Duval County

A Jacksonville man has been charged with murder after the shooting death of an accomplice in a Mayport burglary attempt. Cameron Tallon Smith, 21, was charged Thursday after a resident of a house on Cypress Landing Drive shot a man during a breakin....

Duval County students who fall behind in their class work next year may not be able to use a popular computer program to catch up. Superintendent Nikolai Vitti told the School Board Thursday that he wants to rid the district of CompassLearning Odyssey,...

Gunfire erupted Wednesday afternoon in a crowded parking garage at Jacksonville International Airport as police tried to apprehend a car-theft suspect. Police wounded one assailant, took another in custody and are hunting for at least a third. It...

A Jacksonville police report says a 13-year-old girl, whose parent or guardian had a suspended license, was at the wheel of an Infiniti sport-utility vehicle involved in a hit-and-run Monday that injured four Arlington Middle School students. But a...

A rough draft of the 2013-14 Duval County Public Schools budget contained two figures that left School Board members confused and the superintendent taking responsibility for the error. During a budget workshop last week, Superintendent Nikolai Vitti...

Some fire doors inside the Duval County Courthouse failed safety tests over the weekend, just days after the year-old building received final approval for occupancy because it met building codes. A "fire watch" has been set up inside the 800,000-square-...

A household hazardous waste and electronic waste mobile collection event will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Jacksonville Beach Public Works Operations and Maintenance Facility parking lot at 1460 Shetter Ave. Free paper shredding will be...

Starting this fall, all 183 Duval County schools will not be lumped in clusters based on grades taught in the school. Instead, Superintendent Nikolai Vitti is grouping schools into four "areas" based on how elementary school students have typically...

An appeals court in Tallahassee on Wednesday halted a Jacksonville judge's ruling to ban a teenage girl from attending any public school in Duval County. The 14-year-old student from Oceanway Middle School is facing trial in juvenile court for...

Ja,nyiah Knight was making a "spectacle" of herself Tuesday at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens. To match the wire glasses she made at the Jacksonville museum on Riverside Avenue, the West Riverside Elementary School student twisted more colored...

Daniela Simic came to Jacksonville to become the chief of strategic planning and partnerships for Duval County Public Schools. Now, after five months on the job, Superintendent Nikolai Vitti has eliminated Simic's job and made her the chief of...

Police in Jacksonville, Fla., say a man has confessed to using a hammer to bludgeon to death a pastor from Newport News earlier this week. Apostle John Henry Bowser, 76, was found dead in a home at 1625 N. Market St. in Jacksonville just before noon...