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Fla. Woman Gets 20 Years For Firing Warning Shot

AP | MITCH STACY | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Jacksonville, Video, Stand Your Ground, Self Defense, Tampa, Marissa Alexander Case, Marissa Alexander, Naacp, Crime News

TAMPA, Fla. -- Marissa Alexander had never been arrested before she fired a bullet at a wall one day in 2010 to scare off her husband when she felt he...

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Want To Move Toward Happiness? Try One Of These Cities

Posted 05.18.2012

You want to be happy. Telecommuting from your parents' basement will likely get in the way. Considering this, CareerBliss.com released its list of ...

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City May Soon Charge Fee To Sit In Park

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Jacksonville, State Budgets, Video, State Jounral-Register, Fiscal Year, North Las Vegas, Budget Gaps, Picnic, City Council, Wallet, Legislation, National Parks, Central Falls, City Park, City Budget, Business News

Imagine having to pay to sit on the grass. That could be happening soon in North Las Vegas, where the city council is considering charging residen...

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Plea Deal Unlikely For 12-Year-Old Murder Suspect

Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: First Degree Murder, Jacksonville, Video, Cristian Fernandez, Cristian Fernandez Murder, Cristian Fernandez 12-Year-Old Murder Suspect, Florida Crime, Cristian Fernandez Case, Florida, Crime News

A 12-year-old boy could spend life in prison when he is tried as an adult for the murder of his two-year-old brother. Cristian Fernandez is the you...

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Teacher Allegedly Choked, Pinned Student Against Wall

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: Jacksonville, Video, Jacksonville Schools, Student Crime, Jacksonville Florida, School Crime, Middle School Crime, Teacher Crimes, Education News

Frederick Richardson, a Jacksonville, Fla. middle school teacher, has been accused of choking and pinning a student against a concrete wall, and faces...

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Sex Offender Dad Wins Custody Of Florida 3-Year-Old, Grandmother Outraged

Sonja Sharp | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Jacksonville, Video, Sex Offender, Miranda Wilkerson, Custody Battle, Florida, Donald Coleman, Rita Manning, Adoption, Crime News

The bitter custody fight for Florida preschooler Miranda Wilkerson ended last week when a Jacksonville judge shifted guardianship from the 3-year-old'...

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Budget Cuts May Spell No More High School Football

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jacksonville, Rick Scott, Florida, Extra-Curricular Activities, After-School Programs, School Sports, Football, Education News

High school football is undeniably a focal point in many American communities. Friday nights find students, parents, teachers, alumni and other locals...

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The Search for an Old Sailor

Charlie Carillo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jacksonville, U.S. Naval Base, Florida, Nostalgia, United States Navy, Family, New York News

Whenever my 85-year-old father gets nostalgic he enjoys talking about all the mischief he got into with his best pal, Bob, back when he was an 18-year-old sailor in the United States Navy.

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Colo. printer creating jobs in Florida

Denver Business Journal | Denver Business Journal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jacksonville, Boulder-Colorado, Home News

Signature Offset Inc., a printing company based in Boulder, Colo., plans to add about 30 jobs to Jacksonville and invest $3 million in its new facilit...

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Searching for the Next Dorothy (VIDEO)

Tom Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: St. Louis, Atlanta, The Wizard of Oz, Harolod Arlen Foundation, Jacksonville, The Dorothy Project, Wizard the Musical, Harold Arlen, Talent Competition, Judy Garland, Audition, Paramus, Entertainment News

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The U.S. Cities Most Vulnerable To Having Their Jobs Shipped Overseas: Richard Florida

The Atlantic | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jacksonville, Offshoring, Alan Blinder, Sioux Falls, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Martin Prosperity Institute, San Antonio, Jobs, Omaha, Atlanta, South Dakota, Kansas City, Outsourcing, Mckinsey, Phoenix, Philadelphia, Cities, Dallas, Business News

Traditionally, the United States has worried about the offshoring of manufacturing jobs. But concern is mounting that as the rest of the world becomes...

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It Takes a City to Raze a Library

Randy Susan Meyers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Libraries, Boston, Jacksonville, Library Closings, Books News

For many, libraries are the only safe haven around, and yet Boston, Massachusetts, Jacksonville, Florida, and Los Angles, California are just three of the cities considering closing libraries to deal with budget shortfalls.

