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The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp are not putting in $30 million into their ballpark, the city is doing that for them

This won’t be a long story. I just see this type of thing on a daily basis, and it always bothers me. In today’s world, when you write a story about changes to a sports team venue, isn’t it vital to find out who is paying for those changes? Why do I see so many articles out there that discuss arena, ballpark, or stadium changes costing taxpayers countless millions yet, the topic of who pays for…

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Family of mail carrier killed in dog attack speaks out, demands accountability

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Family of mail carrier killed in dog attack speaks out, demands accountability

PUTNAM COUNTY, Fla. – The family of a Putnam County mail carrier fatally attacked by dogs in August is now demanding accountability. The News4JAX I-TEAM previously obtained documents showing the dogs’ owner was not charged in part because he had tried unsuccessfully to surrender them to Putnam County Animal Control twice — including just 10 […]

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This image was released of a “sea monster” in Georgia on March 16, 2018, according to News4Jax. The carcass that was found by Jeff Warren and his son looks strangely akin to a lake monster that is seen in the very area that it was discovered - St. Simon’s Island. Altamaha-ha, or Altie, has often been sighted in the waters in the area and the carcass looks surprisingly like eyewitness accounts.

“Warren sent the photo to News4Jax and said the creature was about 4 to 5 feet long with two fins, though only one can be seen in the picture. The creature has little teeth about one-eighth of an inch long.” People commenting on the news station’s facebook page are guessing everything from a decomposing frilled shark to a lamprey fish to a baby Loch Ness Monster.

However, an anonymous New York City artist that goes by Zardulu the Mythmaker claimed to be the creator of the carcass in September of 2018. She said she made the beast out of paper mache and a taxidermy shark. She claimed to have wanted to “breathe some new life” into the legend of Altamaha-ha.

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The Florida Legislature unanimously passed a bill that would allow police to immediately remove squatters — a departure from the lengthy court cases required in most states.

"It gives me a real feeling of positive hope that we still have the ability to discuss challenges in our society and work with our legislatures in a bipartisan way," Patti Peeples, a Sunshine State property owner who was barred from her own home after squatters refused to leave, told News4Jax.

The legislation, which passed both chambers earlier this month, would allow police to remove squatters without a lease authorized by the property owner and adds criminal penalties. Landlords, under the current law, typically have to wade through a long and expensive legal process to remove squatters.

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"Imagine for a moment that you leave from your day of serving the citizens of Florida as a senator and you return to your home," Peeples told the state Senate Criminal Justice Committee in February. "But when you walk in, there are strangers sitting on your sofa, watching your TV, eating your food."

"You ask who they are and what they are doing, and they tell you that they have rented this house and present you with a lease," she continued.

An advocacy group, Florida Rising, initially opposed the legislation, fearing landlords could abuse the measures to quickly boot legitimate tenants. But the group took a neutral position after amendments were added to protect legal occupants, a spokesperson told News4Jax.

The bill, now headed to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk, would also allow wrongfully evicted tenants to sue to regain access and recover attorneys’ fees and damages.

Last year, it took weeks for the squatters in Peeples’ home to get evicted. They had produced a lease and claimed they were rental scam victims — a strategy the squatters used previously, court records show.

By the time they were ousted, Peeples’ house was left with thousands of dollars worth of damage.

"I've had so many emotions," Peeples told Fox News in April. "I've had just intense anger, I have felt defeated, I felt wronged by the legal system, I felt wronged by the police system."

The squatters never faced criminal charges.

If the Florida legislation becomes law, intentionally presenting a phony lease would be designated as a misdemeanor, and selling or leasing someone else’s property would be a felony, as would causing more than $1,000 in property damage.

Flash Shelton, a handyman-turned-squatter hunter, recently told Fox News that squatting laws needed to become stricter so landlords could more easily boot illegal occupants. He pointed to Atlanta, where, according to the National Rental Home Council, around 1,200 homes have been taken over by squatters.

"If we were to criminalize it, that would enable us to send in the National Guard to sweep that whole neighborhood and get those 1,200 houses clear," Shelton told Fox News in February.

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Day 459 of posting pictures of elephants.

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Months before a gunman fired a swastika-covered rifle at Black shoppers in a Jacksonville, Florida Dollar General on Saturday, a white supremacist group spray-painted its logo and “reclaim America” on a city billboard.

