Raines football coach Donovan Masline receives a key to the City of Jacksonville during a Dec. 18, 2025 celebration at Raines High School. The Vikings went 14-0 and claimed the FHSAA Class 3A championship with a 23-22 win over Miami Northwestern. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

District 2 Clay County School Board member Robert Alvero. | Clay County School Board

Nothing Putt Fun & Games is planned on 2.78 acres at 7250 and 7280 U.S. 1 N., about a half-mile south of International Golf Parkway. | Jacksonville Daily Record

Raines freshmen Ameer Mabane, left and Nicholas Davis, right, celebrate the team's 14-0 season during a community parade. Jacksonville celebrated the Raines Vikings winning the FHSAA Class 3A state football championship with a community parade on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

Picolata is a small community along the St. Johns River in west St. Johns County. The area's history goes back centuries, but very little physical evidence remains of forts and other structures that once stood. | Noah Hertz, Jacksonville Today

Justin Golden stands with attorney Kenneth Williams as he is sentenced to 30 years in prison in his baby's death. | News4Jax

Raines football players are all smiles during a school pep rally to celebrate the undefeated Vikings on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

This sign now shows the planned location of the new eighth-mile Hicken Power Dragstrip at Callahan Speedway. | Image in Time Photography

The bed in the execution room. | Florida Department of Corrections

The Florida Supreme Court determines whether proposed constitutional amendments are limited to single subjects and the proposed ballot language is clear.

A sand snowman

A student from Fort Caroline Elementary sits in the district's new 3D printing lab on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. | Megan Mallicoat, Jacksonville Today

The entrance to the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, which just received a $3.5 million bequest from the estate of the late Betsy Lovett. | Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens

Local musician Joe Starkey died Dec. 10, 2025, in a road rage incident. | Family photo

The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration flying team will perform in the 2026 NAS Jax Air Show, NAS Jacksonville confirmed. | Jacksonville Daily Record

Jacksonville City Council President Kevin Carrico taking the oath of office in June 2025. | City of Jacksonville

Rendering of Sulzbacher Enterprise Village, to be completed by the end of 2026. | Sulzbacher

The rural countryside of Suwannee County. | Guy Bryant, stock.adobe.com

A toll booth at the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. | Google Maps

Land within the Coastal Headwaters Longleaf Forest Florida Forever Project will be protected in Escambia County. | Lauren Yoho, Wildpath

Roadwork on SR 16 will remain a priority in St. Johns County. | News4Jax

A Duval Schools sign hangs on a fence at Long Branch Elementary, one of the district's planned school closures. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

This license plate frame does not obscure the letters and numbers that law enforcement officers, red-light cameras and toll booth readers use to identify drivers. | WUSF