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Terrorism Against Jacksonville, Florida Islamic Community Goes Under-Reported

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jacksonville, Domestic Terrorism, Anti-Muslim-Attack, Media Criticism, Eat the Press, Media News

Hhave you heard about all the terrorist attacks that have been going on down in the Jacksonville, Florida region? Probably not, because the would-be victims of these attacks have been members of Florida's Islamic community.

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Is There a Media Bias?

Parvez Ahmed | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Media Criticism, Jacksonville, Hate Crimes, Islamic Center, Mosque, Media News

Decrying the national media's silence as bias solidifies the misperception that the Muslim community is perpetually playing the victim card.

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No Fly List Match Diverts Newark Flight To Jacksonville

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terrorist Watch List, Jacksonville, Newark, Jacksonville International Airport, Colombia, Terrorism, Bogota, No-Fly, No Fly List, Newark Airport, New York News

WASHINGTON — A Continental Airlines jet flying from Newark, N.J., to Bogota was diverted to Jacksonville, Fla., on Friday over concerns a passen...

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Man Gets Life In Order For 36 Minutes

The Onion | The Onion | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jacksonville, Home News

JACKSONVILLE, FL—"It was nice to get some chores out of the way," Terry Oberlin told reporters later, acknowledging that for more than half an h...

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Jacksonville LIVE on Twitter: Local News, Sports, People

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jacksonville Twitter, Jacksonville, Jacksonville Tweets, Jacksonville Sports, Jacksonville News, Jacksonville People, Jacksonville Breaking News Twitter, Jacksonville Live Tweets, Jacksonville Live on Twitter, Home News

Follow the latest in Jacksonville LIVE through our curated Twitter lists: local news, local sports, and local people via tweets. Do you know a twee...

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Child's Body Found, Believed To Be Somer Thompson

AP | RON WORD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Missing Child, Jacksonville, Orange Park, Child's Body Found, Abduction, Body Found, Kidnapping, Somer Thompson, Georgia Landfill, Home News

ORANGE PARK, Fla. — Authorities say they have not identified a child's body they found Wednesday in a landfill while searching for a missing 7-y...

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Thank God It's Thursday: The High Strung Plays Guantanamo Bay, Beyoncé Discounts What You Pay, and Woody Allen's So Far Away

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alessandra Ferri, Broken Social Scene, Charity, Spoletto 52, Woody Allen, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Jacksonville, Derek Berk, Los Campesinons, Pina Bausch, Alexei Ratmansky, Tanztheater Wuppertal, London, England, The High Strung, Guantanamo Bay, Ticketmaster, Feeding America, Wayne McGregor, Robert Wilson, Super Furry Animals, Park the Van Records, Detroit, Florida, Memorial Day, Krapp's Last Tape, Library, Beyoncé, General Mills, Madison Sqare Garden, American Ballet Theatre, Christopher Wheeldon, Las Vegas, Thierry Mugler, New York, Giorgio Ferrara, Festival Dei 2 Mondi, David Newfield, telegraph.co.uk, Hamburger Helper, O2, Gianni Schicchi, Entertainment News, Samuel Beckett, O2 Arena, Spoletto, Zagreb, Entertainment News

This installment of Thank God It's Thursday plucks some recent press releases (left mostly intact) that might make you say "OMG" or "WTF", or possibly, "Swear you'll never, ever do this again."

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Popeye's Chicken In Jacksonville: ROBBED For HOT WINGS!

ABC Action News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robbed, Jacksonville, Popeye's Chicken, Jacksonville Robbed, Popeye's Chicken Jacksonville Robbed, Popeye's Chicken Jacksonville, Home News

Jacksonville police are searching for some crooks who robbed a couple of their Popeye's Chicken. Authorities say four unknown men drove by several ...

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Palin Likens Her Supporters to the Worst Fans in Baseball

Disgrasian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sarah Palin Vp, Baseball, Tampa Bay Rays, Florida Republican Party, Scott Mcclellan, Major League Baseball, McCain-Palin Supporters, Baseball Fans, McCain-Palin 2008, Jacksonville, Mccain-Palin, Florida Polls, Sports Fan, Voter Turnout, Voters, Florida Repubican Campaigning, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Vice President, Republican Voters, Republicans, Boston Red Sox, The Devil Rays, The Rays, Sports Fan Support, Alcs, Fan Attendance, Politics News

As if I needed one more reason to loathe Sarah Palin, here's another: she likened the Republican presidential ticket to the Tampa Bay Rays.

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