Sooner or Gator, no cheap BCS seat

FORT LAUDERDALE - It's not easy for a Florida football fan to land a ticket at face value for Thursday's BCS national championship game against Oklahoma. [ More ]

Safety in numbers: A campus crime report

When parents drop their children off at college, they'll often give these words of advice: "Please be safe." [ More ]

Judge tosses murder conviction
A judge granted a rare prosecution request Monday to throw out a jury's first-degree murder conviction of a Jacksonville teen who took part in the brutal 2005 slaying of a man who was beaten, stabbed and set on fire.

When in the South, love it or leave it
OK, I've had it. This is to person who wants to tell "people out there who like to fly the Confederate flag all over the place ..." - this is the South, thank God, and if you don't like it, then you can go back up North ... We didn't invite you down here and we're certainly won't cry when you leave. Just one little favor though: When you go, please take one or more Yankee[s] with you.

Proposed cuts to social services come under fire
TALLAHASSEE - Florida lawmakers opened a budget-cutting special session Monday with anti-crime and social service advocates warning that dollars saved could cost the public's safety.

Mayport civic group, Port at impasse
After a month of negotiations, the Jacksonville Port Authority has failed to reach an agreement with Mayport groups that would pave the way for a cruise ship terminal to be built in the village.

For-sale vacant schools voted on tonight
The Duval County School Board is likely to give its OK tonight for the district to sell three old school buildings - each for less than half the value of its lowest appraisal.

Jacksonville Journal
Clergy consecrate cemetery grounds

Martin Luther King Jr. Calendar
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