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Man who attacked escort service women pleads guilty
As bold as Brett Pincomb was about attacking Jacksonville women and telling police about it, he spared the victims and judicial system a trial by pleading guilty to multiple charges and being sentenced to 40 years in prison. Per the negotiated plea,...
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‘FIGHTING FOR A BETTER LIFE’
More than hundred people gathered Wednesday evening, July 15, along Florida 16 in St. Augustine to honor a 28-year-old man who died after authorities say he ran from federal immigration agents and was struck by a semi-truck. The vigil took place at...
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Property tax ballot measure has yet to find its champion
Florida’s property tax ballot measure has so far drawn little organized support, but a mountain of opposition has emerged over the month since lawmakers approved it for the November ballot. Polling has been scant, but a recent survey for Sachs Media...
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Trump changes course on Hormuz fee plan
President Donald Trump on July 14 quickly walked back his proposal to charge a 20% fee on ships that pass through the Strait of Hormuz, saying he will instead look to make “trade and investment deals” with Middle East nations that use the critical...
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Trump says U.S. will seek control over Strait of Hormuz
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said the United States is reinstating a naval blockade on Iran and will seek operational control of the Strait of Hormuz after several days in which he declared the ceasefire over, and the United States and Iran...
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JAA preparing suit against city
Jacksonville Aviation Authority officials are preparing to hire outside attorneys to sue City Hall, according to a draft lawsuit and resolution, setting up a showdown years in the making that stems from City Council President Nick Howland’s repeated...
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Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, in his first U.S. interview, says he’s ready to lead in Cuba
On paper, Raul Guillermo Rodriguez Castro, center back, controls the security of Cuba’s leaders. Unofficially, he advises on investment opportunities, negotiations and policy decisions – any area leaders in official roles, such as Cuba’s President...
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New downtown apartments are nearing completion
Downtown Jacksonville’s most ambitious development in decades is accelerating. Gateway Jax CEO Bryan Moll recently said Pearl Square – the nine-block, nearly $1 billion mixed-use project in the downtown Jacksonville – should see its first completed...
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U.S. launches new airstrikes on Iran
The United States said on July 8 that, at President Donald Trump’s direction, it launched a new round of airstrikes on Iran, marking a second consecutive night of attacks and raising fresh doubts about the prospects for a long-term peace deal with...
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Iconic eatery coming to Riverfront Plaza
European Street Cafe, a dining landmark in Jacksonville for more than 35 years, will bring its signature sandwiches, soups, salads and more to downtown’s Riverfront Plaza. The beloved local restaurant from owner Andy Zarka has been selected to operate...
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NEW NORMS
Concerns over rising mortgage rates — causing home sales in Florida to languish — are starting to fade as Realtors reported an uptick in sales in May for the ninth straight month. The reason? A leveling off of rates for new mortgage loans. On June 25,...
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AI can lead to false arrests and wrongful convictions
In Baltimore County, Maryland, on Oct. 20, a 17-year-old student named Taki Allen was sitting outside his high school after football practice when an artificial intelligence-enhanced surveillance camera falsely identified the Doritos bag in his pocket...
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OF THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE
As America turns 250, the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln points to what comes next
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CELEBRATING AMERICA
There is no print edition of the paper today, but you can find today’s puzzles, comics, national news and sports here in the eNewspaper.
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Manatee heads back to the wild after milestone rehab
Rescued manatee Alpine recently returned home to the Crystal River, as the first of his kind released after being rehabilitated at the Jacksonville Zoo and Botanical Gardens’ new manatee critical care facility. The June 23 release was an important...
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Trump reports $1.4B in crypto venture income
President Donald Trump reported more than $1.4 billion in income tied to his family’s cryptocurrency ventures in 2025, making digital assets the largest driver of his earnings, according to an annual financial disclosure released June 30. The 927-page...
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What DeSantis vetoed, OK’d for NE Florida
Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed spending for a Jacksonville fairground restroom and for two Emerald Trail segments in Jacksonville, but he largely left untouched the biggest items added by state lawmakers to the 2026-27 budget. The spending items that stayed...
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Why Europe’s heat wave is more perilous than ours
The season for that feeling your hands might melt into the steering wheel has begun — but be warned, that’s hardly the worst effect that scorching days present. Record weekend temperatures in Florida and reports that Europe is in the grips of the...
