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The Neptune Beach Police Department on Tuesday night asked for help tracking down a man who investigators said is blind.

The playoffs have provided an interesting look at a few of the Jaguars' requested head coaching candidates. Just like in the game on the field, there were some clear winners and losers last weekend among coaches.

A day after Jacksonville’s parade for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., there’s a rift between local Republicans and parade organizers.

More than a dozen people, including children, were rescued from human trafficking in 2021, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday.

When the Florida Department of Health opted to suspend contact tracing in Duval County Public Schools Friday, it left families concerned about the rapid spread of COVID-19′s omicron variant confused — and wondering how to surveil a disease that can be transferred between asymptomatic patients.

A German shepherd service dog is recovering this week after it shot with an arrow this weekend in Oceanway.

Feeding Northeast Florida picked up thousands of items donated in the Positivley JAX food drive on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

New test results show elevated bacteria levels in Pottsburg Creek, where a pump malfunctioned over the weekend at a wastewater site on Holiday Road, the News4JAX I-TEAM has learned.

Cleveland Browns defensive tackle Malik McDowell has been arrested in Florida on charges of beating a police officer and public exposure.

A total of 42 guns were confiscated at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints at Jacksonville International Airport last year, according to TSA.

Patients interested in receiving monoclonal antibodies were ready and waiting Tuesday morning outside a new treatment center on Jacksonville’s Southside before the doors even opened at 9 a.m.

An early morning apartment complex fire in Mandarin left multiple units badly damaged with 10 families in need of assistance from the Red Cross.

A St. Augustine man died following a Sunday night crash on Interstate 95 in St. Johns County.

State regulators and inspectors at Jacksonville’s utility company are investigating a stinky situation that could be an environmental hazard to local waterways.

With the current spread of COVID-19, if you haven’t had the virus, you likely know someone who has it now or has in the past.

Jacksonville leaders are speaking out about the ongoing controversy involving large car clubs around the city.

Following his arrest over the weekend, Alexander Acs told investigators he killed someone in an Orlando apartment last week with a piece of asphalt, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

The state of Florida will open five additional monoclonal antibody treatment sites — including one in Jacksonville — starting Tuesday.

Two Jacksonville brothers are safe after narrowly escaping a fire in their home in the New Town neighborhood early Monday morning.

A man was found dead inside a Brentwood home Monday night after police received word of someone being shot.

Hundreds of people gathered Monday in downtown Jacksonville for the 41st annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade.

Help feed a local family by donating to the Positively JAX food drive, benefiting Feeding Northeast Florida.

News4JAX has compiled a county-by-county list of events happening on Monday.

A 28-year Navy veteran, Arron Sterling, and Louis Pasderetz died in a plane crash on Jacksonville’s Westside one day after Christmas. The plane crashed as they were flying back to Herlong Recreational Airport.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is piecing together what led up to a triple shooting that left one person dead and two others hurt in Brentwood on Saturday night.

Eight years after her son’s shooting death, viral rap music videos have opened old wounds for Tonya Love.

Dozens of local electricians sacrificed a day off to make repairs to a local baseball field that was ransacked by thieves last year.

29 JEA team members are heading north on Saturday to help restore power in areas that would need it depending on the impact of the snow and ice.

Timing is everything and the winter storm that will seriously impact the mountains areas from Georgia to New England, will time out perfectly here in Jacksonville. The anticipated downpours will most likely take place <i>overnight Saturday and into sunrise Sunday</i>. It won’t just end there, as gusty winds to nearly 40 mph will follow the rains, along with chilly temperatures.

News4JAX on Friday obtained the National Transportation Safety Board’s preliminary report on the Dec. 26 plane crash on the Westside that killed a Navy sailor and a veteran.

The News4JAX I-TEAM is working to get more answers to your concerns about trash troubles in Jacksonville.

Dozens of families are reaching out to the News4JAX I-TEAM following an investigation into rising rent in Jacksonville.

Brent Brown was indicted with 17 counts of failing to remit to the IRS payroll taxes withheld from employees of Latitude 360.

Federal officials are investigating numerous complaints related to Center for COVID Control, the company that had been operating a rapid COVID-19 testing site in downtown Jacksonville, the News4JAX I-TEAM learned Friday.

Some cities are so shorthanded they have temporarily stopped collecting things like recyclables or oversized junk to focus on the grosser, smellier stuff.

Some cities are so shorthanded they have temporarily stopped collecting things like recyclables or oversized junk to focus on the grosser, smellier stuff.

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.

He turned $30 into $1,000,000.

A COVID-19 testing company with a location in downtown Jacksonville has suspended operations.

The omicron variant is sickening so many sanitation workers around the U.S. that some cities have had to delay or suspend garbage and recycling pickup, angering residents shocked that governments can’t perform this most basic of functions.

Total COVID-19 pediatric hospitalizations in Florida reached a new high, according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data posted Friday.

