Work progresses on a new migrant detention facility dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility in the Florida Everglades on July 4, 2025. | Rebecca Blackwell, AP file

A summer camp is held at the Towers of Hope for the children of sheltered residents, who are known as participants. | Salvation Army, Northeast Florida Area Command

Photos shows a rainbow crosswalk that was removed overnight Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, outside of the Pulse nightclub, where 49 people were gunned down in June 2016. The image at left shows the crosswalk in 2017. | Ryan Gillespie, Orlando Sentinel via AP

A sign outside the Duval Schools headquarters advertises that the property is available on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. | Megan Mallicoat, Jacksonville Today

Ribault junior Jasmine Delphonse (14) applauds Trojans setter Rivka Woolf after the Trojans recorded a side out during the first game of the season. Ribault hosted Raines in the first volleyball game inside the new Austin-Wilkes Gymnasium on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today

An image from Officer D. Bowers' bodycam shows William McNeil Jr. in his seat just after the traffic stop. | State Attorney's Office

Ameris Bank has been headquartered in Atlanta since moving its executive offices from Jacksonville in 2019. | Jacksonville Daily Record

An illustration shows the Four Seasons Hotel & Residences on Jacksonville's Northbank. | Jacksonville Daily Record

The former Lawton Pratt funeral home is being converted into apartments. | Michelle Corum, Jacksonville Today

A view of Centre Street in Fernandina Beach, where paid parking would be installed. | Google

Orange Park Mall is celebrating its 50th anniversary. | News4Jax

Hurricane Erin will not hit Florida, but the storm could cause beach erosion. | News4Jax

St. Johns County Sheriff Rob Hardwick, left, talks about online threats and sextortion issues on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. He is joined by Jason Carley, FBI Jacksonville special agent in charge, and Jackson Short, Duval County Public Schools police chief. | Dan Scanlan, Jacksonville Today

Commercial property owners in Five Points could pay an assessment to fund private security, lighting and landscaping improvements. | Five Points Facebook page

BTI Partners bought 3,200 acres in Clay County for $93 million on Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. The property is west of U.S. 17 and north of property owned by Florida Power & Light Co. | Jacksonville Daily Record

Duval Schools' headquarters on Nov. 4, 2024 | Megan Mallicoat, Jacksonville Today

A crosswalk in front of First Coast High School | Google Maps

A barbed wire fence surrounds the Baker Correctional Institution, which is set to turn into Florida's second immigration detention facility in Sanderson., Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025. | Kaley Mantz, Fresh Take Florida

Protests against segregated beaches were just some of the demonstrations during the Civil Rights Movement in St. Johns County. | St. Johns Cultural Council