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Howland sworn in as City Council president
Nick Howland’s path to City Council president took him from the Chicago suburbs to Duke University to four years in the Navy and then into a career with defense and aerospace companies. The turning point came in 2001 when he was pursuing an MBA at the...
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Home-grown help
About 30 senior leaders from HCA Florida Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville helped 10 hungry St. Augustine families by creating garden lots for them at the St. Johns Food Pantry.
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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ eyed for Everglades preserve
Hours after Miami-Dade County announced a proposal to turn Alligator Alcatraz into a permanent environmental preserve, Gov. Ron DeSantis stood on the remote airstrip in the middle of the Everglades Thursday, June 25, to declare the mission of the...
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Sign updates Jacksonville’s Revolutionary War history
Cow Ford, frequently spelled Cowford, is the original historical name for present-day Jacksonville and was more than a narrow point in the St. Johns River where cows could be herded through the water from one side to the other. It was also more than a...
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Florida condo failed for weeks before collapse
On the eve of the five-year anniversary of the Surfside condominium disaster, a new federal report reveals that the condominium collapse did not happen in an instant, but was rather the result of a slow-motion chain reaction that started weeks before...
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Jacksonville tops $100M for septic tank phaseout
Peace Missionary Baptist Church has relied on septic tanks for 38 years at its grounds on Rowe Avenue in the Christobel neighborhood. Pastor Anthony Webster has been hearing for as many years that someday the city would extend sewer service...
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Sidewalks triggering $7M debate
On Art Museum Drive in Jacksonville, the peril begins where the sidewalk ends. The road between Atlantic Boulevard and Beach Boulevard is lined by apartment complexes and organizations that serve people with disabilities. The sidewalks on both sides...
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State’s food banks strain to keep pace with need
This is the second of three stories about how Florida residents are coping with higher food prices. Florida residents are turning out in droves throughout the state for help from food banks and other nonprofits as grocery prices and overall living...
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Negotiations begin after Iran peace memo signed
Sixty days of negotiation on a final U.S.-Iran peace deal have begun, Vice President JD Vance told reporters June 18, after the signing of an interim pact ending the Iran war on all fronts. “The entire team has worked very well on this, and we’ve got...
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Report: Housing crisis is worsening in the U.S.
Housing is fundamental. We all need a roof over our heads. We all need someplace to raise our families, cook our meals, escape from the world. With that in mind this year’s “State of the Nation’s Housing,” a report produced every year by Harvard...
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MORE THAN A T-SHIRT
A big, burly, scary-looking guy walks into a tent at a rock festival. And what does he say? “I want to let you know that this brand saved my life.” This might be an unexpected experience for some apparel brand owners, but for Demons Behind Me, this is...
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Making space for offshore residents
Near a Jacksonville neighborhood with a history of water pollution, volunteers turned out June 10 to start a cleanup process that will grow new oyster beds in the Trout River. “It’s a movement that’s happening on the Northside,” said Marshiray...
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Vinyl is groovy again
Making a cassette mixtape for your high school sweetheart to rocking a portable Walkman down the street were the early days of engaging with top hits. Today, the main way to listen to the latest charttoppers is through streaming services. Recently,...
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The one hos dad stoll talks about
The journalism bug hit me early, and by the time I got to high school — J.P. Taravella High School in Coral Springs — I was working for the school newspaper. I remember writing an in-depth article about our school’s star football player, Dan Morgan. I...
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Pakistan indicates Iran deal is at hand
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said June 12 the text of a peace deal between the United States and Iran “has been reached,” and Iran’s foreign minister said a deal has “never been closer,” raising hopes for a genuine settlement to wind down...
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TRAGEDY FUELED ACTION
Bill McKay didn’t know any of the 49 people who died at the hands of a gunman at the Pulse nightclub in downtown Orlando on June 12, 2016. h Nor had he met any of the 58 people who were injured in the early morning mass shooting. h But on the 10th...
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Israel, Iran halt fighting after trading air strikes
Israel and Iran said they would halt strikes on each other for now but warned of forceful responses to any future aggression – ending, at least temporarily, an exchange of missile attacks over the weekend that put a fragile ceasefire and diplomatic...
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A triumphant odyssey
Paul Lore and Dawn Smith readily admit that some people think they are, well, crazy. And some days they agree. But for Lore, 63, who lives in Fernandina Beach, and Smith, 49, from Burnham on Crouch in England, the lure of rowing a small boat across a...
