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The family of Thony Roy, who Jacksonville police in January said got into a fight with a co-worker of the Southside Dave and Buster’s, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit, seeking in excess of $50,000 in damages.

The new JEA building is up and running, but the question of if the electric company is going to be sold still looms.

The murder of 13-year-old Tristyn Bailey on Mother’s Day 2021 has impacted the entire community of Durbin Crossing in St. Johns County.

An event Friday morning was held to remember Tyre Sampson, the teenager who died last year when he fell off an attraction at Orlando’s ICON Park, News4JAX sister station WKMG ClickOrlando reports.

Tristyn Bailey's family spoke at a news conference Friday with the state attorney and St. Johns County sheriff after Tristyn's killer was sentenced to life in prison.

Groups that pay attention to political news are often those who benefit from politics.

Nearly one year ago, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a new law placing strict new rules on what books and media can be made available to public school students.

At its statewide conference in Orlando, member organizations of the Florida NAACP voted unanimously to recommend that the national NAACP board issue a nationwide travel advisory against moving or visiting the Sunshine State.

An arrest was made in a Tuesday afternoon shooting that caused a man to die from his life-threatening injuries, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday.

The Duval County School Police Department on Wednesday arrested a longtime music teacher at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts accused of lewd conduct involving a student, district officials said.

Firefighters were called Wednesday morning to a fire in a tank at an asphalt plant on Talleyrand Avenue, the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department said.

The second day of the Aiden Fucci's sentencing hearing Wednesday began with victim impact statements, including from Tristyn Bailey’s best friend and six members of her family: three of her four siblings, her parents and one of her grandmothers.

U.S. cases of a dangerous fungus tripled over just three years, and more than half of states have now reported it, according to a new study.

A man was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after being shot Tuesday afternoon in San Jose, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said.

The leader of a deadly fentanyl trafficking operation in Southeast Georgia will spend the next 22 years in federal prison.

The Lake City Police Department said Tuesday that a warrant was issued for the arrest of a man accused of stabbing a 49-year-old with a pitchfork.

More than 22 months after 13-year-old Tristyn Bailey was found stabbed to death on May 9, 2021, in Durbin Crossing, her killer’s sentencing hearing begins Tuesday.

Clay County Sheriff Michelle Cook on Monday announced the rollout of the agency’s newest tool: drones.

Ahead of Aiden Fucci’s sentencing, the defense filed several late motions Friday on his behalf, and there was a hearing Monday afternoon on those motions.

Florida is bracing for a massive seaweed blob that’s coming for its coast.

A new campaign announced Saturday, called Vote Local Now, is aimed at getting more people to the polls, especially African American voters.

Local law enforcement can now begin enforcing a new Duval County ordinance designed to stop panhandling in medians, along sidewalks, and in public rights-of-way along roadways.

The family of a Putnam County mail carrier fatally attacked by dogs in August is now demanding accountability.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office this weekend will welcome its first female homicide sergeant.

After his son was injured in a violent attack at Switzerland Point Middle School, Mark Alvelo spoke out to the St. Johns County School Board during its meeting Monday, calling for action.

A man was found shot to death Wednesday morning in an Arlington parking lot, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said.

Two house fires in a remote, rural area of Clay County are being investigated as arson after county officials say they found evidence of a targeted attack.

Hate crimes reported in America are showing an alarming rise again, according to a revised report from the FBI documenting 2021 cases.

It appears a group of husky puppies was enjoying the cold temperatures so much on Tuesday that they just had to escape their home and explore the outdoors.

A winter storm is dumping heavy, wet snow in parts of the Northeast, causing power outages to tens of thousands, widespread closures of schools and government offices, dangerous driving conditions and a plane to slide off a taxiway.

The statistics are frightening. Approximately 400,000 hospitalized patients in the United States experience some type of preventable harm each year. One-quarter die from these errors. And medical errors cost roughly $20 billion a year. The numbers are higher worldwide.

Michael Renard Jackson was sentenced Monday to life in prison without parole for the rape and murder of 25-year-old Andrea Boyer in 2007.

Police say they’re noticing a pattern of guns, drugs and gang members at Jacksonville-area vacation rentals.

Early voting is underway in the first election for Jacksonville’s mayor and other local offices.

The head of Duval County Public Schools’ instructional materials and media services submitted her letter of resignation from the leadership role, according to documents obtained by News4JAX.

A Senate panel on Thursday moved Florida one step closer to allowing people to carry concealed firearms without licenses, as critics on opposite sides took aim at the proposal.

Mike Linkenauger, who was arrested on sexual battery charges in 2020, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison.

A new database to register people at risk for going missing is now live in Jacksonville.

One of the American survivors from the kidnapping in Mexico is expected back home Wednesday, according to her mother.

A man wanted on a warrant after a 20-month-old girl died in December was arrested over the weekend, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office announced Monday.

Emerson Street at Interstate 95 was closed Monday afternoon due to structural damage, police said.

A man who was convicted of shooting a former Jacksonville Jaguars player could’ve been released from prison too soon after his sentence was modified from life to 27 years.

About 20 cars of a Norfolk Southern cargo train derailed near Springfield Saturday evening, the second derailment of the company’s trains in Ohio in a month, officials said.

