Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. joined push to end racial discrimination in nation’s oldest city
In 1964, the city of St. Augustine was preparing to celebrate its 400th anniversary. That same year, in a bid to rally support for the Civil Rights Act, which had stalled in Congress, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. joined the push to end racial discrimination in the nation’s oldest city.
Florida adds 430,000 infections to weekly caseload, setting record
With the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus continuing to spread, Florida totaled more than 430,000 cases of COVID-19 during the week that ended Thursday, according to a report released Friday by the state Department of Health.
5 hurt in crash involving sand truck that hit Westside Ace Hardware
Five people were taken to hospitals for treatment after a crash on West Beaver Street that involved a sand truck, which plowed into an Ace Hardware on Friday evening, according to the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department.
NOAA clears boaters of blame in crash that killed endangered whale
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Law Enforcement will not push for criminal charges against the crew of a fishing vessel that hit a pair of endangered, North Atlantic right whales in February 2021.