The Florida State and Florida men’s basketball teams are in the NCAA Tournament as No. 9 and 10 seeds, respectively. FSU opens up against No. 8 Gonzaga on Friday in Buffalo. The Gators will play No. 7 Brigham Young Thursday in Oklahoma City. With the potential matchups of No. 1 Syracuse [vs. FSU in the [...]

Marco Rubio made a major splash in Jacksonville Beach last Wednesday, while Governor Charlie Crist’s events in Jacksonville on Friday reportedly lacked the kind of energy and attendance you might expect of a sitting Governor campaigning for U.S. Senate.  
And based on two recent polls, Mr. Rubio has a lot to smile about.
I was able to [...]

TAMPA, Fla. – Not satisfied with living in Florida, Jonathon “The Impaler” Sharkey wants to move to Washington, D.C., to become the nation’s first vampire president.
Sharkey, 45, spent Friday on a Greyhound bus with his new fiancee, Audrianna Foster, a 19-year-old girl from Ohio he met online. She too believes she is a vampire, or [...]

A Nike swoosh or the Golden Arches might one day call to consumers from the back of your car.
The legislation that could allow some companies to stamp their corporate logo on Florida license plates as a way to bring in some cash for the state – and save drivers some money – is likely to [...]

Last week Warren Buffett, the man acclaimed the Oracle of Omaha and the savant who endorsed Barrack Obama in the 2008, weighed in on the Democrat health care “reform” plan and confirmed once again that he’s incapable of subordinating his progressive impulses to the dictates of common sense.
To wit, his statement in a CNBC interview [...]

Hearing the Jacksonville Jaguars added a true defensive end in the eight-year veteran Aaron Kampman on Sunday probably registered a few points-to-the-sky or fist pumps. And, rightfully so. During Kampman’s Pro Bowl seasons in 2006 and 2007, he was an elite pass rusher. For 2006, he was second in the NFL in sacks with 15.5 [...]

Lawmakers reached a tentative compromise Tuesday on a measure that would ban sex offenders from loitering in areas frequented by children and also set a minimum statewide buffer zone on how close offenders can live to schools and day cares.
The measure, which has been before the Legislature in past years, threatened to implode last [...]

Impersonating a locksmith could become a crime under legislation before Florida lawmakers that creates licensing standards for anyone who wants to make keys or pick locks for a living.
Sen. Victor Crist, R-Tampa, and Rep. Tom Anderson, R-Dunedin, have both filed bills that would create locksmith licensing standards to stop criminals who set up fake [...]

It seems that every time our photographer, Reinhardt, is out for a drive in the rain he comes across an automobile accident.
At noon on Thursday, a driver mistakenly drove up the north Acosta Bridge exit ramp which exits onto Riverside Avenue.  In his effort to avoid a head-on collision with another vehicle exiting the Acosta [...]

Sometime next year, Jacksonville voters will head to the polls to pick our city’s next mayor. A trio of major candidates have already launched their campaigns, and several other high profile figures have announced that they will enter the race in early April.
The last time the Jacksonville Observer conducted a reader poll on the mayor’s [...]