Clay County officials and volunteers have been working to get nearly 300 animals ready for adoption.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A juvenile is expected to be OK after he or she was hit by a car Monday morning near Douglas Anderson School of the Arts on San Diego Road in Jacksonville. Jacksonville Fire Rescue responded to the call but did not take the kid to the hospital before a parent arrived. It’s not known if the juvenile is a student at Douglas Anderson. New4Jax requested the crash report from Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. We will update this story if more information becomes available.

ORIGINAL STORY:The News4Jax Trust Index Team is fact-checking a statement made by Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry about the millions of dollars he says the city has invested in Jacksonville’s neighborhoods. According to Curry, taxpayers should feel comfortable with the city of Jacksonville investing $233 million in direct spending for the Lot J project because the city has already adequately invested in Jacksonville’s communities. The year before I got into office the city of Jacksonville invested $20 million in neighborhoods. So my budgets have represented investments in neighborhoods, we’ve invested in neighborhoods before bringing a downtown project like this,” Curry said. News4Jax wanted to know how Jacksonville is investing nearly $200 million in neighborhood infrastructure investments in this year’s budget.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Magic Kingdom is said to be the “The Most Magical Place On Earth,” but right now, that’s not how it appears. WKMG, a New4Jax sister station, flew SKY 6 over the parks in Orlando on Monday. It looked like a ghost town. Disney World, Universal Orlando, SeaWorld Orlando and Legoland announced last week that all of its respective parks will be closed, starting Monday, through the end of the month. The decision marks the longest closures ever for the theme parks, which have previously shut down for hurricanes and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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