Two Northwest Jacksonville homes catch fire within minutes of each ...
Two Northwest Jacksonville homes catch fire within minutes of each other Shelby Danielsen reports on Good Morning Jacksonville at 6:30 a.m. Monday, March 7, 2016. Colette DuChanois, WTLV 2:10 PM. EST March 07, 2016 Crews battle a house fire in Northwest Jacksonville Sunday night. (Photo: WTLV) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The State Fire Marshal's Office is investigating after two vacant homes in Northwest Jacksonville caught fire within 30 minutes of each other Sun..>> view originalFIS to add 250 new jobs to its downtown Jacksonville workforce
FIS financial services announced Monday it will add 250 more jobs to its workforce at its downtown Jacksonville offices on the Southbank. Gov. Rick Scott, flanked by area business and government leaders, made the announcement at the FIS offices on San Marco Boulevard where the company moved over 80 of its employees from its Riverside operations to the Southbank in late 2015. “They’re making more than a $2 million investment for these 250 jobs” in capital improvements, Scott said. The announceme..>> view originalJacksonville bicyclist critically injured by Amtrak train
A 42-year-old bicyclist was critically injured Monday morning when he was hit by an Amtrak passenger train heading south at the McQuade Street intersection, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. The train had just left the Northside Jacksonville station when Herbert S. Porter was struck about 7:30 a.m., police said. A northbound freight train had just cleared the tracks when the southbound Amtrak train approached the crossing. The crossing arms were down and warning lights flashing, b..>> view originalUNF may get PECO funding after all
Members of the Duval County delegation have been working behind the scenes to get capital funding for the University of North Florida ever since they learned Sunday evening the school was left off the list of projects totalling $713.5 million. We wrote about the capital outlay budget on Sunday night and noted that the final phase of UNF's Skinner-Jones Hall South overhaul did not get funding despite being on a list of seven projects approved by the state Board of Governors in September. Making ..>> view originalJustina: Building a community one resident at a time
Along University Boulevard North at Jacksonville University, most drivers avoid turning right. That area in Arlington, from Merrill Road to Fort Caroline Road and University Boulevard to Cesery Road, is the Justina neighborhood, once one of Arlington’s original suburbs, formally known as Arlington Manor. Now its narrow, cracked streets are lined with one-story, concrete block homes flecked with paint and a hodgepodge of apartment buildings. For many in and outside of Arlington, Justina conjures..>> view originalWomen's History Month Calendar
MONDAY Authors and Artists, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Highlands branch library, 1826 Dunn Ave. Speaker is Tim Gilmore, local author and English professor on his book, “In Search of Eartha White, Storehouse for the People,” which looks at the life of an extraordinary local woman. (904) 530-2665 or, for all library events celebrating women’s history programs, go to jpl.coj.net/womenshistory. TUESDAY International Women’s Day, themed “Women Soaring to New Heights,” noon, Building 58W, University of North F..>> view originalJacksonville police identify 3 killed in Sunday hit-and-run
Three people killed in an early Sunday hit-and-run crash on Duval Station Road have been identified as three friends from Nassau County, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. John Curtiss Carlisle Jr., 24, and Jonathan Kyle Cassani, 23, both of Yulee, and Allison Nicole Bushey, 21, of Fernandina Beach, were killed in the fiery impact at North Main Street, the Sheriff’s Office said. Carlisle and Bushey were boyfriend and girlfriend, according to their Facebooks. Related: 3 die in hit-a..>> view originalGopher tortoise torturer pleads guilty; gets 32-day jail sentence
The 19-year-old Callahan woman charged with cruelty to animals after a 2014 Facebook video showed her torturing a gopher tortoise to death in Orange Park pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 32 days in jail, according to the State Attorney’s Office. But Jennifer Emoke Greene, who was initially ruled incompetent for trial, will be back to court again on a separate lewd or lascivious battery case only days after her jail sentence on the animal-cruelty charge is over, prosecutors said. Greene was f..>> view originalOrange Park gunman dead, co-worker wounded in workplace ...
A disgruntled employee is dead and a co-worker hospitalized after a workplace shooting scattered bullets and employees everywhere Monday in Orange Park, according to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office. The shooting occurred in the backyard work area at Jacksonville Granite on North Industrial Loop just west of Corporate Way, which runs off Wells Road. James Cameau, 34, had only worked at the business for about a month. He left the building before noon, not raising any suspicions when he did, Sher..>> view originalJEA initiative reduces power outages, especially ones caused by ...
A multimillion-dollar JEA initiative is paying off with fewer power outages, in part because of new equipment designed to keep animals — especially squirrels — from triggering electrical short circuits that plunge homes and businesses into darkness, utility officials say. Animals are a significant factor contributing to outages in JEA’s service territory, which includes about 3,000 miles of overhead primary distribution lines that are mostly 26,400 volts. Tree limbs falling or otherwise interfe..>> view original
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