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The News4JAX high school football Super 10 will be published on Tuesdays throughout the high school football regular season.

Three decades ago, finding opportunities to learn the Cantonese language in San Francisco wasn’t hard.

Three decades ago, finding opportunities to learn Cantonese in San Francisco wasn't hard. “I think in a few years, when more and more Hong Kong families settle here, there may be more parents worried about their children rejecting Cantonese altogether as they become so immersed in the English environment,” she said.

As families across the state prepare for the impacts of Hurricane Ian, area Ace Hardware stores are making sure their shelves remain fully stocked for customers.

We’re officially through the halfway point of the regular season. Week 5 turned the page to the midway mark. District play ramps up significantly next week and playoff pressures begin ramping up. So, how did Friday night’s football action play out?

Creekside visited Mandarin in the News4JAX Football Friday Game of the Week. Photographer Kevin Nguyen captured the game in this photo gallery.

Mandarin’s offense was moving the ball, and Creekside’s running game had difficulty finding room. But one thing didn’t just tip the field for the Knights, it moved the ball all the way down the field — Creekside’s special teams.

The first year at a new job can be a learning experience. But it doesn’t mean there have to be struggles. With Toby Bullock in his first year as the head coach at Mandarin, the Mustangs are off to a 3-1 start as they prepare for our FootbalL Friday game of the week.

The News4JAX Super 10 high school football rankings are released each Tuesday during the regular season.

Week 2 of the high school football season is in the books. Take a look at Friday night's scoreboard, our television coverage and next week's schedule.

A woman was sentenced to eight years in prison in a case that authorities called a road rage incident that led to the death of a man in 2019, according to Duval County court records.

The high school football season begins on Aug. 19 in Georgia and Aug. 26 in Florida. A glance at schedules for the 2022 high school football season.

Dozens of Duval County school teachers and staff were trained Wednesday on how to help families get back together in the event of a mass shooting or other evacuation emergency.

Some parents voiced concerns Monday about the conditions at Greenland Park — one shared a photo of rusty equipment at the playground on Jacksonville’s Southside.

Doctors at a 24-hour animal critical care center in Jacksonville say they’re seeing an increase in the number of dogs suffering from heat stroke coming into the emergency room.

A local business closed its doors leaving customers with questions about how they will get their pre-paid money back.

While governments may be wary of driverless cars, people want to buy the technology and companies want to cash in.

Stays in China made up only 1% of Airbnb's revenue for the last few years, a source said.

Dozens of coaches and student-athletes from 17 Gateway Conference schools were honored Monday night at the Florida Theater.

Area athletes went out with a bang on Saturday at the high school state track and field championships in Gainesville.

Fleming Island (16-1) is the final local team standing in the flag football state playoffs. Their next task is a daunting one when they face off with Davie Western (17-0) in the Class 2A state semifinals on Friday night at Mandarin.

A popular restaurant in Mandarin is closing shop later this month after serving the community for more than two decades.

Bobby Ramsay is taking on the biggest challenge of his high school football coaching career.

The News4JAX Super 6 softball rankings will be published each Monday through the end of the regular season. Results are through April 10 games.

The News4JAX boys Super 6 lacrosse rankings will be published weekly through the end of the regular season. Records are through April 5 games.

Robert Mclean’s front yard of his Mandarin home was destroyed during a police chase on Friday afternoon.

Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is investigating an undetermined death at Big Tree Lane near the Mandarin area.

An investigation into a road rage incident in Mandarin led to shots being fired at police as they pursed a suspect’s vehicle, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

The News4JAX boys Super 6 lacrosse rankings will be published weekly through the end of the regular season. Records are through March 29 games.

The Super 6 boys high school lacrosse rankings will be published weekly through the end of the regular season. Records are through March 22 games.

The Bob Hayes Invitational track and field meet was missing a big part of its race-day operations, but the show went on Saturday at Raines High School.

A crash involving a truck and a pedestrian on Old St. Augustine Road and Princess Labeth Court is under investigation Friday morning.

It was a good night for boys soccer teams in the area.

A woman was found dead Monday at a home in Mandarin, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

Days after News4JAX reported about an Instagram page labeled as coming from Darnell-Cookman School of the Medical Arts that included photos of students using the bathroom, the page’s content was removed from the social media platform.

A glance at the first-round matchups. All games are 7 p.m. unless indicated. Seeds and records listed.

Chef Dennis Chan invited us into his “magical” kitchen as he frosted his award winning Mandarin cake while explaining some of the traditions of the Chinese New Year. He explained that each year is said to be aligned with an animal…this year is the Year of the Tiger. Chef Dennis said that the foods to eat to bring luck and well being for the new year are peanuts, a whole chicken, shrimp and fish.

The final signing period for high school football athletes begins Wednesday when players can sign letters of intent with colleges.

Kim’s Korean BBQ brings authentic Korean cuisine to Jacksonville in a way that only a Korean family could.

Dozens of contracts signed in recent years ensure China's growing footprint, even as major Western companies, including the U.S., plot their exit.

The News4JAX Super 6 girls basketball rankings will be published each Tuesday during the regular season. Records are through Jan. 17.

