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11-year-old Virginia boy charged with making swatting calls to Florida schools
Authorities say an 11-year-Virginia boy is charged in Florida with calling in more than 20 bomb or shooting threats at schools. Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said Thursday that investigators were particularly motivated to find the caller before students returned to school next month. Emergency services received the first bomb threat on May 14. They continued for another week. Investigators tracked the calls to a home near Richmond, Virginia. Local deputies executed a search warrant at the home this month, and said the 11-year-old boy who lived there admitted making the Florida swatting calls.
'It’s just massive': Artist Walk Skate Park is ready to open. What will it be like?
Skaters interested in Artist Walk Skate Park won’t have to wait much longer for the gates to come down and the park to officially open for public use. City Council voted Tuesday night to approve the Florida Department of Transportation lease on all six acres of the park. The...
Talking the Tropics With Mike: Atlantic remains quiet for now....
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Jax Beach Baseball Association wins state championship
Players from the Jacksonville Beach Baseball Association won the Cal Ripken 11U Florida State Championship. The team will move on to the Cal Ripken 11U World Series in Florence, Ala., Aug. 1. The series ends Aug. 11.
Florida's back-to-school tax-free holiday is coming up. Here is what you can buy
Florida is set to have its first back-to-school sales tax holiday this weekend, which will undoubtedly save parents big bucks on school supplies, new clothes and any gadgets they might need for the upcoming school year. Be on the look out for ongoing sales to compound the savings, which typically...
As states tap into federal dollars to address climate change, Floridians lose out
Siri Alexander, 37, is an entrepreneur, selling clothes and soaps to women through her online store. Up until recently, Alexander and her 16-year-old daughter didn’t have a home. For six months they were staying with family and friends across the Tampa Bay region. "Not having my own home and...
Tampa Bay Times wins top honors in Florida journalism
The Tampa Bay Times won 17 awards on Thursday from the Florida Society of News Editors, including one for the most distinguished journalist in the state. The Times won a coveted gold medal recognizing two separate efforts — the newsroom’s hurricane coverage and an investigative series on the dangers of kratom.
Woman at heart of Geneva Co. Alabama ‘love triangle’ shooting arrested in Florida
HOLMES COUNTY, Ala (WDHN) — A woman at the center of a deadly “love triangle” in Geneva County has been arrested on drug charges in the Florida panhandle just months after her husband was found guilty. According to the Holmes County Sheriff’s Office, Penny Carnley was arrested on Saturday, July 20, during a traffic stop […]
FWC unravels organized fraud case involving Florida’s Osceola turkey, four arrested on felony charges
CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. (WWSB) - On July 24, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s Division of Law Enforcement announced charges against four individuals involved in a fraudulent scheme to defraud hunters seeking Osceola turkey hunts. Larry William Collins, David Preston Mills, Paul Neil Beckham, and Vernon Robert Flowers...
City support rises for strengthening UF Health Jacksonville's safety net for poor patients
The marriage of the University of Florida and the city of Jacksonville at the Eighth Street medical campus has had its ups and downs, but the city is pumping more money than ever into UF Health Jacksonville while it stabilizes its shaky finances. Mayor Donna Deegan is proposing $56 million as a subsidy...
Community Solutions Raises $135 Million for Housing Fund
Community Solutions announced that it has secured $135 million to close out its CS Large Cities Housing Fund to provide housing resources to individuals exiting homelessness and middle-income individuals. The private equity fund is supported by some of the largest social impact investors in the nation, ranging from health systems...
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