“He started coming up with emergencies,” said the victim. “Financial crisis situations, foreclosure on his house, child custody, divorce battles, health conditions.” She lost more than $230,000.

According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office traffic crash maps, since the start of 2024, there have been 69 traffic crashes near the intersection of Collins Road and Shindler Drive.

Steven Hallmark said his cousins, Marissa and Alisha, and his aunt Sandra were just about to move to Blackshear, Georgia to get away from the shooter. A U-Haul was packed up and ready at the home when Action News Jax responded to the shooting.

“I am not playing the race game,” said Sheriff Waters. “This is not about race. It never is and it never has been.”

Deputies said that after Christopher Jones got done loading up his car at the daycare, he sat in the driver’s seat. That’s when Mindy Osteen walked up and shot him in front of their sons.

A Jacksonville Subway manager is charged with false imprisonment after police said he grabbed a 10-year-old girl and dragged her away from her mother and behind a closed door.

“You have to do as the officers ask you to do,” said Waters. “It’s not negotiable. You can’t shut the door and say no and lock it.”

From 2023 to 2024, Wolfson Children’s Hospital saw a 222% increase in patients with injuries related to e-bike or e-scooter accidents.

A local woman is calling for answers after being seriously hurt in a hit-and-run crash in her neighborhood.

A new state and federal effort to ban pavement art on public roads may mean changes for some Jacksonville crosswalks.

“If you are going to play stupid games, you are going to win stupid prizes, and somebody won a 22-magnum bullet," said Timothy Williams after the shooting.

For neighbors, their main worry is keeping a new jail far from their homes. The city has not yet said where it might go.

Amy Riesberg said she posted in a Facebook group that she needed a place in May and she said Rashaad Rice contacted her about a home. The only ask before move-in was a $1200 deposit.