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

The Mandarin boys soccer team is 9-1 and riding an eight-game winning streak. It handed Bolles its lone loss of the season and enters Wednesday’s showdown with Stanton in what could be a glimpse of a Gateway Conference final.

The Mustangs promoted offensive coordinator Toby Bullock to the head coaching position on Thursday morning, keeping the job in-house after parting ways with Bobby Ramsay last month.

School teachers do some of the most important work across the country, both inside and outside the classroom. One Kentucky teacher proved just that by checking in on each of her young students after tornadoes devastated their town. Lilia Luciano reports.

CNBC interviewed 10 current and former employees of Chinese tech firms to find out what work life is like in their Singapore offices.

If you're traveling through Mandarin and make a stop in the Coventry neighborhood, you'll see the home of one Mandarin family creating sweet memories this holiday season.

The News4JAX Super 6 girls basketball rankings will be published each Tuesday during the regular season with the exception of a break for the holidays. Records are through Dec. 6.

China is launching an aggressive campaign to promote Mandarin, saying 85% of its citizens will use the national language by 2025.

China is launching an aggressive campaign to promote Mandarin, saying 85% of its citizens will use the national language by 2025. The move appears to put threatened Chinese regional dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien under even greater pressure, along with minority languages such as Tibetan, Mongolian and Uyghur. The order issued Tuesday by the State Council, China’s Cabinet, said use of Mandarin, known in Chinese as “putonghua" or the “common tongue," remains “unbalanced and inadequate” and needs to be improved to meet the demands of the modern economy.

The Mandarin football team is parting ways with head coach Bobby Ramsay just three years after a state championship, the school announced in a release.

Mandarin’s Gage Hulbert won a state title in the 100 fly and Creekside’s Grace Gavin added to the Knights’ sterling tradition by winning an individual title in the 100 back in the Class 4A state tournament.

A glance at Thursday night's high school football scoreboard.

The first round of the high school volleyball playoffs are in the books.

The high school football season is in full swing and News4Jax has you covered. The Super 10 rankings will be a fixture on Tuesday’s during the regular season. All games are Friday at 7 p.m. unless indicated. District games indicated by an *.

The News4Jax Super 6 high school volleyball poll will be published each Thursday during the regular season. With district tournaments beginning next week, this is the final rankings of the season.

Residents of a Mandarin neighborhood say their cars were burglarized overnight -- one woman saying all of her credit cards were taken.

Britain’s Emma Raducanu, who surprised the world with her U.S. Open win, is sharing her excitement with a special message in Mandarin.

Many minority cultures in China face a stark choice: Assimilate into Han culture or reject it and get left behind. The Yi want to find a 'third way.'

Danke, a Chinese residential rental company, has a debt-dependent business model that is showing signs of strain. Debt-fueled growthRenters who work with Danke often pay monthly installments to the company's banking partners after taking out a loan. In 2019, 65.9% of Danke's tenants had rent-financing agreements in place, according to a company filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Media reports in China have begun to raise questions about Danke's financial health. Rival Qingke employs a similar business model with tenants taking out loans and paying a year's worth of rent upfront.

BEIJING — As China's leaders get ready to release their national development plan for the next five years, some government advisors emphasize the priority is building up China's domestic strength. "China's economy needs to continue to develop. He is also honorary dean of the National School of Development at Peking University, and formerly the chief economist of the World Bank. The greater emphasis on the domestic Chinese market is part of a new term — "dual circulation" — that has emerged as leaders deliberate on the next five-year development plan set to kick off in 2021. Many economists predict China will surpass the U.S. as the world's largest economy in the next several years, when the 14th five-year plan will be in place.

A senior Chinese government official challenged President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, accusing him of wasting weeks after the threat posed by the virus first became apparent. In a wide-ranging interview with NBC News conducted in Mandarin on Tuesday, Executive Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng also hit back at the politicization of the virus. Instead, he termed the virus a "natural disaster" and called for greater cooperation and an end to accusations. Chinese Executive Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng attends the Universal Periodic Review of China before the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council on November 6, 2018 in Geneva. FABRICE COFFRINI | AFP via Getty ImagesA memorial for Dr Li Wenliang, who was one of the whistleblowers of Covid-19 when it first emerged in Wuhan, China and caused the doctor's death.

On Monday, he appeared in red inmate garb and spoke through a Mandarin interpreter. He told the judge that he understood the terms of the agreement and that he was guilty. It did not appear that he had family or other supporters in the room.

Some included QR codes formatted for WeChat and Alipay, ubiquitous apps used in mainland China for chatting and online payment. Hong Kong protesters have mobilized around an extradition bill that would have allowed suspected criminals to be deported to mainland China, which many Hong Kongers see as a threat to the freedom of speech and rule of law that Hong Kong currently has. But the messaging of Sundays march expanded far beyond the extradition law, touching on multiple issues censored in mainland China. ALSO:First Hong Kong protested. In Hong Kong, one protester pulls off his mask and defines a movement A new kind of Hong Kong activism emerges as protesters mobilize without any leaders

Prince William speaks Mandarin in Chinese New Year message The Duke of Cambridge has posted a video message to the people of China wishing them a happy new year. Prince William is set to visit China next month, and he's clearly been brushing up on his Mandarin.