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LOSER: Scott Hughes, Chief Investigator at the State Attorney’s Office, who has gotten himself into trouble by using a driver’s license database to investigate the residency status of the parent of a football player at Yulee High School. Soon...

Today we’re going to feature a few losers who’ve crossed onto the wrong side of the law in recent weeks… LOSER: Kristopher Marlowe, the famed Cheez-It Bandit who stole an autographed Jaguars hat, has finally been apprehended. Couch potatoes...

WINNER: Hilliard High School’s football team, the Flashes, which FINALLY won a game this season. Breaking a five-game losing streak, Hilliard finally managed to prevail 14-6 over Oakleaf, who I’ve never even heard of before. Nevertheless,...

WINNER: Pickleball! Although it sounds like a disgusting type of cuisine, it’s apparently sort of a scaled-up version of ping pong. It is played on tennis courts, but uses hard racquets (wood or graphite) and a hard plastic ball with holes to reduce...

WINNER: BRAAAIIIIINNNNSSSS!!!! At least, according to a bunch of zombies gathered at the Jacksonville Landing on Sunday in observance of World Zombie Day. Hoardes of people dressed as zombies, as well as others who came as zombie “hunters”...

UNLIKELY WINNER: Toll roads. Yes, you read that right! Marty Lanahan, current chair of the Florida Transportation Commission, raised eyebrows and ire on Tuesday by seriously proposing the idea of bringing toll roads back to Jacksonville, which ousted...

WINNER, HOPEFULLY: Robert Van Winkle, a developer who claims to be getting on the ball of redeveloping the Park View Inn, one of Jacksonville’s most highly esteemed examples of the “Pitiful Neglect” school of architecture, and a lugubrious eyesore...

WINNERS: The well-paid brass up at Florida State College. I missed this one last week, but apparently the Board of Trustees has voted some hefty raises – totaling $300,000 – for FSCJ’s already well-compensated folks at the top. Robert Rennie,...

LOSER: An Alachua County deputy, who had to kill a deer possessing a level of intelligence superior to his own. The deer, which had been hit by a car, was in the process of dying when the deputy decided to speed things along. Not knowing where to shoot...

WINNER: Insanity has posted some major and disturbing gains in recent weeks. This weekend’s over-the-top “International Burn a Koran Day” in Gainesville is a clear indication of that. Pastor Terry Jones is a grandstanding antagonist – he...