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Jacksonville Today
A special City Council committee investigated LeAnna Cumber's role in the failed sale of JEA — and whether she was honest about her husband's involvement.
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Miami Herald
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Jacksonville hotels reported that demand for rooms was even higher than before the pandemic. -
Countywide, voter turnout was 25.5%, meaning about three in every four voters sat out Duval County’s municipal election. Here are the results of the City Council races.
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Democrat Joyce Morgan, a City Council member, and Republican Jason Fischer, a former state representative, were the top finishers in the election Tuesday.
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Democrat Donna Deegan and Republican Daniel Davis finished first and second in Jacksonville's mayoral election Tuesday, sending them to a runoff in May.
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Operation Safety Net seized six guns, including three assault rifles, after a tip about an armed person at Westside High School in Jacksonville.
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The Massachusetts company intends to open its fourth Northeast Florida store at River City Marketplace, replacing the Regal cinema.
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Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Anyone who is registered can vote, regardless of party affiliation.
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St. Augustine City Manager John Regan submitted his resignation Monday, effective June 2.
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The city issued permits last week that allow construction on the former site of the Florida Times-Union, on the Northbank of the St. Johns River.
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The Clay County Sheriff's Office has bought three drones to assist search and rescue, active shooter incidents, disaster response and crime scene processing.
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A proposal to revamp Florida's alimony laws — one of the most emotionally charged issues tackled by state lawmakers over the past decade — is back on the agenda during the 2023 Florida legislature.
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A recent report detailing problems with Florida’s patchwork mental health system had reached conclusions nearly identical to those of a similar report from more than 20 years ago. The echoes between the findings are unmistakable
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Florida is among 15 other states where lawmakers have filed bills that would ban efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion on college and university campuses.
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A Florida House panel approved a bill (HB 1417) that would lead to state law trumping local regulations governing landlords and tenants.
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The state has a new funding program for nursing schools to retain students and also instructors, who’ve been lured by lucrative nursing jobs elsewhere.
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The state Senate's GOP-controlled Committee on Health Policy approved the measure, while a companion House bill also cleared its first committee hearing.
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Nova Southeastern University was scheduled to host a screening of the locally produced documentary "The Poison Garden," which delves in racial injustice in South Florida. But the event was canceled after NSU staff raised concerns the film could be too politically provocative.
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Florida Senate President Kathleen Passidomo's ambitious $711 million proposal to alleviate the state’s affordable housing crisis includes financial incentives to developers to build apartments in strip shopping centers and other commercial areas.
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One proposal would create a decade-long seagrass restoration plan after the state saw a dramatic rise in seagrass loss, tied to record manatee deaths.
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The city issued a curfew on Sunday night and plans another starting on Thursday in an effort to curb violence after two fatal shootings took place over the weekend.
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NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Lina Khan, head of the Federal Trade Commission, about a rule the agency is proposing that would make it easier to cancel memberships and subscriptions.
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Seattle is the first American city to protect people against discrimination based on caste. California could become the first state.
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NPR' Leila Fadel talks to Los Angeles Times investigative reporter Richard Winton about information that identifies thousands of LA police officers being published by an online database.
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NPR' Leila Fadel talks to Los Angeles Times investigative reporter Richard Winton about information that identifies thousands of LA police officers being published by an online database.
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A retired Air Force pilot, who dropped bombs on Iraq during the opening night of the "shock and awe" campaign 20 years ago, talks with a woman who experienced that night as a teenager in Baghdad.
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Lt. DeWayne Smith served as a supervisor on the now-deactivated SCORPION unit — the specialized police unit responsible for conducting the traffic stop that ultimately lead to Nichols' death.
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Once upon a time, raising the nation's borrowing limit was considered a fairly routine vote. Today, Biden and the GOP are on a partisan collision course that risks landing the U.S. in default.
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This year is expected to set a record for the number of book bans by public school libraries, so many people are finding creative ways to make banned books available to young readers outside schools.
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There are more teachers now than before the pandemic, so why did almost half of U.S. schools still have teacher vacancies weeks into this school year? Here's what to know.
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Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun and three of his companies were also charged with crimes related to the promotion and sale of two digital currencies, Tronix (TRX) and BitTorrent (BTT).
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AP
A new rule clamps down on who can demonstrate at the Florida Capitol — and what they can say. Plus: The "Live Local Act" is getting bipartisan support in Tallahassee, and spring breakers are smiling despite red tide.
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