A warehouse in downtown Jacksonville will transform into a new street market this weekend. The organizer says he wanted to give the building a different purpose while giving new opportunities to the people who work there.

According to Feeding Northeast Florida, roughly 237,000 people in Jacksonville and its surrounding counties are food insecure, meaning they don’t have consistent, reliable access to nutritious food.

A COVID-19 testing company with a location in downtown Jacksonville has suspended operations.

The News4JAX I-TEAM is investigating more complaints about car groups that are damaging large parking lots around the Jacksonville area.

An investigation by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Major Case Narcotics Unit aimed at dismantling a local drug trafficking organizations has netted 27 felony arrests, Sheriff Mike Williams revealed during a Thursday news conference.

A Jacksonville man found guilty in a double ax murder in 1999 will get a new trial after his conviction was thrown out.

To honor what would have been beloved actress Betty White's 100th birthday, Jacksonville's Animal Care and Protective Services is challenging citizens to help the shelter reach 100 adoptions this weekend.

The city of Jacksonville Building Code Adjustment Board on Thursday is set to discuss what’s next for the Berkman Plaza II building, which has had its implosion pushed back time and time again.

There is no end in sight for the suspension of curbside recycling pickup in Jacksonville.

The Police Athletic League of Jacksonville wants to draw attention to the sport of boxing, while honoring a late member of the community who loved the sport.

A popular seafood restaurant on Jacksonville's Northside caught fire Thursday morning. Firefighters battled a blaze at Junior's Seafood on North Main Street, north of Zoo Parkway.

In 2001, the founder of Mitticool ceramics learned many of his customers in India don't have regular access to electricity. So he invented a fridge made out of clay. It keeps food 8 degrees cooler than the outside air, but it doesn't need any electricity to run. And while other ceramics companies in the region shut down, Mitticool is thriving thanks to the success of the powerless, eco-friendly fridge.

If a 40-point drubbing at New England didn’t get Jacksonville owner Shad Khan’s full attention, then what’s being planned for the team's season finale just might. Frustrated fans are revolting against the Jaguars and have Khan in their crosshairs. Hundreds, if not thousands, have changed their social media profile pics to a clown donning Khan’s signature mustache.

Trevor Lawrence broke Gardner Minshew's rookie passing yards record with a 40-yard bomb to Laquon Treadwell vs. the New England Patriots.

James and Jennifer Crumbley once lived in Atlantic Beach, and James attended Fletcher High School in the 1990s.

Carla Lowe had last been seen waiting for a train at an Amtrak station in Delray Beach but she never made it on board.

Banned from the Florida hospital room where her mother lay dying of COVID-19, Jayden Arbelaez pitched an idea to construction employees working nearby. “Is there any way that I could get there?” Arbelaez asked them, pointing to a small third-story window of the hospital in Jacksonville. The workers gave the 17-year-old a yellow vest, boots, a helmet and a ladder to climb onto a section of roof so she could look through the window and see her mother, Michelle Arbelaez, alive one last time.

President Biden has portrayed the Afghan airlift as a mission to save heroes who aided America. But it’s more complicated than that.

Prosecutors said all it took was a motorized boat.

Hope Ervin, 21, from Galesburg, Illinois, told FOX News that when she recently adopted a dog, she also received a meaningful poem with her new pet’s records.

The Texas Supreme Court rejected Gov. Greg Abbott's intervention to suspend a mask mandate, thus allowing schools to require students to wear masks as per the mandates by local authorities, according to a CNN report.

Senior pastor George Davis said four out of the six who died were under the age of 35.

Senior pastor George Davis said four out of the six who died were under the age of 35.

"Four of them were under the age of 35. All of them were healthy and the only thing they had in common was they were not vaccinated," the pastor said.

A North Carolina man was sentenced today to 420 months, or 35 years, in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for enticing and sexually abusing a minor. Emilio Moran, 39, of Jacksonville, pleaded guilty on Aug. 17, 2020, to sexual abuse of a minor and enticement of a minor to engage in unlawful sexual activity. Moran, a former U.S. Marine, used text messages and gifts to entice the minor into the illicit sexual relationship, and he took cellphone videos of some of the sexual abuse. The sexual relationship ended when it was reported to investigators with the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.

Tropical Storm Elsa tore through Jacksonville, Fla., and southeast Georgia on Wednesday, leaving one person dead in its wake.

A 14-year-old boy becomes the youngest athlete with Down Syndrome to complete a mini-triathlon after finding inspiration from his role model.

Chafie Fields of Wasserman Sports will now represent the NFL star as he looks to sign a lucrative deal next offseason.

When the city of St. Petersburg asked the state to light up the Sunshine Skyway bridge in rainbow colors for LGBTQ Pride month last year, the request was denied. The decision was mildly controversial — Democratic Rep. Charlie Crist wrote a letter to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis about it. Crist’s office didn’t get a response. The St. Pete Pride parade was canceled because of the pandemic, Pride month came and went, and other institutions glowed with rainbows. But not the Skyway.

