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The future of Jacksonville’s confederate monuments will again be a topic discussed at Tuesday night’s city council meeting.

A pickup truck collided with a Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department tanker truck at the intersection of Monument and McMormick roads on Friday.

Both the vehicle and motorcycle were traveling north on Monument Road before crashing into each other.

As of Thursday, it remained unclear what might happen to the Confederate monument that sits in Springfield Park.

Millions of U.S. workers now have a Jan. 4 deadline to get a COVID vaccine.

Three members of the Jacksonville City Council say they support the removing of the Confederate monument at Springfield Park, which it was recently revealed could cost more than $1 million to do.

A juvenile confessed to vandalizing a monument in Spring Park in Green Cove Springs that is dedicated to U.S. service members who were killed in action, the Green Cove Springs Police Department announced Thursday.

A top European Union court has annulled the EU’s approval of 3.4 billion euros ($4.1 billion) in state aid for the Dutch carrier KLM.

A top European Union court dealt another blow to Ryanair on Wednesday and rejected the low-cost carrier’s arguments that the aid Sweden, Denmark and Finland gave two other airlines to get through the COVID-19 crisis was illegal.

BRUNSWICK, Ga. – Leaders of a Georgia city have voted to remove a Confederate monument from a park where it has stood since 1902. Commissioners in the port city of Brunswick voted 4-1 to take the monument out of Hanover Square. Officials had debated what to do about the monument since July. Brunswick Mayor Cornell Harvey says the monument will initially be moved into storage. The city hasn’t found a new home for it, but the mayor says perhaps a museum might be willing to take it.

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. Crews in St. Augustine have removed the top pillar that sat on the oldest Confederate memorial in Florida. Commissioners in St. Augustine voted 3-2 earlier this month to relocate the monument to the Trout Creek Fish Camp. City Manager John Regan had reviewed proposals to relocate the monument and recommended the site at the fish camp, which was offered by the propertys owner, Randy Ringhaver. On Monday, a statue of Confederate Gen. William Loring that was located feet away was removed. The University of Florida, which owns the property where the Loring monument stood, relocated the statue to a private property.