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The Jacksonville Public Education Fund is offering financial assistance to 15 Duval County schoolteachers so they can buy school supplies for their classrooms. l Kelly Sikkema via Unsplash.
July 29, 2024

Duval teachers can get help buying school supplies

The Jacksonville Public Education Fund is offering financial assistance to 15 Duval County schoolteachers.…

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Jaguars cornerback Tyson Campbell (32), seen here in 2022, is now the highest-paid cornerback to never make the Pro Bowl. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today
July 29, 2024

SPORTS | Jaguars saying all the right things as training camp enters second week

Unlike last year, when the Jaguars were the hunted, this year, they can return to the mentality of being the…

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Bartaco is planned for the ground floor and rooftop at the four-story 1534 Oak St. building in Riverside. It previously was home to the Black Sheep Restaurant. | Jacksonville Daily Record
July 29, 2024

Bartaco gets permit to replace Black Sheep in Riverside

The taco and margarita restaurant will occupy the ground floor and rooftop of the four story building in Five Points.…

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Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Alfred J. Hamwey, 24, of Jacksonville. | Find A Grave
July 29, 2024

Aviator’s remains identified 79 years after WWII crash

Alfred Hamwey of Jacksonville was shot down in 1945 while fighting Japanese forces in New Guinea.…

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Sandbags are stacked before a storm. | News4Jax
July 29, 2024

St. Johns County offers free sandbags to residents

With hurricane season in full swing, St. Johns County will offer free sandbags to residents on Wednesday.…

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Gov. Ron DeSantis addresses the crowd before publicly signing HB7, dubbed the "Stop WOKE" bill, during a news conference at Mater Academy Charter Middle/High School in Hialeah Gardens on April 22, 2022. | Daaniel A. Varela, Miami Herald
July 29, 2024

Federal judge permanently blocks part of ‘Stop WOKE Act’

Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker granted a permanent injunction against a part of the law that restricted workplace training.…

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July 29, 2024

Tropical depression could form this week on path to Florida

Forecasters say an area of disturbed weather has a 50-50 chance of developing over the next seven days.…

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Left: Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan welcomes Vice President Kamala Harris | City of Jacksonville; Right: Former Mayor Lenny Curry posted this photo to X the day Donald Trump was inaugurated | Florida Politics
July 28, 2024

OPINION | The presidential election is a #jaxpol proxy war and the stakes are high for both sides.

Much is at stake in this election, not least of which for local political figures, many of whom have a…

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Former Florida Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll addressed the Duval County Coalition of Black Republicans on Thursday, July 25, 2024 in Jacksonville's San Jose community. Her remarks focused on faith, family and freedom ahead of the 2024 presidential election. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today
July 26, 2024

Republicans look to shore up support among Black conservatives in Jacksonville

A Black woman may be leading the presidential ticket of a major political party for the first time, but for…

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July 26, 2024

Wells Fargo to lay off 74 in Jacksonville

The company said it will exit the global operations business unit and lay off employees at an office on Philips…

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Jacksonville's chief resilience officer, Anne Coglianese, works at her desk.
July 26, 2024

#AskJAXTDY | Does the city’s resilience office have any power?

A Jacksonville Today reader asks whether the city’s Office of Resilience is purely advisory and is City Hall listening?…

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Baptist Health plans to develop a medical campus in the Silverleaf community of St. Johns County including this freestanding emergency department. | Jacksonville Daily Record
July 26, 2024

Baptist Health campus under review for Silverleaf

The medical campus would open in early 2026 with an emergency room, office space, maintenance building and later a helipad.…

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The Florida Supreme Court.
July 26, 2024

Florida Supreme Court asked to reject abortion statement

Floridians Protecting Freedom contends a statement that will appear on the ballot with Amendment 4 is inaccurate and political.…

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July 26, 2024

Back-to-school sales tax ‘holiday’ starts Monday

Floridians can save on clothes, school supplies, computers and more beginning Monday.…

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Nadine Ebri answers questions during a District 1 School Board forum on July 25, 2024. | Jacksonville Public Education Fund/screenshot
July 25, 2024

Duval School Board District 1 forum: Ebri alone as Ricardo calls out sick 

Nadine Ebri was one of five Teacher of the Year finalists in Duval County in 2020-21. Tony Ricardo taught at Andrew…

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The "after" photo from a green schoolyard makeover at a Colorado elementary school. | Children & Nature Network, "Green Schoolyards" report
July 25, 2024

OPINION | ‘Go outside and play’ -Every Boomer’s mother

Green schoolyards is a movement to turn public school playgrounds into “outdoor classrooms,” with plant and vegetable gardens, trails, trees,…

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July 25, 2024

1,100 fewer Duval students qualify for buses this school year 

Previously, the district bused all students who lived outside a mile-and-a-half radius of their assigned school.…

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A. Philip Randolph, one of the chairmen for the March On Washington, stands in front of the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial after a parade through the streets of the capital, Aug. 28, 1963.
July 25, 2024

Highway 17 North Heritage Trail celebrates local icons

The trail will preserve the legacies of Augusta Savage, A. Philip Randolph, and brothers James Weldon and J. Rosamond Johnson.…

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Fans at last year's Enchantment Con gaze at a statue of a basilisk — a fictional serpent-like creature. | Enchantment Con
July 25, 2024

Enchantment Con will beguile Jax on Saturday

Enchantment Con will wrap together sci-fi, fantasy and cosplaying for lovers of all things fantastic.…

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The November ballot is hefty this year. l Tiffany Tertipes via Unsplash.
July 25, 2024

#AskJAXTDY l Can you really receive a digital vote-by-mail ballot?

A Jacksonville Today reader wants to know whether voters can receive a digital version of their vote-by-mail ballot.…

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Sheriff T.K. Waters announces the arrest of a suspected serial rapist from the 1990s. State Attorney Melissa Nelson and other law enforcement staff joined Waters at a news conference Thursday, July 25, 2024. | News4Jax
July 25, 2024

Suspected serial rapist arrested after three decades

Advances in DNA testing led to the arrest of Calvin Dumas, 68. Police said he attacked women in their homes…

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Samuel Pace, "Monk In Dali Land" ca. 2017, mixed media on wood. | Gordon W. Bailey Collection.
July 25, 2024

ARTS PICKS | July 26-28

Arts and Culture Editor Matt Shaw couldn’t pick just three Arts Picks this week. His FIVE picks include a new…

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Andrew Jackson's TayVion Lawson finishes beyond the outstretched arm of Raines' forward Zion Kemp during the 2024 Gateway Conference boys basketball tournament final on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. Lawson and the Tigers won 57-48. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today
July 25, 2024

NIL deals approved for high school athletes

The Florida Board of Education allowed high school athletes to make money through endorsements and other kinds of deals.…

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The Cross Regions Group tower would be taller than the The Bank of America Tower about three blocks away. | Jacksonville Daily Record
July 25, 2024

New high-rise could become Jacksonville’s tallest building

Cross Regions Group is working with the Downtown Investment Authority on a condo tower next to Riverfront Plaza.…