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One person is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries following a shooting at a Wendy’s in Jacksonville, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
The city of Jacksonville is rolling out plans to clean up Lonnie C. Miller Park in Northwest Jacksonville.
Just a week before Christmas, the home-building process officially began for five homes that will soon be dedicated to veterans and military-connected families in Northwest Jacksonville.
A school crossing guard was arrested after a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office investigation into a Sunday morning hit-and-run crash in Northwest Jacksonville.
Cure Violence was announced with a lot of fanfare back in 2019. At first, the data suggested it was making a difference. Then it ended in 2023 and the city pulled funding in March 2024. The Office of Inspector General says it launched its investigation to find out why the city terminated the contract.
After years of planning, a goal to make major upgrades to a roughly 10-block stretch of Moncrief Road in Northwest Jacksonville is getting a big boost.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Bomb Squad is being sent to the Beaver Street Enterprise Center in Northwest Jacksonville after receiving reports of a “suspicious package” at the polling site, according to officials.
At approximately 1:30 a.m., the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office and the Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department responded to a structure fire on Cranbrook Ct.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office addressed crime concerns from Northwest Jacksonville residents at Thursday’s District 5 town hall meeting.
Q. A Jacksonville Today reader, Courtney S., wants to know whether it’s legal for political groups to hang out near polling locations and hand out pamphlets to voters.
Wednesday marks 11 years since Megan Simmons died after someone fired multiple shots into the home where she was staying. Her friend, Jazmine Shelton, 13, was also shot in the attack. Jazmine died at the scene, but Megan died four days later.
Democratic incumbent Kimberly Daniels defeated two primary challengers in Florida House District 14, which covers from Brooklyn and downtown north to include a sliver of Northwest Jacksonville and much of the Northside east of Lem Turner Road and south of Interstate 295 as well as Arlington and part of the Southside north of the Hart Expressway to Beach Boulevard and west of Southside Boulevard.
Democrat Angie Nixon is seeking re-election in Florida House District 13, which covers most of Northwest Jacksonville and the near Westside, west of I-95, north of 103rd Street, east of Chaffee Road and McGirts Creek.
An arrest was made in a 2023 shooting in Moncrief that left a father of six dead almost one year after it happened.
The City of Jacksonville will host a tour of one of its cooling centers Monday morning.
A man was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after being shot in Northwest Jacksonville Saturday morning, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
A Jacksonville family gathered at the Dinsmore Cemetery Sunday afternoon to honor the life of a young man who disappeared 24 years ago and whose remains were found a year later in Palatka.
A 14-year-old was fatally shot Monday evening at a home in the Sherwood Forest neighborhood of Northwest Jacksonville, police said.
More than 10 years after two teenage girls were killed in a drive-by shooting in Northwest Jacksonville, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is reopening the case hoping technology may bring new leads that could result in an arrest.
A Jacksonville activist group said Thursday it is strongly against the city’s multi-million dollar plan to renovate EverBank Stadium, home of the Jacksonville Jaguars.
It was the first of five community huddles after the city and the Jaguars announced the plan for a 50-50 split of the $1.25 billion “Stadium of the Future” renovation project.
A large tree and power line that was knocked down due to severe weather in Northwest Jacksonville is causing issues for residents.
Local businesses are partnering to address food insecurity on Jacksonville’s Northside.
A new crime-fighting tool in Jacksonville is solving crimes all over the city and you can be a part of helping with it.
There have been five shootings involving teens in Jacksonville over the last few months. Three were in Northwest Jacksonville, one was in the downtown area and the other was on the Westside.
The Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) announced upcoming changes to more than 100 bus stops in Northwest Jacksonville to improve the experience for riders in underserved areas.
A man in his late 20s or early 30s was found dead on the side of the road in a field area in Northwest Jacksonville on Saturday shortly after 8:00 a.m., according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
A juvenile was transported to a local hospital after a bullet fired from outside a home struck her in the foot Saturday morning, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
District 10 Councilwoman Ju’Coby Pittman is laying out her plan to help the community she serves.
Jacksonville police are searching for two men caught on camera leaving a shooting scene after a man was sent to the hospital Thursday in critical condition.
At least five young children have been the unintentional victims of gunfire over the past six months in Jacksonville, but there’s only been an arrest made in one of those cases.
Jacksonville reported 158 homicides in 2023 -- with 126 of those classified as murders -- a decrease of 6% from the year before.
A 14-year-old was fatally shot Monday evening at a home in the Sherwood Forest neighborhood of Northwest Jacksonville, police said.
Over the weekend, there have been a rash of shootings in Jacksonville. News4JAX wants so hear from you as you either attend holiday events or finish off Christmas shopping. Do you feel safe going out for the holidays? Sound off in the Hearken.
Violent crime involving youth is a problem in Jacksonville with parts of the city riddled with gun violence and poverty.
A woman was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after she was shot in Northwest Jacksonville Friday night, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
A woman who was shot several times in the back in Northwest Jacksonville is recovering after the scary incident.
Donations are steadily pouring in for a Northwest Jacksonville barber shop that hosts an annual community Christmas party.
The man accused of fatally hitting a Northwest Jacksonville mother and 1-year-old child while they were visiting Tennessee made his first court appearance Tuesday.
Thanks to many of our News4JAX viewers, hundreds of children in Northwest Jacksonville will be able to receive new toys at an annual community Christmas party later this month.
An annual event that helps children from less fortunate households is in jeopardy of not being able to provide new toys and clothing to hundreds of kids this Christmas holiday.
