Florida female student athletes have to report their menstrual history to play: When they got their first period, when they had their last one, etc. A third party has access to that info, and parents and doctors are raising red flags
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Authorities would not immediately say if the person found was Glee's Naya Rivera, but said the day after she disappeared that they believed she drowned in the lake northwest of Los Angeles.
After months of hard campaigning and millions of dollars spent between both sides, Democrat Donna Deegan defeats Republican Daniel Davis to become Jacksonville's first female mayor.
The case is the first case of pediatric tetanus in Oregon in more than 30 years and alarmed infectious disease experts who said tetanus is almost unheard of in the U.S. since widespread immunization began in the 1940s.
✔ Escape room.
✔ Ride a Zamboni.
✔ Monster Truck Jam.
At just 19 and under hospice care, Dustin Snyder had one more thing to check of his Bucket List: marry the girl of his dreams.
Thanks to social media, he did just that on Sunday. Here's how.
“I intend to take care of my family, have some fun along the way and cement a path for financial success so that I can leave a legacy far into the future," said Shane Missler.
As of Friday morning, New York has had 39,140 confirmed coronavirus case and 461 deaths. Now, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s has said he needs 30,000 ventilators “at a minimum” to meet the peak of the outbreak in his state in a couple of weeks.
Rubbing alcohol and alcohol swabs or wipes are the latest products swept up by the nation’s demand for anything and everything seen as a disinfectant against the novel coronavirus – by hospitals and average consumers alike.
VIDEO | More than a month after Hurricane Dorian blew through, a starving, dehydrated, too weak to even whine dog, now named Miracle, is pulled from the rubble in the Bahamas.
Is this photo, posted on Reddit Thursday, claiming to show severely ill COVID patients lying on the ground at the Main Library waiting for monoclonal therapy real? A city official said yes.
JUST IN | Danny Ray Beard, 36, the ex-fiance of Navy Chief Petty Officer Andrea Washington who was found dead in her Northside home in September, has been arrested and charged with her murder.
A law enforcement official told The Associated Press that Ian David Long had Facebook and Instagram accounts and that he posted during the attack about his mental state and whether people would believe he was sane.
UPDATED | St. Johns County beaches were finally closed on Saturday at 6 p.m., after a day of controversy in which the county was the object of scorn on social media after images of packed beaches made the Internet rounds.
"Shad Khan and the Jaguars chose Trent Baalke over the entire city of Jacksonville. I'm out."
#DUUUVAL
is not happy after it was reported Byron Leftwich was withdrawing his name from the Jaguars' head coach search.
Seventy-year-old Gene Dykes surpassed the world’s fastest-ever time for the 70-74 age group at Saturday morning's Ameris Bank Marathon. Read more about the event.
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Laterrian Moore lost his father, Doran, a few months before graduation. Pushing forward, he graduated from Stanton College Preparatory School with an International Baccalaureate diploma and has been awarded a full scholarship to the University of Miami.
Attorney Rhonda Peoples Waters won her election against incumbent Duval County Judge Erin Perry, becoming Duval County's first Black woman elected to the bench.
Four months before a Chinese woman was accused of lying to get into Mar-a-Lago, an 18-year-old college freshman in November fooled Secret Service agents into thinking he was a club member and wandered the grounds for 20 minutes before he was arrested.
Larry Johnson, a former head of criminal investigations for the U.S. Secret Service, said that bomb makers usually leave evidence behind. “If there is a human involved, there is a high probability you’re going to get somewhere investigatively,” he said.
Graham is the coach of one of three local flag football teams sponsored by the Jaguars that’ll be competing in Las Vegas during the coming Pro Bowl weekend.
The
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playoff appearance "is an event that should be shared with as many people as possible, across all spectrums, who call Jacksonville their home,” Khan said.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will sign into law a bill that would prevent social media companies Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube from “deplatforming” politicians like former President Trump from their platforms.
The bill was approved Thursday.
NATE MONROE | "It's telling the governor couldn't find a public school that would have him for signing a bill almost no one in public education asked for or believed is necessary."
Don't get mad. But after more than 40 years at First Coast News, Jacksonville TV news consumer reporter Ken Amaro is set to retire at the end of this month.
FSU-Florida Gators 2022 is getting a new day. Television networks, specifically ESPN College Football Friday Primetime, embrace Friday games and the unique exposure they bring to programs and cities during the regular season.
Thursday is when, on average, car wrecks are likely to kill more Americans than any other day of the year, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Here's why.
A Jacksonville community leader was arrested and escorted from his motorized wheelchair Tuesday after being told he was trespassing at the governor's COVID-19 news briefing.
Kristen Stewart was already expected to be in the Oscar best actress conversation for the showcase, but expectations have shot up with the first footage of her in her role as Princess Diana.
Just days after after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis won a court victory to keep felons from voting until they've paid off fines, restitution and court fees, billionaire Mike Bloomberg has stepped in to help them pay off the debts.
