Top Jacksonville Area Local News Stories
Source: News 4 Jax - Local News
Channel 4 has learned that the city of Jacksonville and the company who ran a city-owned landfill for the past 20 years have come to a verbal agreement that could avoid defending a lawsuit in court.
Published: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:01:58 EDT
Troopers are investigating an accident Saturday in Sumter County that killed four people when a truck hit two motorcycles head on.
Published: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:27:00 EDT
A 21-year-old U.S. Marine on his way home to Alabama after a tour of duty in Iraq was killed in a head-on collision near Six Flags.
Published: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:31:53 EDT
Florida Highway Patrol officers say a suspect was driving drunk before deadly crash.
Published: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:59:01 EDT
One man is behind bars and Clay County deputies are seeking a second man after a home-invasion robbery early Monday morning in Orange Park.
Published: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:35:59 EDT
Two Palm Coast men were arrested in separate cases that totaled more than 45 counts of possession of child pornography.
Published: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:57:50 EDT
Saturday would have been Raynold Orelus's 46th birthday. Instead, his family says goodbye at the emotional funeral of the McDonald's maintenance worker gunned down on the job.
Published: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:40:19 EDT
A woman known as an early supporter of Jacksonville's gay community who also led fight against AIDS was remembered as a friend and a pioneer.
Published: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:20:14 EDT
The man police say barricaded himself in an Eastside home for hours early Saturday went before a judge Sunday morning.
Published: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:51:03 EDT
Police are asking the public to help catch the person who sexually assaulted a young woman, battered her and left her for dead on the beach not far from the Jacksonville Beach Pier early Saturday morning.
Published: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:59:37 EDT
Glynn County firefighters battle a fire of a train carrying automobiles and the trestle carrying the rail cars to the Port of Brunswick. Video: Train Trestle, On Fire
Published: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:57:55 EDT
The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating the handling of phone calls that came into dispatchers about an erratic driver who allegedly knocked an SUV off the Buckman Bridge.
Published: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:53:05 EDT
City, state and federal officials joined executives of a French company to break ground at Cecil Commence for a $200 million plant that will build advanced batteries for use in hybrid vehicles, aviation, renewable energy storage and other uses.
Published: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:55:17 EDT
Police say a 16-year-old autistic girl who left her Jacksonville Beach home on a bicycle was found safe in Mayport before midnight Sunday.
Published: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:42:44 EDT
An Amber Alert issued for an unknown boy issued out of Suwannee County Sunday night was canceled. Police say the boy is safe.
Published: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:07:23 EDT
The Florida Gators and Florida State Seminoles were among the 65 teams to see their names pop up on NCAA Selection Sunday.
Published: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:52:18 EDT
More than 13,000 people -- elite runners looking for a 15K championship and prize money to weekend joggers whose goal is to finish the course -- run the streets and over the bridges of Jacksonville Saturday morning.
Published: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:25:13 EST
St. Marys police said the skeletal remains recovered from a wooded area along the southwest side of Seagrove Street on Feb. 23 have been identified.
Published: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:49:32 EST
Response to last week's community meeting addressing projected budget cuts for Duval County schools was so large, meetings this Tuesday and Thursday are being moved to larger auditoriums.
Published: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:30:21 EDT
Two Jacksonville fishermen had a close encounter with a large right whale off the coast of Jacksonville Beach.
Published: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:44:46 EDT