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Sources and neighbors said three people hurt and one dead after stabbing in Oakleaf
Action News Jax has video of the moment a woman ran for help after neighbors said she was stabbed at a home in the Copper Ridge subdivision. We want to warn you that it may be graphic for some.
Jacksonville mom wants her son’s middle school bullies held accountable after she was forced to remove him from school
ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. – A Jacksonville mom felt forced to remove her son from Mayport Middle School after he became a target for bullies. She said her son experienced the bullying over the school year with several incidents happening in April. The first incident was in early April. She...
Jacksonville police investigating 2 separate fatal stabbings
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office responded Thursday afternoon to two separate deadly stabbing incidents across Jacksonville. The first stabbing was reported at an Oakleaf home on Stapleton Drive in the Cooper Ridge subdivision. Police said it was a domestic incident that involved several people. A neighbor...
This Week in the 904: Jacksonville sheriff addresses school board reservations of new police chief
The superintendent named Jackson Short to replace Greg Burton, who is stepping down, but Short’s name was mentioned in political power broker Kent Stermon’s suicide note.
Jacksonville activist group comes out against stadium, jail plans, wants millions invested in ‘neglected parts of city’
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville activist group said Thursday it is strongly against the city’s multi-million dollar plan to renovate EverBank Stadium, home of the Jacksonville Jaguars. In a news release, the Northside Coalition said it is also against a potential $1 billion plan to move the Duval...
More than a decade later, JSO hopes new technology helps solve case of drive-by killings of 2 teenage girls
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – More than 10 years after two teenage girls were killed in a drive-by shooting in Northwest Jacksonville, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is reopening the case hoping technology may bring new leads that could result in an arrest. On Aug. 10, 2013, Megan Simmons, 14, was...
Delays ahead: Northside interchange construction will take a year longer to complete
Rick Scott still was governor of Florida when he joined state Department of Transportation leaders in November 2016 to kick off building a new interchange on the Northside of Jacksonville where Interstate 95 meets Interstate 295. The target date at the time for finishing the $176.8 million project was summer 2020. ...
Publix buys property for third Nocatee store for $6.66 million
Publix Super Markets Inc. paid $6.66 million May 15 for property for a new store in the Nocatee West shopping center. Plans show the site is bisected by the St. Johns and Duval county line. The seller was DDI Inc. of Jacksonville through Sonoc Company LLC. DDI is a holding...
Teen survivor left partially paralyzed in Ponte Vedra stabbing attack plans to walk across stage at graduation Friday
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A local teenager who was left partially paralyzed by an attempted murder-suicide stabbing attack outside a Ponte Vedra restaurant last June plans to walk across the stage Friday to receive her high school diploma. Schemitz never wavered in her belief that she would walk again, despite...
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