Local Red Cross chapters and other charities are mobilizing to help the people in Oklahoma affected by Monday's tornado, but they need your help.

A 75-year-old Jacksonville man who'd been missing for four days was found alive Tuesday morning in a wooded area about a mile from his Westside home.

The damage from a tornado that ravaged Oklahoma on Monday is difficult enough for adults to understand, so imagine the affect it is having on children who now have nothing.

A local mother is sharing her young son's harrowing story in the hopes it will save another child's life.

Hours after community leaders held a news conference announcing an agreement to reopen 16 Head Start facilities in Jacksonville, the Florida Department of Children and Families says it will also allow the eight remaining centers to reopen.

The leader of the New Black Panther Party was arrested Monday on a charge of resisting an officer without violence.

As Gov. Rick Scott balanced his budget, he had to make cuts. One of those cuts isn't making Jacksonville's Mayor Alvin Brown or some high school students very happy. 

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Jacksonville's community hospital is changing its name in an effort to attract patents who have a choice of where they go.

A 2-year-old boy pulled from a backyard pool at an unlicensed home day care center on the Westside on Tuesday afternoon is in critical condition, according to police.

A 28-year-old man charged in the stabbing death of a Chicago Bears fan at the Jacksonville Landing last year pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder.

A woman on a Sea Island golf course was hit in the stomach by a bullet man who says he was out shooting squirrels Sunday morning, according to the Glynn County Sheriff's Office.

Two years after a 27-year-old Orange Park woman was last seen, she still has not been found.

Residents in Moore, Okla., had 16 minutes Monday to find safety or get out of the way of a disastrous tornado.

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office is searching a Westside area for a missing 75-year-old man.

In Jacksonville and across the state, officials were training Tuesday to react to storms.

An altercation between the defensive coordinator of the visiting San Jose Sabercats and general manager of the Jacksonville Sharks after Saturday night's game led to an assault that landed the local man in the hospital and the visiting man in jail.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who had a tough time winning cooperation this past year from the Republican-led Legislature, struck back on Monday by vetoing nearly $400 million from the state's new budget.

A 26-year-old man was killed in a single-vehicle crash on the Northside late Sunday night, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.

A 31-year-old Jacksonville man is charged with murder in the shooting death of another man at a crab boil late Saturday night on the Northside.

The attention shifted from the athletes on the sand to a man pulled unresponsive from the ocean during Sunday's "Never Quit Never" event.

A search-and-rescue effort to find survivors of a monster tornado that pulverized a vast swath of the suburbs of Oklahoma City shifted Tuesday to one of recovery, officials said.

No new survivors or bodies have been found since the early hours after ...

The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office has been told to expect about 40 additional bodies. At least 51 people have already been confirmed dead. The official death toll will not rise until the bodies are processed.

Police in Jacksonville are seeking information after a 25-year-old man was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Northwest Jacksonville early Saturday morning.

A 32-year-old Bradford County mother was arrested on a child neglect charge Monday after deputies said her 2-year-old son wandered into a neighbor's yard.

Faith and leadership converged Monday morning at Jacksonville's annual Interfaith Breakfast at the Prime Osborn Convention Center.

A 38-year-old Jacksonville man claimed a $1 million Powerball prize from Saturday night's drawing and split his winnings with a friend.

Before handing over hard earned cash to help the victims of the tornado, the Better Business Bureau is putting out a warning to think twice before you donate to a charitable organization.

Two Glen St. Mary teens were hurt when a four-wheeler they were on overturned Monday afternoon, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

A train struck a car stopped on railroad tracks on the Westside on Tuesday morning, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

Men worried about their sexual health are being bombarded by commercials promoting testosterone, but Consumer Reports' Dr. John Santa gives warnings about taking these prescriptions.