Kimberly Kessler, who is serving a life sentence for killing her former co-worker, Joleen Cummings, is asking for her murder conviction to be thrown out.

The workshop gave the first look at a potential timeline for public school consolidation in Duval County.

The former top aide to ex-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has painted a picture of widespread chaos and dysfunction in government during the coronavirus pandemic.

Eleven people were hurt when a walkway collapsed during an annual event that encourages tours of Maine lighthouses.

A member of the Oath Keepers who traveled to Washington before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol testified Wednesday about a massive cache of weapons the far-right extremist group stashed in a Virginia hotel room.

Tony Cummings, one of four Democrats in the field, said he wants to be sheriff “because the city of Jacksonville has been hemorrhaging from violent crime.”

Minutes after she got the justice she had been praying for in the 3½ years following the disappearance of her 34-year-old daughter, Ann Johnson offered a message for her daughter’s killer.

A day after denying a defense motion to suppress evidence, including the purchase of an electric knife, Judge James Daniel also denied a motion from Kimberly Kessler’s attorney to have her undergo another mental competency evaluation.

The judge presiding over the Nassau County murder case against Kimberly Kessler, who is accused of killing her co-worker Joleen Cummings, is determined to proceed with a December trial, even as the defense files more motions challenging aspects of the state’s case.

The crowded race for Jacksonville sheriff in 2023 got another new name this week when Democrat Tony Cummings threw his hat in the ring.

A former top aide to Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the British leader was dismissive of the threat posed by surging coronavirus cases last year.

British Health Secretary Matt Hancock has defended his handling of the coronavirus pandemic following a series of damaging allegations from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s former top adviser.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has rejected claims by his former chief aide that he botched Britain’s coronavirus response and is unfit for office.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s former chief aide has lashed out at the government he once served, saying people died “in horrific circumstances” during the coronavirus pandemic because of its failed response.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is being accused of overseeing a chaotic government whose failure to act quickly against the coronavirus caused thousands of unnecessary deaths.

Amid speculation that he would leave government, Cummings late Thursday night told the BBC that he planned to be “largely redundant” by Christmas. Political commentators had suggested Cummings would step down after one of his allies was denied an appointment as Johnson’s chief of staff. His position weakened earlier this year after he drove hundreds of miles across England after contracting COVID-19, violating national lockdown rules. The episode fueled complaints from senior members of Johnson’s Conservative Party that Cummings and other unelected advisers in the prime minister’s Downing Street office were effectively running the government, sidelining ministers and Parliament. “And certainly in the relationship between the Downing Street machine and the parliamentary party, there’s been a very strong sense that that has been lacking in recent months.”

Prime Minister Boris Johnson's senior aide Dominic Cummings leaves his north London home, Monday May 25, 2020. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is standing by his top aide, Cummings, who is accused of breaking lockdown rules by traveling 250 miles (400 km) to his parents house while coming down with COVID-19. (Aaron Chown/PA via AP)LONDON British leader Boris Johnsons powerful chief aide insisted Monday that he wouldn't resign for driving the length of England while the country was under strict lockdown a trip he made without informing the prime minister first. The U.K. is gradually easing its lockdown, initially by allowing more outdoor recreation. Stephen Reicher, a social psychologist who sits on a group advising the government, said more people are going to die because the episode would undermine adherence to the lockdown rules.

House budget chief Travis Cummings called the agreement on affordable-housing a major achievement. For years, legislators have used affordable-housing tax dollars, which are collected through real-estate sales, for non-housing programs to balance the state budget. The House and Senate also agreed to a 3-percent across-the-board pay raise for all state employees, Senate Budget Chief Rob Bradley, R-Fleming Island, said. The governor asked the Republican-dominated Legislature to approve a $602 million plan that would set a minimum salary of $47,500 for public school teachers. The House plan would fund 174 new employees and move one-fifth of prisons to the 8.5-hour shifts, according to its budget proposal.

PUTNAM COUNTY, Fla. – It’s been more than a decade since HaLeigh Cummings vanished at age 5, but her family and the Putnam County community still cling to hope and wish for her return home. HaLeigh was last known to be sleeping in bed on Feb. 9, 2009, next to her little brother, Ronald Cummings Jr. or “Junior,” with her father’s girlfriend, 17-year-old Misty Croslin, who was babysitting while HaLeigh’s father, Ronald Cummings, was working an evening shift at his job. When Cummings returned to his mobile home in Satsuma, his daughter was gone. Croslin said she fell asleep and when she woke up the following morning, HaLeigh wasn’t there. SPECIAL COVERAGE: Haleigh Cummings section“The rear door of the residence was found to be open,” then-Putnam County Sheriff Jeff Hardy said hours after the search began.