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Car Theft Leads to Jacksonville Airport Shooting and Arrests (0)

May 16, 2013 • Category: Crime

An apparent suspicion of auto theft led to a shootout at the rental car return area in the Jacksonville International Airport parking garage on Wednesday afternoon. Officers located a missing Ford Crown Victoria on Wednesday afternoon and followed the vehicle to the airport’s rental car garage. Jacksonville Sheriff Chief’s Tom Hackney said authorities witnessed the [...]

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Deborah Hansen»

Will Jacksonville Ever Meet the Challenge of Mass Transit? (7)

“To be the Northeast Florida leader in providing effective, coordinated and integrated multimodal transportation solutions.” Mission Statement, JTA I had a great job when I lived out west in the ‘70s and ‘80s. Traveling between Denver, my home base, and San Diego and San Francisco wasn’t a hardship, that’s for sure. I was single with [...]

Tom Patton»

Final Thoughts on a Positive Experience (1)

  Well, that was fun. Back about six months or so ago, I announced that I had chosen so seek a seat on the Jacksonville City Council.  And I chose an enormous mountain to climb in the process… challenging a well-known incumbent in a county-wide race. We now know how that turned out.  John Crescimbeni will [...]