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  James Hinton reminisced about how The Jacksonville Landing’s food court used to be packed with people every day. It was lunchtime and Hinton gazed out the second-story windows overlooking the outdoor stage below with the St. Johns River as a backdrop. “It used to be busy,” said Hinton, 36, of the downtown shopping hub. “Their food court used to be filled and there would be lines” of people. Hinton said he still visits the Landing for food after workouts at the nearby Jax Gym. But on a recent af..

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• Homemade drug krokodil in dead Jacksonville inmate's system is ...

  

  It’s easy to make — just mix an ingredient in prescription cough medicine with some caustic household chemicals. But using krokodil, one of the drugs that escaped Duval County jail inmate Debra Ercolano said she regularly used before she died late Monday, also is like “playing Russian roulette," according to at least one local medical official. Ercolano, 55, called the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office on Monday to turn herself in after she ran away Thursday from a Lane Avenue work program, Direct..

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• Mentally disabled Jacksonville man arrested in death of man at ...

  

  A 51-year-old mentally disabled resident of a Jacksonville assisted-living facility is now in police custody after the death of another man there over the weekend. Freddie Lee Williams of the R&R Loving Hands home at 2489 E. Justin Road was charged Sunday with aggravated disabled adult abuse, but more charges could be added depending on the autopsy, according to his arrest report. Kevin D’Juan Wilkes, 32, was pronounced dead at a hospital Sunday about 3:20 a.m. after he was transported from the..

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• Police: Accused shooter in attempted murder/suicide at ...

  

  The 58-year-old retired undercover Connecticut cop who shot his ex-fiancee Thursday in a Jacksonville parking lot, then turned the gun on himself and died Monday night, was in a witness protection program under a new name. According to one of William “Billy” Chase Jr.’s attorneys, he was not the abuser — he was abused and had petitioned for, but was denied, protection against Lynn Herriott on March 28. Attorney Meredith Brasca said Chase told her Herriott lied to police when she said he forced ..

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• Pressure no problem for Bartram Trail tennis star Martin Gutierrez

  

  High pressure? No problem. When the heat turns up, Martin Gutierrez doesn’t back down. “If you start to be timid on your shots or hold back, you’re going to lose anyway,” he said. “So you’ve got to just go for it.” The Bartram Trail senior turned big-match pressure into big-time results throughout the 2016 high school season and was named the Times-Union’s boys tennis player of the year. RELATED: All-First Coast boys tennis Gutierrez won his first 16 matches of 2016 to earn the district champ..

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