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An estimated $785 million Mega Millions jackpot will give lottery players a chance to start the new year with a lucrative bang.

Jacksonville City Councilman Rory Diamond has introduced a bill that would impose new mandatory building inspections for Jacksonville in the wake of the Surfside building collapse last year that killed 98 people.

Inflation at the wholesale level rose 8.5% in September from a year earlier, its third straight decline though it is still at a painfully high level.

Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates ticked down modestly this week after six straight weeks of gains pushed rates to heights not seen in more than a decade, before a crash in the housing market triggered the Great Recession in 2008.

Developers and city officials are pushing back on family members’ expectations for a memorial for 98 people who died last year when a beachfront Florida condominium building collapsed.

Inflation at the wholesale level jumped 8.7% in August from a year earlier, a slowdown from July yet still a painfully high level that suggests prices will keep spiking for months to come.

Homebuyers are regaining leverage at the negotiating table as the housing market slows, new data from Redfin shows.

Hundreds of bogus claims that sought a share of the $1.1 billion settlement in the deadly collapse of a Florida condominium building have been ruled as invalid by a judge.

A judge says money from the sale of Florida beachfront property where a collapsed condominium tower once stood will be used to pay property taxes of the destroyed units.

Meta Platforms says it will no longer pay U.S. news organizations to have their material appear in Facebook's News Tab as it reallocates resources in the economic downturn.

One of the nation’s biggest lottery prizes has grown a little bigger as the Mega Millions jackpot increased to an estimated $1.1 billion.

A giant Mega Millions lottery jackpot ballooned to $1.02 billion after no one matched all six numbers and won the top prize.

Monday marked a year since 80 firefighters from Northeast Florida traveled to help search and rescue efforts when the Champlain Towers collapsed in Surfside.

Nick Fusco was 16 years old when he got his first cigar — a gift from his grandfather, plucked out of a special tobacco drawer in his grandparents’ Surfside condominium.

Regardless of the cause, many have said that one of the deadliest collapses in U.S. history could have been prevented. The tragedy sparked some changes to Florida law.

One year after the Champlain Towers South building collapsed, killing 98 people and displacing hundreds of residents, the husband and daughter of Judy Spiegel reflected on what it has been like without her.

A judge has given final approval to a settlement of more than $1 billion for victims of the collapse of a Florida beachfront condominium.

Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates inched up this week following last week’s mammoth jump, the biggest in 35 years.

The federal investigation into the deadly collapse of a Florida beachfront condominium building is entering a new phase that involves cutting and drilling into concrete and steel to determine what role they played.

The federal investigation into the deadly collapse of a Florida beachfront condominium building is entering a new phase that involves cutting and drilling into concrete and steel to determine what role they played.

Federal investigators discussed their investigation as the one-year mark for the Surfside condo collapse approaches.

A Florida judge has given gave initial approval to a settlement of more than $1 billion to families who lost loved ones in the collapse last year of a Florida beachfront condominium building in which 98 people died.

Attorneys for the families who lost relatives or homes in last year’s collapse of a Florida condominium tower that killed 98 people have reached a $1.02 billion settlement.

Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates fell this week for the second week in a row, though interest rates on the key 30-year home loan remain at decade-high levels.

A bill has been sent to Florida's governor that would require statewide recertification of condominiums over three stories tall, in response to the Surfside building collapse that killed 98 people.

People who owned condominiums in the Florida building that collapsed nearly a year ago but didn’t suffer a loss of life will together collect at least $96 million from a court settlement.

A billionaire developer from Dubai is set to purchase the site of a South Florida condominium that collapsed last June, killing 98 people, for $120 million after no other bids were submitted by the Friday evening deadline for next week’s auction.

Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates retreated modestly this week, but interest on the key 30-year loan remains at decade-high levels.

Family members of some of the 98 people killed in a Florida condominium collapse last June say they are too deep in mourning to contemplate the nearly $1 billion settlement their attorneys negotiated on their behalf.

Lawyers representing families of victims and survivors of the condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, last June have told a judge that they've reached a nearly $1 billion tentative settlement.

City officials in North Miami Beach ordered residents of a five-story apartment building to evacuate after deeming the building “structurally unsound” during its 50-year recertification process.

Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose again this week as the key 30-year loan rate breached 4.5% and attained its highest level since the end of 2018.

People who owned units in a Florida oceanfront condominium building that collapsed last year will divide $83 million for property losses, with the compensation for families over the 98 deaths still to be determined.

The newly elected mayor of Surfside, Florida, is making the town’s response to the deaths of 98 people in the collapse of their oceanfront condominium a top priority in his new administration.

Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates rose this week as the key 30-year loan vaulted over 4% for the first time since May 2019.

Jimmy Patronis, Florida’s state fire marshal and chief financial officer, visited Jacksonville on Thursday to thank the Urban Search and Rescue team that’s made up of firefighters from a number of agencies in the area.

Coca-Cola posted better-than-expected sales in the fourth quarter as venues like coffee shops and movie theaters continued to reopen.

A cold snap in Florida is different than in other places.

A Miami judge says a summer trial is likely for lawsuits seeking millions of dollars in damages from the collapse of a Florida beachfront condominium that killed 98 people.

From the soils underground to eyes in the sky, officials say the federal probe into the deadly collapse of a Florida condominium building is gaining steam but is far from completion.

The average long-term mortgage rate in the U.S. ticked back down this week following several weeks of increases.

Australia plans to crack down on online advertisers targeting children by making social media platforms seek parental consent for users younger than 16 years old to join or face fines of $7.5 million under a draft law.

Mortgage rates are hovering near all-time lows, but that could begin to change.

Average long-term mortgage rates declined this week, with the benchmark 30-year loan slipping back below 3%.

Personal property recovered from the destroyed units of a South Florida condo building that collapsed will be divided into two categories: soft items and hard items.

The fight over whether the site of June’s deadly Florida condominium collapse should be sold for development or turned into a memorial boiled over during an emotional court hearing.

Prosecutors say three people have been arrested on charges involving the theft of the identities of some of the victims of June’s deadly South Florida condominium collapse.

An oceanfront park is emerging as the leading site for a memorial to the victims of the deadly condominium building collapse in Florida.

President Joe Biden’s administration is offering its full-throated support for local cities and school boards in Texas and Florida that are defying orders by their Republican governors that prohibit mask-wearing mandates in schools.

The pandemic created new habits for many of us. One being a 50% jump in screen time.

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday makes stops in Jacksonville, Surfside and Pensacola, where he greeted first responders, presenting them with one-time relief checks.

Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts linked to a disinformation network operating out of Russia that sought to smear COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and AstraZeneca.

Officials in a Florida town have released body camera footage from the first police officers who responded to a building collapse that left 98 people dead.

Firefighters have officially ended their search for bodies in the debris of the collapsed Surfside condo building.

A judge says victims and families who suffered losses in the collapse of a 12-story oceanfront Florida condominium will get a minimum of $150 million in compensation initially.

Another victim has been identified in the collapse of a 12-story Florida condominium that killed at least 97 people.

Efforts to recover human remains from the debris of a South Florida condominium are nearing an end.

A South Florida judge says all options remain on the table as a decision is made over what to do with the property where a 12-story condominium tower collapsed last month.

Recordings of 911 calls after an oceanfront Florida condominium collapsed show disbelief, panic and confusion as people tried to comprehend the disaster.

The death toll in the Miami-area condominium building collapse has climbed to 95 as crews worked for a 20th day to find victims in the rubble.

One of the victims of the Champlain Towers South condominium building collapse in Surfside grew up in the Jacksonville Beach area.

Even as crews are continuing their search for the last remaining souls that perished in the collapse of condominium town in Surfside, Florida, questions are swirling across the community about what to do with the property.

The body of 65-year-old Judy Spiegel was located in the rubble of the Champlain Towers South condominium building collapse in Surfside, her family told News4Jax.

The death toll in the Miami-area condominium collapse has climbed to 94.

Authorities searching for victims of a deadly collapse in Florida say they hope to conclude their painstaking work in the coming weeks as a team of first responders from Israel departed the site.

Across Florida, people living in the thousands of condominiums rising above the state’s 1,350 miles of coastline wonder if the building collapse in Surfside could happen to their home.