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Care at Wolfson hospital boosted by $5.5 million gift
Wolfson Children’s Hospital has received a $5.5 million grant from the Terry Family Foundation to support major pediatric cardiac and emergency care initiatives. Wolfson’s parent, Baptist Health, matched a portion of the grant at 150%, for a total...
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DUVAL HIGH SCHOOL OPENS CLASSES, BARN
The chickens and goats and rabbits all got loving attention at Frank H. Peterson Academies of Technology, but the Westside Jacksonville school has another draw now that Principal Jessica Mastromatto called “a game-changer.” The new rabbit storage room...
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Surveillance cameras to target illegal dumping
Al Ferraro started the morning at a debris-filled homeless camp where a tattered tent covered a small sofa and a wooden dresser just across the fence line of a North Main Street subdivision and a short walk from the city’s S-Line recreation...
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UNF keeps streak alive for state budget success
An academic building at the University of North Florida, a new road through the traffic-congested Southside, safety improvements for moving through downtown Jacksonville’s sports complex and a crosswalk on Baymeadows Road where a father and his child...
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Winn-Dixie heir’s home brings $16.5M
The heirs of the Winn-Dixie founding family have parted with a palatial Intracoastal Waterway home. Built from the ground up in 2002 for the late Robert D. Davis, grandson of the supermarket chain’s founder, William M. Davis, the 8,815-square-foot...
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Blue Origin New Glenn rocket explodes in test
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket stood tall on its Cape Canaveral launch pad for a prelaunch static fire test May 29 when plans for a future liftoff came to fiery end as the rocket exploded, briefly turning the Space Coast sky an apocalyptic orange. The...
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Otto Aerospace offers first look at new plant
Otto Aerospace’s headquarters campus for making business jets at Cecil Airport will stand out as much as the jets will on the runway. Jacksonville Aviation Authority board members got a look at the company’s planned designs for the future construction...
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Trump claims Iran is ‘negotiating on fumes’
President Donald Trump again insisted Iran wants to make a deal to end the war even as accelerated negotiations in recent days have failed to lead to an agreement. “Iran is very much intent,” Trump said at a Cabinet meeting on May 27. “They want very...
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FL lawmakers agree to nearly $115B budget deal
House and Senate leaders reached a final deal on the state budget late May 24, the last step in an extended process that required a special session to complete for the second year in a row. The spending plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1 will...
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Luxury tower’s architect has built global renown
Carlos Ott burst onto the international architecture scene 40 years ago when he designed the Opera Bastille in Paris and went on to see his designs in high-profile buildings around the world. Over the next two years, observers will see his vision take...
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Memorial Wall likely not going anywhere
Veterans and service members and people paying respects to those who died in wartime will gather again this Memorial Day where the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Wall has stood since 1995 as the largest memorial of its kind outside Washington,...
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Introducing Nate Boerkircher
This is a guy worth getting to know, a guy from a really small town in Nebraska who will bring an enforcer-type mindset to the Jaguars’ offense via maximum effort and whose journey to Jacksonville was the opposite of a figurative straight line.
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Pakistan: ‘Good signs’ from Iran after talks
WASHINGTON – Iran’s foreign minister met Pakistan’s interior minister on May 22 to discuss proposals to end the U.S.-Israeli war, Iranian media reported, with Tehran and Washington still at odds over Iran’s uranium stockpile and controls on the Strait...
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NASSAU WILDLIFE SANCTUARY OPEN
Swiper the red fox was once extremely aggressive, twice attacking his Central Florida keeper. h He was confiscated by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and taken to another facility, which also could not cure the aggression. The fox...
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Fourth of July fireworks ban possible in Florida
Floridians may be singing, “bye-bye, Miss American Pie,” this Fourth of July: A fireworks ban may be coming. Here’s why: Wildfires are burning the pine forests outside of Hosford in the Panhandle and scorching the sawgrass wetlands of the Everglades...
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Trump delays strikes on Iran amid possible deal
President Donald Trump said he delayed strikes on Iran planned for May 19 following progress on a possible deal to end the war, though Tehran’s latest proposal appears little changed from an earlier deal that the president rejected as “garbage.” “It’s...
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‘PORTRAIT OF FLORIDA’
Curt Anderson Florida has created a docuseries aimed at highlighting the state’s history as part of the 250th anniversary of the U.S. The seven-part series, called “America 250: A Portrait of Florida,” focuses on seven distinct places in the state...
