment complex on Art Museum Drive, according to the State Attorney’s Office. Tyrone Marquis Taylor, 23, was found guilty of first-degree murder and two counts of armed robbery, according to the State Attorney’s Office. Ranod McKann, an Arlington Country Day High football player, was robbed at gunpoint along with a 40-year-old dice game winn..
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  • Jacksonville mother arrested after children 3 and 5 left home alone

    Jacksonville mother arrested after children 3 and 5 left home alone
    A 25-year-old Jacksonville mother spent Thursday in jail on a charge of child neglect after two children 3 and 5 years old were left home alone for hours in an apartment on North University Club Boulevard, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Summer Michelle Pearson was released on $500 bail and has a public defender assigned for her arraignment April 7 after she was declared indigent, according to court records. Pearson’s arrest report indicates that she went to work for seven hours Tuesday at t..
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  • Giving Back: Meet Sara Ley

    Giving Back: Meet Sara Ley
    When people volunteer, they can change lives — including their own. Each week in Reason, we will highlight a volunteer’s story of giving back and how that selfless act was a true revelation. The volunteer project is a collaboration among the Times-Union, the University of North Florida, the United Way of Northeast Florida and HandsOn Jacksonville. On a cold January morning, Sara Ley was out with her boys, raking up leaves and participating in United Way of Northeast Florida’s annual MLK Day of..
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  • Huge task awaits Jacksonville University women in first NCAA ...

    Huge task awaits Jacksonville University women in first NCAA ...
    It’s been “Sleepless in Jacksonville,” the past week for Jacksonville women’s basketball coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin. After the Dolphins upset Florida Gulf Coast in the championship game of the Atlantic Sun Tournament, McPhee-McCuin has been in a whirlwind of phone calls and social media. This is JU’s first appearance in the NCAA Tournament. “My life has been sleepless,” the third-year JU coach said. “I thought I wasn’t getting any sleep before, I really haven’t since we won the A-Sun Tournamen..
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  • Jacksonville detective released from hospital after suffering multiple ...

    Jacksonville detective released from hospital after suffering multiple ...
    The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office announced Friday that an undercover detective who was shot during a traffic stop on March 9 has been released from the hospital. Police said the unidentified detective was taking his son to school and heading to work when he attempted a traffic stop after witnessing someone driving erratically. But when the driver got out of the car on Collins Road near Roosevelt Boulevard, police said he opened fire, hitting the detective three times through the windshield. Hi..
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