A different white supremacist group posted racist stickers around Jacksonville months before that. Weeks earlier, a third white supremacist group projected a swastika onto a Jacksonville building, following a fourth white supremacist group that also used a laser projector to beam its own antisemitic message onto a Jacksonville building in late 2022.

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Saturday’s mass shooting, by a white gunman reported to have penned racist manifestos, was the latest incident in a drumbeat of racist violence targeting Jacksonville. Some of those displays have been “brazen,” part of an effort to terrorize minority communities in Florida, human rights organizations say.

“It is deeply disheartening that our Black communities live in constant fear of being targeted based on the color of their skin, unable to shop at their local store without the threat of violence,” the NAACP’s Jacksonville branch said in a statement. “It is particularly poignant that this event occurred on the anniversary of the mass shooting at the Jacksonville Landing five years ago and on the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington.”

Jacksonville is no stranger to racist attacks. Saturday’s mass shooting came one day before the 63rd anniversary of “Ax Handle Saturday,” an incident that saw approximately 200 white attackers descend on an anti-segregation protest in a Jacksonville park, where they bludgeoned the mostly Black demonstrators with baseball bats and ax handles.

In recent years, Jacksonville—and Florida as a whole—have seen a new surge in racist activity, data suggests. The Anti-Defamation League has recorded a multi-year upswing in Florida hate crimes, Jacksonville’s News4Jax reported in September.

Florida also ranked eighth on the ADL’s list of states with the highest levels of racist propaganda distribution in 2022. Some of that hate came from a cluster of new hate groups, like a Florida-based chapter of the antisemitic “Goyim Defense League” and the Jacksonville-based neo-Nazi group “NatSoc Florida.”

Both groups have used projectors to beam swastikas and antisemitic slogans on Jacksonville buildings in recent months. And leaders of both groups were stopped by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Department last October while holding antisemitic banners above a Jacksonville highway. First Coast News reported that the leader of the GDL was questioned because he was flying a drone over the road, in violation of Federal Aviation Administration rules.

According to a police report, no one was arrested, but police “thanked the group for their cooperation and apologized for taking up so much time of Mr. Nunes [NSF leader Josh Nunes] and Mr. Minadeo [GDL leader Jon Minadeo].”

“Some people say that some of the rhetoric that we hear doesn’t really represent what’s in people’s hearts, it’s just the game. It’s just the political game. Those three people who lost their lives, that’s not a game.”

— Mayor Donna Deegan

After Saturday’s mass shooting, civil rights groups were quick to note neo-Nazis’ intimidation tactics in the city.

“This occurred after an uptick in brazen public displays of antisemitism from the Goyim Defense League in Jacksonville made headlines in recent months,” Western States Center, which tracks extremism in the U.S., said in a statement.

During a Sunday memorial service for the victims of the shooting, Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan connected the attack to past racism—and new campaigns to stifle civil rights.

“It feels some days like we’re going backward,” Deegan said. “I’ve heard some people say that some of the rhetoric that we hear doesn’t really represent what’s in people’s hearts, it’s just the game. It’s just the political game. Those three people who lost their lives, that’s not a game.”

The rise in overt bigotry comes amid new laws that limit how Florida educators can teach about race and racism. Those policies led the NAACP to issue a travel advisory to Florida earlier this year.

“Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals,” the organization said in a May statement. “Before traveling to Florida, please understand that the state of Florida devalues and marginalizes the contributions of, and the challenges faced by African Americans and other communities of color."

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Multiple people have been shot and killed at a Dollar General in Jacksonville, Florida. The shooter first went to nearby HBCU, Edward Waters University, but was turned away by security. Details are developing.

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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says the Democratic Party has plans to change Florida back to a swing state

CHICAGO, Ill. – Democratic Party heavyweight Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear spoke to News4JAX on Tuesday about how the party plans to change Florida to a swing state. RELATED: Governors of battleground states encourage Florida delegates at Democratic National Convention Beshear, who was on Vice President Kamala Harris’ short list of running mates, is one of two Democratic governors of southern…

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Rapper Julio Foolio Dead at Age 26 Following Shooting

Julio Foolio, real name Charles Jones Courtesy of Julio Foolio/Instagram Rapper Julio Foolio, whose real name is Charles Jones, has died at the age of 26. Lewis Fusco, an attorney for the Florida-based musician, confirmed Jones’ death to News4JAX in Tampa, on Sunday, June 23. According to WTSP-TV, Tampa police officials attended a shooting reported at the Holiday Inn Tampa North at around 4:40 AM…