Blue Zones Project launches in JAX to promote healthier lifestyles across Jacksonville
The Blue Zones challenge app is designed to help you live a better, healthier and happier life. It launches in Jacksonville Saturday, June 3 and Duval County residents get a subscription for free. It's the first offering of its kind in the country.
State opens investigation following death of man who went days without medication in Duval County jail
Records show the city signed a $98 million contract for healthcare at the jail with a corporation that had been convicted just weeks earlier of letting an inmate die by dehydration at a Wisconsin jail and falsifying records to conceal it.
SOUND OFF: Have your Bud Light buying habits changed amid backlash to transgender influencer promo?
Sales of Bud Light products in Jacksonville have plummeted in recent weeks, according to a report from the New York Times, following calls for a boycott by conservative figures after the beerโs partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
Channel 4 news anchor Tom Wills shares his special memories of Mary Baer and John Gaughan
I'd like to share with you a couple of my John and Mary memories. I want to start with some of the very first comments that former news anchor Deborah Gianoulis and I made about Mary 30 years ago--and we stand by them today. "Mary Baer has fit into our newsroom from the first day she got here. It seems like she's been here all along."
Colleagues and friends of Mary Baer and John Gaughan say good-bye and thank you
Mary Baer and John Gaughan have belonged to this community for 30 years, and it's a big sacrifice to work until 11:30 at night -- or, come into work -- when you're telling everyone else to shelter in place during a storm. Also, to share, in the joy and the sadness in the stories you tell. They have served you so well. But Mary and John also belong to us here at News4JAX, as colleagues and friends. The conversations that happen OFF AIR -- have created relationships that will last a lifetime.
โHe had a heart of goldโ: Former studio manager at WJXT, John Cermack, dies unexpectedly
Former WJXT floor director, John Cermack, also known by his nickname "Smack", died unexpectedly Thursday night due to an accident. He had worked for Graham Media Group for more than 18 years and was most recently working with the engineering team at WSLS in Roanoke.
Records confirm man did not receive heart transplant medicine in Duval County Jail. He died days later
Records from the Jacksonville Sheriffโs Office confirm a Jacksonville man did not receive any doses of an essential medication while at the Duval County Jail on a misdemeanor charge in November. After spending a weekend in jail, Dexter Barry, 54, died a few days after being released.
LIVE: Local sheriffs, mayor-elect Deegan address growing issue of violence against law enforcement officers
Local sheriffs and Jacksonvilleโs next mayor on Wednesday evening are set to hold a news conference to discuss what they are saying is a growing issue of violence against law enforcement officers.
โWe want answersโ: No arrests 1 year after Raines High football star gunned down at graduation party
Rashaud Fields was shot and killed one year ago at a graduation party just a few hours after he received his diploma from Raines High School. There is a $13,000 reward for information that lands the person responsible in jail, but no arrests have been announced.
Former JEA executives in federal court for hearing ahead of October trial
Lawyers for two former JEA executives facing federal charges in connection with the attempted sale of the utility spent over two hours at a hearing Thursday morning questioning the FBI special agent who led the investigation, about how the case was built.