Tony Cugno, chief operating officer of the Jacksonville Aviation Authority, provides an update Monday, May 19, 2025, about vehicles trapped in a burned parking garage at the airport. | Mike Mendenhall Jacksonville Today.

Mitchell Patch and his 1-year-old son, Everett, were killed while crossing Baymeadows Road on May 16, 2025. | GoFundMe via News4Jax

Tim Johnson, the volunteer chairman of the A.L. Lewis Black Opportunity & Impact Fund, listens to Sharon Coon during a reception May 15, 2025, celebrating the 40 organizations that received funding from the fund this year. Coon is the founder of the Friends of Brentwood Library, a nonprofit that will use funding from the Lewis fund to sponsor a writer's festival this summer. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

A tiger walks in an overhead enclosure at the Jacksonville Zoo and Botanical Gardens, where palm trees and ferns are integrated into the design. | Jacksonville Zoo and Botanical Gardens

Police closed Blackrock Road in Yulee after a plane crash May 10, 2025. | News4Jax

Susie Wiles watches as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 3, 2024. | Evan Vucci, AP

The drought monitor released on May 15,

Burned cars and a partly collapsed deck are shown inside the hourly garage at the Jacksonville airport | Jax Aviation Authority

Increasingly, Florida universities are choosing politicians as presidents. | Shock, stock.adobe.com

Smoke billows from the hourly parking garage at Jacksonville International Airport on Friday, May 16, 2025. | News4Jax

Former crew members of the USS Stark lay a wreath in front of a memorial to the 37 men killed in an Iraqi attack on the ship in 1987. The ceremony was part of an annual memorial Friday, May 16, 2025, at Naval Station Mayport, the ship's home port. | Dan Scanlan, Jacksonville Today

Jacksonville, seen here in the mid-1950s, has a higher-than-average rate of heirs' property. | State Archives of Florida/Johnson

Beachside Seafood in Jacksonville Beach will be renovated under its new ownership. | Dan Macdonald, Jacksonville Daily Record

This metal mosquito statue is the size of an adult human, not an adult mosquito, and it sits outside of the Disease Vector Education Center that the district operates in St. Johns County. | Noah Hertz, Jacksonville Today

Smoke billows from the International Flavors & Fragrances plant on Lane Avenue, on Jacksonville's west side, on Thursday, May 15, 2025. | Michelle Corum, Jacksonville Today

The Plaza de la Constitución is lit up during Nights of Lights in downtown St. Augustine. l St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra, and The Beaches Visitors and Convention Bureau

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People sit in front of a makeshift memorial outside the student union at Florida State University in Tallahassee on April 17, 2025, after a campus shooting. | Kate Payne, AP

Former Florida Sen. Travis Hutson. | Phil Sears, AP

Renovation is beginning on EverBank Stadium. | Casmira Harrison, Jacksonville Today

City Council member Michael Boylan, left, presents information about a planned 2.3-mile sidewalk project on part of Mandarin Road during a meeting Wednesday, May 14, 2025, at the Mandarin Community Club. | Dan Scanlan, Jacksonville Today

Mayor Donna Deegan, left, listens as Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Chief Keith Powers speaks during a news conference Nov. 30, 2023. | Dan Scanlan, Jacksonville Today

The Guana Wildlife Management Area is a state-owned conservation area north of St. Augustine where visitors can walk on paths and enjoy the great outdoors, but also hunt for waterfowl. | Flickr, Justin Ellenberger

Aldi is converting Harvey's Supermarket in Downtown Jacksonville at 777 N. Market St. to its banner. | Jacksonville Daily Record