Jacksonville University News

The Jacksonville Children's Chorus is presenting "The Cool Side of Yule Tide" at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec.

A former postal supervisor pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing mail sent to Jacksonville University students and other customers and faces up to five years in prison.

The rain didn't dampen the enthusiasm of the friends and family of the more than 300 students who received their degrees at Jacksonville University's annual fall commencement ceremony Saturday.

A real bell ringer was offered during the commission's meeting last week by Matthew Corrigan, the chair of the political science department at the University of North Florida.

Mayor's Hispanic American Advisory Board and First Coast Hispanic Chamber of Commerce The First Coast Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Mayor's Hispanic American Advisory Board recently presented 16 students the "Achieving the Dream" scholarship.

MBA students at Jacksonville University will soon get another type of education added to their curriculum: How to take care of themselves.

Here are highlights from residents on the Southside and in surrounding neighborhoods: - Sixteen Hispanic local graduate and undergraduate students received the 2009 "Achieving the Dream" scholarship at a luncheon held recently.

Budget cutbacks have forced government offices to 'think outside of the box' to find ways to do more with less.

Mike Huckabee arrived at Jacksonville University to speak to students Wednesday evening where he found himself answering questions about a former Arkansas inmate.

The 2009 Playwrights' Project, a festival featuring one-act plays written and directed by University of North Florida students, will be presented at two venues on Dec.

BRUCE LIPSKY/The Times-Union Zach Lautzenheiser, an instructor, and student Eric Gaiser leave Craig Municipal Airport en route to St.

By no coincidence, the top three Republican presidential candidates for 2012 have circulated through Northeast Florida in the past month.

John Pemberton/The Times-Union During his visit Wednesday to Jacksonville University, former Arkansas Gov.

Jacksonville Sheriff's officers are spending the morning canvassing a neighborhood near Jacksonville University after a firefighter is shot and killed at a gas station parking lot.

Police have reported no arrests in the fatal shooting of an off-duty Jacksonville firefighter outside a closed Arlington gas station near Jacksonville University this morning.

A man was found lying dead next to a car at a BP station near University Boulevard and Fort Caroline Road early today, Tuesday.

Roger Bull/The Times-Union Joseph McCann, dean and professor of management at Davis College of Business at Jacksonville University, and Harvey Slentz, an attorney who also teaches at JU, helped draft possibilities for the Postal Service on how to change its business model.

KELLY JORDAN/The Times-Union Merrill Road Elementary School second-graders Danielle Allen Michael Mattle and Christopher Correa peek at pages as JU senior Sarah Stiriz reads to them in class.

Armed with FDA approval, Jacksonville-based software developer Viztek is looking for a record second year.

Janet Lee Simpson, 84, of Ponte Vedra Beach, signs books Thursday for aviation students at Jacksonville University.