Two organizations worked together to provide books to children that are banned at schools in Florida and Duval County.

A 67-year-old woman was robbed Friday afternoon in the parking lot of the Fresh Market on A1A in Ponte Vedra Beach, the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office said.

The father of Kamiyah Mobley, a baby whose kidnapping from a Jacksonville hospital right after birth in 1998 made national headlines, said his family is facing another tragedy.

The Savannah Bananas are in Jacksonville this weekend, playing two rounds of their viral brand of Banana Ball.

The father of Kamiyah Mobley, a baby whose kidnapping from a Jacksonville hospital right after birth in 1998 made national headlines, said his family is facing another tragedy.

The Savannah Bananas are in Jacksonville, this weekend, playing two rounds of its viral brand of Banana Ball.

A 17-year-old Ribault High School student is facing multiple charges in connection with a deadly double shooting Wednesday morning in Arlington, according to an arrest report from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.

A man was quietly resentenced last year to 27 years in prison in the 2008 shooting that left a Jacksonville Jaguars player paralyzed and could be released in less than 15 years.

The stock index, which has risen on a global rally, jumps as the pound drops against the dollar.

The plane had flown from The Gambia to the West Sussex airport on 7 December.

Backstreet Boys star Nick Carter blames "addiction and mental illness" for the death of his sibling.

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Ukrainian art is put on show at Wembley Stadium with the aim to keep the war in the public eye.

The employee had worked at Silver Dollar City since 2017.

The 71-year-old broadcaster's wife pays tribute to her husband, saying "he will forever be with us".

The podcast host, who has incurable bowel cancer, tells the BBC she feels "utterly loved".

The musician, also known as Bonehead, co-founded the band and played on albums such as Be Here Now.

The weather conditions will make it feel more like football season than opening day for baseball at Wrigley Field when the Chicago Cubs face the Milwaukee Brewers.

Bosses at the famous Sheffield venue said on Thursday they had been served with an eviction notice.

A false tweet really does move faster than the truth.

Russia's crackdown shows how a term popularized to describe disinformation in the 2016 US election has turned into a cudgel for authoritarians.

The Catholic leader criticized misinformation, but added: "We must respect the doubts, the concerns and the questions that people raise."

New slots for Coronation Street and Emmerdale are among the changes announced by the network.

Flights are cancelled and power cuts reported in south-eastern US states amid heavy snow and ice.

While sewage plants have reduced contributions to waterways through permits, addressing pollution from farms largely depends on voluntary efforts.

He follows Andrew Neil out of the door after previously working at the BBC for 17 years.

The American's five-month-old son Zen died after having had a brain tumour, he said on his show.

The 1Xtra DJ will be leaving after nine years at the network.

Director Steven Spielberg on why all the film's Latinx characters had to come from that community.

On her third metal-detecting trip, Milly finds a Bronze Age hoard dating from about 1300BC.

The star's management company will select this year's song after the UK came bottom last year.

People in England going away for half term will be able to book lateral flow tests, the government says.

The deal will allow the UK firm's Rotherham plant - which has been closed since spring - to reopen.

Three fathers doing a charity walk receive a donation from film star Daniel Craig as they set out.

Centrist Democrats threatened FDR’s transformative agenda until WWII came along. Social unrest and China weigh in the balance if Biden can’t crush a similar revolt.

The AP’s Hau Dinh set off from Hanoi for the seaside resort of Vung Tau in southern Vietnam for a long weekend in mid-July

He anchored SNL’s “Weekend Update” segment in the 1990s and had a long standup career.

Cesar Kimbirima fled Angola after being shot four times and spending five months in a coma.

The small metal "boat" under a painting of three children could become a museum piece.

The move could see Sir Richard Branson lose overall control of the airline he founded.

The event outside the Milwaukee Bucks stadium in the Deer District may have been a covid superspreader event.

Tennessee Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey said in a news conference that the state would restart its outreach recommending vaccines for children and teens, which includes offering the vaccine at events on school property as early as next week.

Sadiq Khan says commuters will be required to wear face coverings on TfL services after 19 July.

Hiring surged heading into the second half of the year.

Federal prosecutors last month subpoenaed the Cook County Land Bank Authority for records as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the program, which was formed to promote economic development in blighted communities that’s also been the subject of controversy. The subpoena sent May 21 requested records involving the sale of 24 properties by the land bank as well as emails and other records relating to Mustafaa Saleh, the agency’s former senior asset manager, records released in response to a Tribune Freedom of Information Act request show.

The movie and TV star died after being involved in a scooter collision 10 days ago in New York.

Four members of a family in Ontario were killed in what police believe was a deliberate hate crime.

Campaigners say it is the first time a company has been legally bound by the Paris climate accord.

The health secretary also says people aged 35 and over in England will be offered the vaccine this week.

US health officials say masks and physical distancing are no longer needed for vaccinated Americans.

Caleb Kennedy, 16, left "American Idol" after a video with a friend wearing what appeared to be a Ku Klux Klan hood circulated online.

Marcel Stellman, who has died aged 96, was also a record producer and lyricist.

Manchester student Moshe Bergman was among 45 people killed at the religious festival.

The KGB’s successor agency has charge the opposition leader's lawyer with revealing details in a secret case to ban his organizations.

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