CRIME

Neighbors were surrounded by empty shell casings and left feeling rattled after shots were fired early Monday morning in a westside neighborhood.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is looking for four suspects allegedly involved in a theft of firearms on the westside of the city.

A video recording of a Bradford County preschool teacher using threatening language toward a student is shedding light on what led to an investigation that ultimately shut down the Starke school.

Three separate shootings were reported around the Jacksonville area overnight. All victims were taken to the hospital and are expected to be OK.

A man found guilty of first-degree murder for orchestrating a jailhouse hit was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, court records show.

A man accused of murder in two separate shooting incidents months apart that left four people dead appeared in court Thursday, and his attorney told the judge she is arranging for a mental competency evaluation for Terrell Lewis.

A Florida judge heard arguments Wednesday afternoon in a civil lawsuit filed by the family of a murdered Florida woman against her suspected killer.

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office had a busy weekend filled with plenty of alleged crimes.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is looking for two men accused of shooting two other men on Sunday afternoon during a street fight just north of downtown.

A mother is pleading for answers after her son was killed this weekend on the Eastside.

Three men have been arrested and a fourth person is being sought in connection with the murder of two 16-year-olds in Flagler County.

Witnesses told investigators they heard several gunshots but did not see the shooter.

Bruce Nixon is one of the men convicted in the murder of Reggie and Carol Sumner.

Kevin Williamson, 59, appeared in court and didn’t seem to be fazed by the severity of the charge, even cracking a joke.

Authorities say an employee opened fire at a manufacturing business in western Maryland, leaving three coworkers dead and one other critically injured before the suspect and a state trooper were wounded in a shootout.

A man is back behind bars after leading deputies on a chase after they responded to an assault call Tuesday afternoon.

Members of the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department were caught in the line of fire during what they described as a deadly drive-by shooting that happened Tuesday afternoon on the Westside.

According to the report, Rollins, who is a convicted felony, was arrested and charged with trafficking cocaine, possession of cocaine with intent to sell, possession of a firearm while the commission of a felony, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of ammunition by a convicted felon, and resisting without violence.

What began as a simple traffic stop over a minor infraction on May 31 turned into a drug bust that led to the arrest of two men.

One person is in critical condition after a stabbing on the Westside of Jacksonville, according to JSO.

Police have charged 37-year-old Terrell Lewis with murder.

A man accused of shooting and killing his girlfriend and her adult siblings and then taking his son from the scene -- which prompted an Amber Alert -- is now charged in a separate murder case that took place a month before, according to investigators.

A man accused of shooting and killing his girlfriend and her adult siblings and then kidnapping his son pleaded not guilty Friday to three counts of second-degree murder.

Right now, there are six candidates who are running in the 2023 election and now they may have to gear up for a special election in just a couple of months.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is investigating after a man was shot in an Oakleaf neighborhood Sunday evening.

One person is dead after a shooting early Sunday morning in Lake City.

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A Flagler County man is charged with battery Friday for an altercation with an elderly man at a Palm Coast gas station, authorities said.

A man suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds Tuesday on W. 13th Street between Fairfax Street and Myrtle Avenue, police said.

As the community of Uvalde and the country continue to grieve, here are some images of how the town is trying to cope with and make sense of the tragedy.

Two men from Jacksonville are in the Volusia County Jail accused of a multi-county crime spree involving Apple watches.

Police responded to the shooting right before 6 p.m. Sunday.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s office arrested Christopher Howard, 39, responding to an out of state warrant from Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

One year in jail is the sentence for a Jacksonville man who accidentally shot and killed his 20-year-old preschool teacher girlfriend in 2017.

Prosecutors believe 46-year-old Brian Wedgeworth scammed nearly two dozen women, including a woman from Jacksonville, out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Rafael Vincent Rivera, 50, of Palm Coast, was arrested and charged with aggravated assault on Tuesday afternoon after a case of road rage, according to a report from the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office.

After speaking with civil rights activists – one of whom is a survivor of white supremacy – they say it’s important for everyone to see who this person is, no matter how uncomfortable it may be.

Off-duty officers responded when they heard gunshots Sunday evening.

A man opened fire during a lunch reception at a Southern California church on Sunday before he was stopped in what a sheriff’s official called an act of “exceptional heroism and bravery.”.

A white 18-year-old man is accused of driving to a predominately Black neighborhood and opening fire at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.

Sunday marked 10 years since local non-profit Operation Save Our Sons opened its doors.

A man is dead after arriving at a local hospital with gunshot wounds.

A man and woman are both in a local hospital with life-threatening injuries following a shooting Sunday morning.

A woman is in a local hospital with life-threatening condition after a stabbing in Northwest Jacksonville

The Lake City Police Department on Thursday announced the arrest of a 15-year-old, who’s facing a charge of homicide in the shooting death of a 17-year-old.

A man died of a heart attack in South Carolina while he was burying a woman he strangled, according to the sheriff’s officials.

A man is dead after a shooting in the Sherwood Forest neighborhood, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

This is the second fatal shooting on the north side tonight, but this shooting is not related to the one that happened on Edgewood, which is about seven minutes away.

A man standing at a food truck in a parking lot off Edgewood Avenue West was shot multiple times Saturday when five men armed with pistols and rifles approached him and opened fire, Jacksonville police said.

Police said a 24-year-old man is facing attempted murder and other charges after a shooting Friday afternoon on East 32nd Street in Northwest Jacksonville.

Song Ji-a shot to fame in reality show Single's Inferno, but then had a spectacular fall from grace.

Matthew Harris, a former UCLA instructor, has been arrested in Boulder, Colorado. The arrest comes one day after he allegedly sent an 800-page manifesto with thousands of references to violence to the UCLA Police Department, Boulder police said. Watch more from the police briefing here.

Our morbid fascination with violent crime dates back centuries.

Brazil has a long history of police violence and now authorities are looking at body cameras as a way to avoid deadly incidents involving officers

A trial date has been reset for Feb. 1 for Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, nephew and grandson to two mayors, charged with tax offenses stemming from the collapse of a bank in Bridgeport.

The U.S. attorney’s office late Tuesday asked a federal judge to delay the trial of Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson after a relative of the lead prosecutor on the case suffered a health emergency.

Rising worries about crime among both Democrats and Republicans are starting to create a drag on President Biden’s approval rating, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll — and could signal larger challenges for the president’s party ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

Roof was the first person sentenced to death for a federal hate crime for killing nine Black parishioners.

Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, 51, the grandson and nephew of two legendary Chicago mayors, is expected to plead not guilty to charges stemming from a probe into the collapse of a clout-heavy bank.

Despite clear signs India was being swamped by another surge of coronavirus infections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government refused to cancel a major Hindu festival and held election rallies with thousands of unmasked supporters

“This was a horrific crime that shocked our local community in 1992,” Hobart Police Detective Lt. Nicholas Wardrip said in a statement. “Lofton was born in East Chicago, but moved to Tennessee at an early age. Lofton was interviewed by investigators in September 2020; however, he denied knowing either victim or even being in Indiana at the time of the murders. Investigators utilized DNA technology and interviewed witnesses to bring the case together against Lofton.”

Violent crime went up 20 percent and property crime went up 10 in the second largest city in America this year. It was the first time in 12 years that Los Angeles saw a rise in all categories of crime. Ben Tracy is in the City of Angels with more.

A surprising level of bipartisan consensus is emerging around prison sentencing reform.