The lights were changed to blue one day after the Pride Month display began.

The decision on the Acosta Bridge in Jacksonville, Fla., which came after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a much-debated transgender girls sports ban on the first day of Pride Month, appears to have been reversed Wednesday amid mounting blowback.

A Jacksonville police officer with a rifle on his back was attacked by multiple people on Thursday night as he tried to disperse a crowd of people.

The NFL's expanded regular-season schedule is now a reality, with the league on Wednesday announcing a slate that includes 17 games for all 32 teams.

After all, it restricts the ability of Floridians to cast ballots in key ways.

In her first 100 days, Kamala Harris has put a heavy emphasis on issues of race and inequity. “The truth is inequity has become the norm,” she says.

In her first 100 days, Kamala Harris has put a heavy emphasis on issues of race and inequity. “The truth is inequity has become the norm,” she says.

It was already considered a done deal, but now Trevor Lawrence is officially headed to Jacksonville.

The Jacksonville Jaguars’ top brass took some time out of their busy schedule leading up to the 2021 NFL Draft and visited the USS Delbert D. Black station in the city’s naval base.

Before anyone tackles investing, there are a few steps to take to be ready, said CFP Carolyn McClanahan, an M.D. The best way to start saving is to make sure deposits are made automatically. You can start small, saving $25 or $50 a month, and then increase it over time as you can. "You should start investing young and doing as much as you comfortably can." When you have a little bit of money, it's important to be in a broad-based, diversified portfolio, McClanahan said.

The former subcontractor, William Thompson, 56, of Sneads Ferry, North Carolina, previously pleaded guilty to one count of obstruction of justice. Public Official 1 was a civilian employee of the U.S. Marine Corps who directed the procurement of information technology services and equipment to be used by the Marine Corps at MCBCL and elsewhere. In March 2018, agents of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), FBI, and IRS-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) interviewed Thompson. At the time of the interview, the investigation was covert and not known to all subjects, including Public Official 1. This case was investigated by the FBI, Department of Defense Office of Inspector General, NCIS, Naval Audit Service, and IRS-CI.

Jacksonville, Florida — A group of activists and lawyers is calling for Florida authorities to drop charges against a Black woman who said she was acting in self-defense when she shot and wounded an officer during a raid on her home last year. The report said Ford shot one of the officers with a handgun before running to the bathroom and calling 911. "You don't allow Black women to protect themselves. So we are here to ask you to protect Black women," said Tray Johns, executive director of Dignity Power, which helps formerly incarcerated women. Johns said prosecutors need to protect Black women and drop the charges against Ford.

In Jacksonville, Florida, thousands of children are not getting enough to eat and teachers are stepping in to help them. Anthony Winters, a guidance counselor, sees hungry students every day. His lesson plan is to fight food insecurity for students who may go hungry over the weekend. The number of American children facing food insecurity has doubled from 14% to 28%, according to a Northwestern University study. "Sometimes I be hungry and I be going in the back and see what they have there," said Jayden, who is 8 years old.

Cleveland Browns Quarterback Baker Mayfield (6) hands off to Cleveland Browns Running Back Nick Chubb (24) during the game between the Cleveland Browns and the Jacksonville Jaguars on November 29, 2020 at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Fl. NFL officials have publicly stated the league is against playing in bubble environments, with mental health a primary concern. Under this model, playoff clubs would remain in-market but stay at hotels the entire week leading up to playoff games. The people said keeping clubs in hotels would allow the NFL to better monitor teams while also keeping players and staff near families. One of the individuals pointed to the Aug. 12 through Aug. 20 testing report when the NFL reported no positive cases among players, to support installing the model.

And in 2018, the county voted for a Democrat for governor for the first time in decades. Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s choice of California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate has helped his pitch to Black voters, she noted. “If the Black vote in Duval turns out, it’s not because Duval is special — it’s because Duval is reflective of the Black vote across the state and across the country,” Binder said. Steve Schale, a Florida Democratic strategist, said views of the state’s politics often discount Black voters in the north. Closer to the coast in Duval, Trump signs and flags become more apparent in yards and on trucks and boats.

Donald Trump said he met with six Gold Star families while holding a campaign rally in Jacksonville on Wednesday night. Trump also shared his thoughts on how to fight Zika. See the GOP presidential candidate's full remarks.

An air search resumes for an American cargo ship that vanished during Hurricane Joaquin. Searchers found a massive debris field, but it is unclear if it came from the El Faro. The ship was sailing from Jacksonville to San Juan, Puerto Rico, through the Bermuda Triangle. Mark Strassmann reports from Jacksonville, Florida, where relatives of crew members are waiting for word.

Vietnam veteran finally a citizen after legal nightmare Mario Hernandez, who believed for decades that he was an American citizen, took his oath of citizenship in Jacksonville, Florida. Charlie Rose reports.