Officials say the Miami-Dade County Courthouse will begin undergoing repairs immediately because of safety concerns found during a review prompted by the deadly collapse of a nearby condominium building.

Families waiting in agony for news on relatives who were in the Florida condo building when it collapsed are turning to each other for support.

Officials say a cat that had lived on the ninth floor of a South Florida condo building before it collapsed last month has been found and returned to its family.

The death toll in the collapse of a Miami-area condo building rose to 79 on Friday, a number the mayor called “heartbreaking” as recovery workers toiled for a 16th day to find victims in the rubble.

A somber moment of silence marked the end of the two-week search for survivors of a Florida condominium collapse, as rescue workers stood at solemn attention and clergy members hugged a line of local officials while many of them sobbed.

Rescue workers now focused on finding remains instead of survivors in a Florida condominium collapse are vowing to keep up their search for victims until they have cleared all the rubble.

Emergency workers are giving up on any hope of finding survivors in a collapsed Florida condo building.

The condo building collapse in Surfside highlights the division between the tiny Florida town's new luxury buildings and those built decades ago for the middle class.

The vice mayor of a South Florida city says he wants a review of all the work done by a former municipal official who assured condo board members in another city that their building was in “very good shape” three years before it collapsed.

Officials overseeing the search at the site of the Florida condominium collapse seem increasingly somber about the prospects for finding anyone alive.

Legal action is already underway in the deadly Florida building collapse, even before rescuers have finished searching for victims.

A team of firefighters from Gainesville was among the Northeast Florida first responders assisting in the search, rescue and recovery efforts in Surfside.

As rescuers peel away layer after layer of the collapsed condo building in South Florida, the toll increases.

Stormy weather is hampering search efforts at the site of a collapsed Florida condo building.

When 16-year-old rising volleyball star Deven Gonzalez was pulled from the rubble of her Miami condo building, her initial reaction amid the shock was to tell firefighters that she was competing in a major tournament in a few days.

Demolition crews have set off explosives to bring down the remaining portion of a collapsed South Florida condo.

While hundreds of rescuers search desperately for survivors within the rubble of the collapsed Champlain Towers South in Florida, a smaller cadre of mental health counselors are also deploying to help families and other loved ones cope with the tragedy.

Demolition crews have set off explosives to bring down the remaining portion of a collapsed South Florida condo.

Officials in Surfside, Florida, provide an update on search and recovery efforts in the wake of a deadly condo collapse.

News4JAX reporter Zac Lashway received a tip that some members of JFRD tested positive for COVID19 while in Surfside.

Crews are trying to rescue a cat seen on a lower floor of the remaining wing of a collapsed 12-story condominium complex near Miami.

Governor Ron DeSantis, LT. Governor Jeanette Nuñez & Florida Division of Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie will address the press in Surfside.

Within the span of 36 hours this past week, Jill Biden went from clinking cups of beer with Doug Emhoff, the vice president's spouse, at a baseball game in Houston to joining the president in Florida to comfort families affected by the collapsed condominium building in Surfside.

The city of North Miami Beach has ordered the evacuation of a condominium building after a review found unsafe conditions.

A nearly 80-person team of Jacksonville Fire and Rescue’s Urban Search and Rescue personnel returned Friday night from Surfside after nearly a week helping search for survivors.

The number of people missing in the Florida condominium collapse fell following a new review.

Dozens who fled the collapse of a condominium tower in South Florida escaped with their lives, but little else.

Whether you’re considering repairs to your home, townhouse or condo, the Better Business Bureau says there are some important red flags to keep an eye out for before you hire a contractor to do the work.

The Florida Department of Financial Services says you need to be careful if you’re trying to donate money to help victims of the deadly Condo Collapse in Surfside.

President Joe Biden has drawn on his own experiences with grief and loss to comfort families affected by the Florida condo collapse.

She was asking for help and she was pleading to be taken out of there.

The News4Jax I-TEAM continues to uncover more about the history of the Champlain Towers South condo building through documents newly-released by the town of Surfside.

One of the most beloved figures in Miami sports history has visited the site of a Florida condo building collapse.

A former city official who assured leaders that a Florida condo building was in “very good shape” three years before it collapsed has left his new job.