US Senator Ashley Moody (R-Florida) was in Mayport on Friday afternoon, meeting with sailors on the USS The Sullivans, which just returned home from deployment in the Middle East earlier this month. 

Governor Ron DeSantis made the announcement Friday morning that at least 100 detainees have been flown out of the country from the Everglades-based facility since it opened at the start of the month.

The state attorney's office says it did review McNeil's cell phone video of the traffic stop before deciding to clear the officers of criminal wrongdoing. McNeil's legal team alleges, though, that he was never interviewed by the agency before the decision was finalized.

Florida Republican lawmakers have put a spotlight on reducing or eliminating property taxes lately. Still, a new UNF poll of Florida Republican voters reveals their top concern is the cost of property insurance. 

New concerns are being raised over the handling of the controversial arrest of 22-year-old William McNeil Jr.

A 21st-century Rosa Parks moment - that’s the way William McNeil Jr.’s attorneys described his case during a Wednesday news conference.

The first hit to 22-year-old William McNeil Jr’s face during his controversial traffic stop and arrest in February is notably absent from any police reports filed about the incident.

Two high-profile civil rights attorneys are taking up the case of a local man who was punched at least twice by Jacksonville Sheriff’s officers after he refused to exit his car during a traffic stop in February.

It’s expected to be the hottest weekend of the summer with ‘feels like’ temperatures up to 110 degrees. This weekend is the first time this summer that the City of Jacksonville has opened up its cooling centers.

Decades of accounts of physical and sexual abuse from students of the Dozier School for Boys helped to shut it down, but the memories stayed. Now, a local survivor has finally received his check from the state.

Action News Jax has learned the Jacksonville-based company contracted to staff Alligator Alcatraz has ties to a donor of Governor Ron DeSantis. CRS took down its leadership page sometime after May 13th, but Action News Jax was able to recover their names.

Once Action News Jax started asking questions, the city said Lieutenant Todd Smith would submit the proper disclosure form this week - more than two years after he started working for CRS.

Jacksonville-based company CRS has secured 45 state contracts since its creation, mostly dealing with disaster relief work and medical staffing. That history is making some question why it has been hired to staff Alligator Alcatraz.

A local Democratic state lawmaker suing the state to gain full access to Alligator Alcatraz is unlikely to get a final ruling anytime soon, but she did get to see the facility this weekend along with Republicans.

A nonprofit identified at least 50 people who attended Dozier and Okeechobee, a similar state-run reform school, who ended up on death row. The documented abuses at those schools have advocates asking for leniency.