Jacksonville News

Kicking can be a pain

The Florida Times-Union - Tue Nov 18

I have everything from Maroon 5 to Metallica to Jay-Z on my iPod. I've got a wide variety of music, even Frank Sinatra.

McDuffie nixes his family's testimony in penalty phase

Daytona Beach News-Journal Online - Tue Nov 18

Teary-eyed jurors listened to family members talk about their loved ones, murdered in a Deltona discount store six years ago, as the penalty phase of Roy Lee McDuffie's retrial began Tuesday.

Council balks at waste contract

The Florida Times Union - Tue Nov 18

Although Jacksonville Mayor John Peyton has reached an agreement with Waste Management to allow the company to continue operating the city's landfill, City Council members who must approve the deal remain ...

Helping hands and hearts: Ronald McDonald House's anniversary

Florida Times-Union - Tue Nov 18

RICK WILSON/The Times-Union Ronald McDonald House special event manager Mary Breedlove walks the halls last week with Sarah Jeremiah, 7, of Grenada, who is staying at the house while awaiting heart surgery.

Vigil Held For Victims Of Unsolved Homicides

WJXT-TV - Mon Nov 17

Families with one painful thing in common gathered on Monday evening on the Westside.

Latest business trend is going to the dogs

The Florida Times-Union - Mon Nov 17

But Disney, now 38, bears only a small scar and no hard feelings toward dogs. "It never affected me that way," she said of the traumatic experience.

Program will help children in need

The Florida Times Union - Sun Nov 16

A project inspired by a successful New York program that helps inner-city children now has a location and programming for its first phase in Jacksonville.

It's the running part that makes a hit-and-run wrong

Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel - Sun Nov 16

Hit and run, 2100 block of North Street. A woman said a man in a blue Chevy Blazer ran a red light and struck her vehicle.

SNL Has Biden Ready to Give a Train-Wreck Interview

Topix - Sun Nov 16

"Just name the time and the place and Joe Biden will bring the train."

Where life and death can intersect

The Florida Times Union - Sat Nov 15

Toby Henehan has come to believe that the two worst intersections in Jacksonville are on Kernan Road, at Beach and Atlantic boulevards.