, the title sponsor for the Jaguars’ season finale game against the Indianapolis Colts, is suing to get its name removed over fans’ planning to dress as clowns to protest the abysmal season.
JUST IN | Florida’s former top coronavirus data scientist filed a whistleblower complaint Thursday that accuses Gov. Ron DeSantis’ health agency of seeking to falsify statistics to justify the state’s reopening from the coronavirus pandemic in May.
JUST IN | Businessman Carlton H. Spence has given Feeding Northeast Florida a 45,000-square-foot warehouse, including 33,000 square feet of critical freezer and cooler space.
For free.
The
#Jaguars
held the first organized protest by a professional sports team in the country on Friday when players, coaches, staff and their families marched from TIAA Bank Field to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office headquarters.
NATE MONROE | "For someone who insists he is neither a racist nor a homophobe, DeSantis has amassed an impressive array of incidents that appear to be both racist and homophobic. He is either cosmically unlucky or a liar."
@apantazi
Francis said he's never seen an incident like this and even major past events don’t compare, but that more than 80 JFRD responders arrived. The latest:
For many, Florida has changed.
What was once a proudly purple state has turned an angry red, they say, having become a less friendly place amid Gov. Ron DeSantis's war on "wokeism."
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The City Council's Finance Committee voted 7-0 in favor Tuesday morning of a new $120 million football complex whose cost would be split 50-50 between team owner Shad Khan and the city. Deliberations lasted just 18 minutes.
COMMENTARY | You entertained the delusions of a madman, and you succumbed to his will. You indulged his baseless conspiracy theories about a stolen national election, and you were at the ready to endorse his effort to remain in power
JUST IN |
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owner Shad Khan will be the majority investor in the Black News Channel, which debuts on Nov. 15 to an estimated 33 million cable and satellite households in the U.S.
“I’ve been without football for quite a while and I’m super excited to get out there and make a few plays to help the team win,”
#Jaguars
rookie Dede Westbrook said.
BREAKING | Fellow Duval County Canvassing Board member Michael Boylan said the board's leader, Brent Shore, should resign in the wake of reporting from the Times-Union that Shore, a county judge, donated to Donald Trump's campaign a dozen times.
NATE MONROE | State officials hoped to humiliate local school leaders who defied Gov. Ron DeSantis on mask mandates, but only ended up embarrassing themselves.
A bit of history was made Saturday afternoon when the Jacksonville Jaguars made their sixth-round pick. Cornerback Gregory Junior is the first player drafted from Ouachita Baptist, a Division II school in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.
″I feel pretty good, I’m just trying to get better each day,″
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undrafted free agent cornerback Dee Delaney said. ″I’m just trying to show everything that I learned at the Citadel.″
With the help of former
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RB Fred Taylor, Yannick Nagakoue, Calais Campbell, Keelan Cole and Dede Westbrook show off the team's new uniforms at the Uniform Launch and Draft Party on Thursday night at EverBank Field.
"That is heartbreaking as physicians, as healthcare providers," Tien said during a press conference this week. "To not be able to provide that service because of a restriction for a patient in such a terrible and violent situation, it is horrible."
Charlotte Joyce won re-election to the Duval County School Board, while April Carney was voted in. Both were backed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and had the support of conservative group Moms for Liberty.
Read more at .
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#floridaprimary2022
It what was billed as the first naturalization ceremony conducted at a NFL game, 65 immigrants became United States citizens during halftime at Sunday's Jaguars game.
"I guess back home they call it the Brandon Bowl."
Just call it
#BrandonBowl
I:
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quarterback Gardner Minshew faced a defender from his old high school in Saints linebacker Demario Davis, and received some encouragement along the way.
Most high school football coaches pull double duty in the classroom. But few are like 34-year Fletcher High School coach Kevin Brown.
Here's what sets him apart.
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Fire department spokesman Tom Francis identified the Boeing 737 as a chartered aircraft from Miami Air, and said its rescue units transported 21 adults from the site to area hospitals.
BREAKING: Times-Union reporter Nate Monroe received conformation from the Jacksonville Transit Authority that the agency was told to stop its Acosta Bridge Pride flag scheme. The lights — which were just announced Monday to celebrate
#PrideMonth
— are off one day later.
The looping design of a proposed 151-foot statue that spells "Jax" or "derp" or maybe something else or perhaps nothing all — depending on your perspective — has divided public opinion as surely as the river splits Jacksonville.
“This isn’t about cutting a check, however. It’s about all of us making a commitment of our time and resources." Jaguars owner Shad Khan is investing $1 million in a partnership with LIFT JAX and the historic Eastside Community Development Corp.
“If DeSantis were as concerned about stopping COVID-19 spread as he was about coming up with these clever jabs about Dr. Fauci, we might not be in this position," said a Miami cardiologist.