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Why Americans feel bad about the economy
As the impacts from the Iran war spilled over into everyday life, more Americans have said they are worse off today than at most any point in the last 25 years. More than half — 55% — say their financial situation is deteriorating, according to a new...
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TRANSFORMATION FOR SOUTHBANK
Construction workers and heavy equipment have arrived on the Southbank riverfront site where Related Group has planned for years to build a luxury apartment tower. Related Group and city leaders will make it official with a ground-breaking ceremony on...
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Winn-Dixie deal renews focus on ‘food deserts’
Jacksonville City Council approved an incentives agreement for Winn-Dixie’s headquarters to grow in the city and also renewed attention on finding ways to bring grocery stores into “food desert communities” where fresh produce and meats are hard to...
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UF UNVEILS EARLY BUILDING DESIGN
The University of Florida unveiled the “starting point” for the design of the first new academic building in its downtown Jacksonville graduate campus. h The building makes heavy use of glass and angles that would make it stand out when viewed down Bay...
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FL lawmakers reconvene to finalize state budget
Florida lawmakers began another attempt to settle on a state budget — a task forcing them for the second straight year to go into a taxpayer-costly overtime session. The Legislature convened May 12 for what is expected to be four days of negotiations...
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HOT WATER?
Florida homeowners might soon find the state’s largest insurer against floods — the federal government — is getting out of the business, or significantly shrinking its role, according to a much-anticipated report on restructuring the Federal Emergency...
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Charting his own path
It’s been nearly 1,000 years since King Henry IV stood barefoot in the Italian snow to beg forgiveness after clashes with Pope Gregory VII, and over two centuries since Napoleon imprisoned Pope Pius VII in France. Now, a battle is underway between a...
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Can you share a memory from a trip to a theme park?
Tom Szaroleta LoTestyle reporter Dosney World’s roller coasters can be pretty Tun, but you mardly ever Tear Tor your loTe wmole you’re on one. Tmat’s not tme case at Cedar Poont, tme “Roller Coast” park on tme smores oT Lake Eroe on Omoo. Tme...
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‘RAY OF SUNSHINE’
Lizzie Vara is only 5 but already knows how to light up a room. h Her cleft lip has been no match for her natural positive energy. Stares from other children and the world at large go ignored. h “It does not faze her,” said Lizzie’s mother, Kimberly...
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Pentagon estimates cost of Iran war at $25 billion
Iran weighs U.S. framework for peace. The Pentagon said the first eight weeks of the Iran war cost roughly the equivalent of the combined annual budgets of the Coast Guard, the National Park Service, and the Environmental Protection Agency. Two...
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Deegan’s vision changes the look of downtown
Mayor Donna Deegan has gone all-in on downtown development since she took office in July 2023. How has downtown changed since then? Downtown Vision’s latest State of Downtown report offers a mixed bag of findings. Downtown’s residential population...
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BOY TO GET WISH TO MEET TEAM
Six-year-old Dominic Spicher hit a home run and the crowd roared at Cornerstone Park in Ponte Vedra Beach. But for Dominic, who has congenital heart disease, connecting bat and ball and running the bases with the Ponte Vedra Sharks youth baseball team...
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Housing market’s perception problem
Some national reports depict Florida as a housing market in deep trouble with dire headlines declaring “Foreclosure filings jump,” “Prices ‘dropping hard,’ ” and “Florida (among) the biggest losers.” But the latest statewide home sales numbers...
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Hungry for seafood or new gastropub?
If picking a restaurant is about both the menu and the atmosphere, the Downtown Investment Authority faces a similar choice over what kind of restaurant it wants for a waterfront spot in Riverfront Plaza. Atlas Restaurant Group proposes to operate a...
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INVESTING IN DOWNTOWN
The restoration of three relatively small buildings at a high visibility corner in downtown Jacksonville would get about $6 million in taxpayer incentives so the vacant structures will become places for restaurants, shops and 14 apartments along the...
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Forever remembered and honored
As firefighters across the area continue to try to keep residents and their homes safe from raging wildfires, the life of one of their own was celebrated Thursday, April 30, in Nassau County. Residents and first responders lined the procession route...
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DCPS wants to deliver new schools for less
On an 87-year-old campus, Southside Jacksonville’s next elementary school is being built as a step toward making Duval County Public Schools deliver new schools for less. The new Hogan-Spring Glen Elementary’s $43.7 million price tag is about $8...
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