‘No one said anything to us’: Community leaders disapprove new $62M medical examiner’s office in Brentwood area
After a victory against the opening of a liquor store in a Brentwood neighborhood, community leaders are expressing their disapproval toward the construction of a new Duval County Medical Examiner Office (MEO) in that same area.
Mayor: City plans to buy controversial liquor store next to elementary school
The property where a liquor store was projected to open across from an elementary school in Northwest Jacksonville will be purchased by the City of Jacksonville, according to Mayor Donna Deegan, who made the announcement at one of her most anticipated meetings.
Motel previously known as ‘Gold Rush Inn’ scheduled for hearing by city’s public nuisance board
The owner of Home 1 Great Stay, the motel formerly known as the Gold Rush Inn, is scheduled to appear before the Jacksonville Public Nuisance Abatement Board on April 27 to defend against accusations that the motel presents a danger to the community.
JSO report details what led to arrest of man charged in North Jacksonville triple murder
An arrest report obtained Wednesday by News4JAX reveals new information in the arrest of Ja-Darrius Jones, the man who faces charges of second-degree murder in the deaths of three people whose bodies were found by Jacksonville police inside a home on the Northside.
I-TEAM: Recorded traffic stop raises questions of racial profiling and a violation of rights
A local veteran is turning to the News4JAX ITEAM after JSO Task force officers pulled him over in a traffic stop on the Northside. Braxton Smith says he and his car were searched. He insists he was illegally detained and questioned for more than 30 minutes before being let go. The first 3 minutes of the police encounter were captured on his cell phone camera, before officers turned the recording off.
Man arrested, charged with animal cruelty after 20 dogs seized from home
A man arrested for not properly caring for 20 dogs faces charges of animal cruelty and confining animals without sufficient food and water. The city filed a petition to removed the animals from Terry Thomas. The 48-year-old man had been cited in the past for keeping animals in unsafe and unsanitary conditions.
Nearly 100 firefighters called to 4-alarm fire at Northside apartment complex; dozens of people displaced
While multiple Northeast Florida areas were experiencing flooding as Nicole battered the state, a fire broke out Thursday at an apartment complex on Jacksonville’s Northside, displacing dozens of people, officials said.
Police locate person who took off from Dollar General with shopping bag filled with money, Oreos, Mountain Dew: JSO
A person was taken into custody Monday morning after robbing a Dollar General store on the city’s Northside while armed and taking off with a shopping bag filled with money, cookies and a soft drink, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
Southern counties saw the heaviest of rains, including areas of Jacksonville’s Westside
Living in Georgia, or even Jacksonville’s Northside you would be confused about the discussion of heavy rains. Folks there remained generally dry. Yet, where the rains came down hard, they really piled up. At one time there was a flood warning in effect for Jacksonville’s Westside.
Florida House District 14
Democrat Kimberly Daniels won the most votes in a four-way August primary in the redrawn Florida House District 14, which covers from Brooklyn and downtown north to include a sliver of Northwest Jacksonville and much of the Northside east of Lem Turner Road and south of Interstate 295 as well as Arlington and part of the Southside north of the Hart Expressway to Beach Boulevard and west of Southside Boulevard.
Fight with jet skiers on sandbar led to arrest of Jacksonville corrections officer, warrant shows
A dispute with jet skiers on a sandbar that escalated to a physical fight that left one of the jet skiers injured led to the arrest of a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Corrections Officer, according to a warrant obtained Friday by News4JAX.