Duval County News Archives

A 43-year-old Nassau County teacher is in Duval County jail for allegedly carrying on a two year relationship with a student.

The Duval County health department confirms that a 57 year-old woman has died from the swine flu.

A suspect has been charged after a retirement-age Jacksonville woman was repeatedly raped one night at her home in the Riverside-Avondale area.

Hartsfield arrested in Collier shooting. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Jury selection in the trial of Tyrone Hartsfield began in a Duval County courtroom on Monday.

Tony Bellamy may have the toughest job in education on the First Coast. He's not a teacher in a high-needs school or a principal of a large urban high school, although he's done both of those painstaking and important tasks.

Residents in Sawgrass Players Club's Oakbridge area expressed relief this week after an arrest was made in the slaying of 92-year-old Alyce Bowles, one of their neighbors.

Jacksonville City Council Vice President Jack Webb resigned his role heading a landfill expansion oversight committee Wednesday, days after his legal representation of a potential bidder on the project became public.

A man behind bars for another violent crime is now being charged with the murder of a 92 year-old woman.

The sheriff's office has arrested Richard Medeiros for the murder of Alyce Bowles.

In an effort to promote professionalism and civility in the courtroom, the Young Lawyers Section of The Jacksonville Bar Association hosted its annual 'Afternoon in the Courthouse' program to educate new lawyers on the Duval County Courthouse and the etiquette and procedures of the Fourth Judicial Circuit.

Some of us on the edges, bathed in shadowy uncertainty, watch Escambia county and city governments fume and fuss about money, public service, sometimes absurdities, with little emotional energy except when fired by fears of wrongdoing.

The lobby of Guy Benrubi's obstetrics clinic looked like the staging area for a massive disaster-relief effort this morning -- and, in a way, it was.

A dozen Duval County patients have now died from the H-1-N-1 Swine Flu virus. The health department in Jacksonville confirms a 50-year-old woman died from the flu strain October 4. To date, there have been 109 laboratory confirmed H1N1 Swine Flu deaths in Florida.

The 12th swine flu death in the county was confirmed Wednesday. A 50-year-old female who died Oct.

The final formality of last week's election is complete. The vote was Tuesday, followed by the certification of the results.

Submitted by David Hunt on Wed, 10/07/2009 - 10:41. Marco Rubio, whose U.S. Senate campaign against Gov.

MARY JUSTINO/SpecialClay and Duval County residents brought about 14 tons of paper to the Clay County Sheriff's Office's recent Shred A Thon, designed to help residents protect themselves from identity theft.

Duval County Public Schools Superintendent Ed Pratt-Dannals told about 160 educators and district advocates Tuesday that the district is headed in the right direction.

The Jacksonville Sheriffa TMs Office arrested a suspect Wednesday in two armed-robberies at Nassau County grocery stores.

Revisions to Duval County's school policy, a new agreement with Jacksonville police and a proposed new program are aiming to decrease the number of students arrested for petty crimes at school.

A federal judge has dismissed a sexual harassment and discrimination case filed two years ago by a former assistant principal against the Duval County School Board.

The race is on. The first Tuesday in March 2011, the voters of Jacksonville, Duval County will go to the polls and most likely choose their next Mayor.

Turnout is expected to be extremely light in Tuesday's special election to fill the seat of late Sen.

Voters in parts of Duval County have the opportunity to head to the polls Tuesday.

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The long and likely expensive march to the 2011 Jacksonville mayoral election has begun, with the first two high-profile candidates officially entering the race.