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Green Cove Springs drivers may see a Clay County deputy doing driver's licence checkd Friday.
October 23, 2025

Immigrant rights group blasts Clay County driver checkpoints

The Jacksonville Immigrant Rights Alliance says driver’s license checkpoints on Friday could be a tactic to round up immigrants.…

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JEA crews replace a pipe in Jacksonville. | JEA
October 23, 2025

#AskJAXTDY | Why is JEA replacing pipes near me again?

A Jacksonville Today reader wonders whether pipe replacement in San Jose duplicates work done earlier.…

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In taking over the space that used to house the Gypsy Cab Co., Purple Olive owners Kristen White and Peter Kenney renovated the space. | Old City PR
October 23, 2025

Purple Olive restaurant moves to former Gypsy Cab space

Purple Olive will open Friday on Anastasia Island after 21 years in St. Augustine Beach.…

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Osceola County students participate in a lesson.
October 23, 2025

Cellphone restrictions boost outcomes in Florida schools

Student test scores and problematic behaviors improved after cellphone restrictions took effect.…

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The St. Augustine Airport, which is overseen by the St. Johns County Airport Authority. | St. Augustine Airport
October 23, 2025

St. Augustine Airport Authority loses another commissioner

Jennifer Liotta is the fourth Airport Authority board member to resign this year.…

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Eartha M.M. White Park in Oakland on the city's Eastside | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today
October 22, 2025

New nonprofit would mete out Eastside community benefits funds

The nonprofit would manage the $40 million in public funds the Eastside will receive under the stadium community benefits agreement.…

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Kids Hope Alliance CEO Saralyn Grass served as a local celebrity during the 2025 I'm A Star Foundation Celebrity Basketball Classic. The game raised money for unhoused students in Duval County on July 26, 2025, at Riverside High School. |Photo by Will Brown
October 22, 2025

Saralyn Grass dismissed as CEO of Kids Hope Alliance

Grass had faced questions about whether her private consulting business conflicted with the Kids Hope Alliance.…

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The Rev. Adam Gray stands inside the sanctuary of his historic church in Riverside. | Dan Scanlan, Jacksonville Today
October 22, 2025

Historic Riverside church gets answer to renovation prayer

Riverside Church at Park and King received a $359,534 national grant to rehabilitate its 99-year-old sanctuary.…

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Cars park on Centre Street, the historic main artery of Fernandina Beach. | News4Jax
October 22, 2025

Parking issue heads to the ballot in Fernandina Beach

City commissioners declined to kill a plan for paid parking downtown. Instead, voters will decide next year.…

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Richard Barry Randolph, 63, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Nov. 20 for a murder in Palatka. |
October 22, 2025

Execution set in convenience store killing in Palatka

Richard Barry Randolph is scheduled for execution Nov. 20 for raping and killing his former boss.…

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A map shows the next five days of Tropical Storm Melissa.
October 21, 2025

Tropical Storm Melissa crawls across the Caribbean

Melissa could become a hurricane by the end of the week, but will it pose a threat to Florida?…

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October 21, 2025

St. Johns County will not join lawsuit over development law

More than 20 municipalities are suing Florida over a new law that restricts local development.…

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Florida CFO Blaise Ingoglia delivered reimbursements checks from U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to sheriffs from Northeast Florida Wednesday afternoon. From left are Putnam County Sheriff H.D. "Gator" DeLoach, Clay County Sheriff Michelle Cook, St. Johns County Sheriff Rob Hardwick, Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters, Ingoglia and Bradford County Sheriff Gordon Smith. | Noah Hertz, Jacksonville Today
October 21, 2025

State CFO visits First Coast to reimburse police for ICE costs

Local law enforcement received payments for the costs of helping ICE arrest illegal immigrants.…

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Jacksonville University President Tim Cost speaks at commencement in May 2025. He has announced that he will retire as president. | Jacksonville University
October 21, 2025

JU President Tim Cost moves on to become chancellor

Tim Cost has led Jacksonville University for 14 years and will become chancellor in June or July.…

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Southeastern Grocers is rebranding itself as The Winn-Dixie Co. | Jessica Palombo, Jacksonville Today
October 21, 2025

Winn-Dixie scales back to focus on Florida

Southeastern Grocers is rebranding as The Winn-Dixie Co. and selling stores in several states.…

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UNF President Moez Limayem visits WJCT News in August 2022. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today
October 21, 2025

UNF President Moez Limayem is leaving for USF

Limayem served as dean of the business school at the University of South Florida before coming to Jacksonville.…

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Bakery manager Linda Holfinger consults her Pie Chart in the kitchen of The Pie Heaven Bakery Cafe in Atlantic Beach. The bakery is offering free chicken pot pies to those working without pay during the government shutdown. | Michelle Corum, Jacksonville Today
October 20, 2025

Bakery helps federal workers weather the shutdown

The Pie Heaven Bakery Cafe in Atlantic Beach is offering free pot pies for unpaid workers during the shutdown.…

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The collapsed gangway at the Sapelo Island Visitors center is shown just after seven people died there. | Lewis M. Levine, AP
October 20, 2025

Honoring the 7 who died on Sapelo Island gangway

Four Jacksonville residents were among those killed during a Gullah Geechee celebration at Sapelo Island one year ago.…

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Jacksonville City Council members Ron Salem, Raul Arias and Jimmy Peluso are members of the city of Jacksonville’s Special Committee on the Community Benefits Agreement 2.0, which will determine the governance structure of the city's $40 million investment in the Eastside. A town hall meeting about Eastside Community Benefits Agreement funding featured bickering and disagreement among Eastside residents and members of the Jacksonville City Council on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025. | Will Brown, Jacksonville
October 20, 2025

Eastside benefits agreement structure set for City Hall vote

Eastside investment through Jacksonville’s Community Benefits Agreement funding will be considered in an on Oct. 22 meeting at City Hall.…

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Hurricane Kate satellite image (1985)
October 20, 2025

When does Florida typically get its last tropical threat?

Hurricane Kate struck the Florida Panhandle on Nov. 21, 1985, a rare tropical threat in November.…

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One of JEA's chilled water compressors at its Downtown plant. | Mike Mendenhall, Jacksonville Today
October 17, 2025

A chill in the air at EverBank Stadium … literally

JEA says chilled water is a growing method of cooling buildings, including the stadium and the Four Seasons.…

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Palatka City Manager Marcia Carty is sworn in in September 2024. | City of Palatka
October 17, 2025

Palatka officials continue to discuss embattled city manager

City commissioners will meet again Monday to consider complaints about City Manager Marcia Carty.…

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Brunswick Judge Robert Guy has resigned after he was charged with DUI in Jacksonville. | Judicial Council of Georgia
October 17, 2025

Brunswick judge resigns after DUI at Jacksonville club

Judge Robert W. Guy was charged after a truck was hit outside Wacko’s Gentlemen’s Club on the Southside.…

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More than 1,000 parents have participated in the Brigher Beginnings program that Ascension St. Vincent's has held on the campus of Edward Waters University on the second Saturday of each month. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today
October 17, 2025

Ascension St. Vincent’s will expand maternal telehealth

Ascension received a telehealth grant that could help address infant mortality in Duval County.…