As preparations are underway for the reopening of the Dollar General where three people were killed in August, a nearby resident is giving a new perspective on the brutal attack and how the community is faring now.
More than 100 families in Northwest Jacksonville will have a hot meal for Thanksgiving.
The Clara White Mission officially opened to the public their newest initiative named “Eartha’s Farm and Market” on Saturday morning in Northwest Jacksonville.
A woman in her late 30s was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds Monday morning after she was shot while waiting for an Uber in Northwest Jacksonville.
A 44-year-old woman was arrested Thursday after police said she shot two men in Northwest Jacksonville, leaving one man dead and another one critically injured.
One man was killed and another man was critically injured following an early morning shooting inside a home in Northwest Jacksonville.
A video of a fight showing what appears to be two adults and several teens, possibly students, in Northwest Jacksonville is sparking concern from the community.
City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to pass legislation against Florida PACE Funding Agency, which city leaders say is responsible for "predatory lending."
Six people between their late teens to mid-30s were injured Monday night when “at least two different shooters” fired at each other at a Northwest Jacksonville apartment complex, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said.
President Biden penned a statement Sunday in response to the racially motivated mass shooting that left three dead in a Black community in Northwest Jacksonville.
The Northwest Jacksonville community is shaken up and trying to figure out how to move forward after a shooter walked into a Dollar General on Kings Road and fired several shots, killing three people.
The property where a liquor store was projected to open across from an elementary school in Northwest Jacksonville will be purchased by the City of Jacksonville, according to Mayor Donna Deegan, who made the announcement at one of her most anticipated meetings.
After two years of construction, the brand-new Rutledge H. Pearson Elementary School opened its doors to students Monday for the start of the 2023-2024 school year.
A child was critically injured early Friday morning in a shooting in the Ribault area of Northwest Jacksonville.
Jacksonville is moving ahead with plans to fix a broken promise by putting people on city sewers instead of septic tanks. It could end up costing billions – over years - using both federal and local tax dollars
The mother of a teen who disappeared and whose remains were found a year later in the woods in Northwest Jacksonville is still hoping for justice five years later.
A shooting in Northwest Jacksonville on Monday night left three people injured, including a pregnant woman.
In 13 days, newly minted Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan will have to have a budget ready to present to the city council.
In Northwest Jacksonville members of the Dinsmore community gathered Tuesday to discuss what they call a “train problem.”
MAD DADS is speaking out with a warning after a woman was shot Sunday while attending a vigil for 16-year-old Adrian McKenzie, who was killed in a triple shooting last Wednesday in Northwest Jacksonville.
Police were called to a Northwest Jacksonville neighborhood Sunday afternoon after shots rang out during a memorial for a teen who was killed in a shooting last week.
The Duval County School Board will hold a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday to mark the beginning of a new place to learn for sixth through eighth graders.
State Attorney Melissa Nelson and Jacksonville Beach Police Chief Gene Paul Smith announced arrest of Mario Fernandez in the February 2022 murder of Jared Bridegan.
The food insecurity rate in Duval County is 12.6% and there are more than 117,000 food-insecure people, according to Feeding Northeast Florida.
The family of a man killed in a police shooting in Jacksonville spoke publicly Wednesday, the day after the body camera footage was released.
Months after finding an unresponsive man in an apartment on Kings Park Drive off Kings Road in Northwest Jacksonville, the Sheriff’s Office announced an arrest Friday in the man’s murder.
The 61-year-old man arrested in connection with the targeted ambush shooting of a father of four in Jacksonville Beach last year will be arraigned on the charges Feb. 16 -- a year to the day that Jared Bridegan was gunned down with his toddler daughter in the back seat of his SUV.
Nearly a year after a father of four was gunned down in what police believe was a targeted ambush shooting in Jacksonville Beach, police and the state attorney’s office announced an arrest in the case Wednesday.
The crime prevention program in Jacksonville known as Cure Violence could be closing one of its sites in the Moncrief neighborhood, and that has the surrounding community worried.
As of Jan. 17, 11 homicides had been reported in Jacksonville for the year 2023 — and the president of the Northside Coalition, is urging city leaders to consider new ways to curb violent crime.
Two people were shot — one of whom died from their injuries Monday afternoon in Northwest Jacksonville, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
A Northwest Jacksonville school that was described as dilapidated is in the middle of a major renovation.
According to News4JAX records, a third of the city’s homicides in 2022 took place in just three of Jacksonville’s 34 ZIP codes. And all three of those – 32206, 32209 and 32210 – are west of the St. Johns River.
An arrest has been made in connection to the killing of 13-year-old Prince Holland, who was fatally shot on the way home from football tryouts last month, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office announced Monday.
Prince Holland was laid to rest Saturday afternoon one week after he was fatally shot during a drive-by in Northwest Jacksonville.
Family, friends and community members met Friday night to remember the life of a 13-year-old Jacksonville boy, who was killed in a drive-by shooting last weekend.
There is a plan to revamp and boost business in Northwest Jacksonville. Many city leaders say it is long overdue.
It has been five days since 13-year-old Prince Holland was gunned down inside an SUV in Northwest Jacksonville while riding home from football tryouts. Since the drive-by shooting, First Coast Crime Stoppers has received only three tips from the public about the investigation.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s office is working nonstop to figure out who killed a 13-year-old during a drive-by shooting Saturday night.
The mother of the 13-year-old killed in a Saturday night drive-by shooting in Northwest Jacksonville has released the name of her son.
