PARKS

From now through October, community members can help imagine the future of the city’s park. The city plans to hold three virtual workshops to share the goals for the parks.

There is a plan in the works to ban smoking in Jacksonville’s parks. Light up or vape and you could pay a fine or even go to jail. It’s not a rule yet, but it’s something the city council is considering.

Preparing for a new mayor and administration in Jacksonville--transition teams are starting to meet to discuss how to better the city. Mayor-elect Donna Deegan takes the oath of office on Saturday, taking over for outgoing Mayor Lenny Curry. Wednesday – we sat in on the first infrastructure committee meeting – it’s a group that covers everything from potholes to police.

Mayor-elect Donna Deegan talks about the future of parks in Jacksonville, while Friendship Fountain could reopen in a few months.

Starting Friday, July 1, diapers, infant, and toddler clothing are all tax-free through June 30, 2023.

Elected leaders in Kansas convened community groups and held town hall conversations after demonstrators protested George Floyd’s death statewide.

Happy National Park week!

A Louisiana board has voted to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling affirming state segregation laws.

Soulful British singer-songwriter Arlo Parks has won the prestigious Mercury Prize for her debut album “Collapsed in Sunbeams.”.

Tropical Storm Elsa spun up a tornado at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay that flipped recreational vehicles upside-down and blew one of them into a lake.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A controversial 5G cellphone tower has been moved out of a Downtown Jacksonville neighborhood. Some neighbors at the Parks at the Cathedral townhomes were displeased when the tower was installed just outside the building near one unit’s windows, blocking the view of downtown. Parra was one of several of her neighbors who asked the city to have the tower moved. Some feared the radiofrequency waves from the 5G pole could be a health hazard. After months of expressing their concerns, neighbors on Tuesday noticed the tower was gone.

This image released by Smithsonian Channel shows, from left, Rhiannon Giddens, Allison Russell, Leyla McCalla and Amythyst Kiah, of Our Native Daughters, near Parks, La., on Jan. 29, 2018. The group will appear in the documentary "Reclaiming History: Our Native Daughters" premiering Monday on Smithsonian Channel. (Terri Fensel/Smithsonian Channel via AP)NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Playing a banjo as a Black female artist is a form of activism for the four members of Our Native Daughters. Why does someone assume if you’re Black, you must be doing urban music, whatever that means?” said Russell. “Songs of Our Native Daughters” which came out on the Smithsonian Folkways record label in 2019, focused on the stories of women during the transatlantic slave trade, but also the triumphs of Black women.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Neighbors tell News4Jax they’re upset about a 5G cellphone tower that’s being installed outside the Parks at the Cathedral townhomes in Downtown Jacksonville. Some said they feel the tower could be a hazard to their health and that it could make their property value suffer. “There was no notice to anyone.”Parra said it was about two months ago when she walked outside and saw the tower being constructed. “Far away from people’s bedroom windows.”RELATED: PGA hits ‘pause button’ on cell tower near Bolles Lower SchoolThe towers hold the network equipment for 5G internet access and emit radio frequency waves. Experts say more research on radiofrequency waves from cellphone towers is needed, but there isn’t any strong evidence cellphone towers cause noticeable health effects.

Denver Broncos cornerback A.J. “Yeah, I was disappointed for him,” Broncos coach Vic Fangio said about an hour after the league suspended Bouye. Missing the final four games of 2020 will cost Bouye $2.34 million. The suspension would hang over Bouye into 2021 when he’d have to sit out the first two regular-season games. Given the injuries and suspension at cornerback, Parks said he was getting a crash course in the Broncos’ 2020 playbook.

Wildlife vets take samples from dead elephants found in Hwange National park, Zimbabwe, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020. (AP Photo)HARARE – Parks authorities in Zimbabwe said Monday that the recent deaths of elephants have been caused by a bacterial disease that has previously affected elephants in Asia and other animals in southern Africa, although more tests will still be carried out. In recent years poachers in Zimbabwe have poisoned dozens of elephants with cyanide and then have taken their ivory tusks to sell them to illegal traders. Not enough information is known about the disease’s effect on local elephants to predict a long-term outcome, he said. “Yes they die, but honestly this is just nothing, a drop in the ocean because we have over 84,000 elephants in Zimbabwe, which is overpopulation already,” he said.