WEATHER ALERTTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – After President Donald Trump threatened Monday to pull the Republican National Convention out of North Carolina, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry and leading members of the Republican party in Florida, including Gov. Ron DeSantis, said they are ready to step up to host the convention.Trump said if North Carolina’s Democratic governor doesn’t immediately sign off on allowing a full-capacity gathering in August, despite the ongoing pandemic, the RNC will be held elsewhere.Curry said Jacksonville is ready to step...…WEATHER ALERTTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – After President Donald Trump threatened Monday to pull the Republican National Convention out of North Carolina, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry and leading members of the Republican party in Florida, including Gov. Ron DeSantis, said they are ready to step up to host the convention.Trump said if North Carolina’s Democratic governor doesn’t immediately sign off on allowing a full-capacity gathering in August, despite the ongoing pandemic, the RNC will be held elsewhere.Curry said Jacksonville is ready to step...WW…

BREAKING NEWSTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Mayor Lenny Curry is encouraged enough by two weeks of data about positive cases of COVID-19 identified in Jacksonville and hospitalizations that he is reasonably confident the curve is flattening. So much so that he announced that Jacksonville’s beaches will reopen for essential activities at 5 p.m. Friday.As defined in Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Executive Order, essential activities include the following:“This can be the beginning of the pathway back to normal life,” Curry said in a statement late Thursday. “Please...…BREAKING NEWSTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Mayor Lenny Curry is encouraged enough by two weeks of data about positive cases of COVID-19 identified in Jacksonville and hospitalizations that he is reasonably confident the curve is flattening. So much so that he announced that Jacksonville’s beaches will reopen for essential activities at 5 p.m. Friday.As defined in Gov. Ron DeSantis’ Executive Order, essential activities include the following:“This can be the beginning of the pathway back to normal life,” Curry said in a statement late Thursday. “Please...WW…

WEATHER ALERTTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The city of Jacksonville’s inventory for Confederate memorials lists three monuments and eight markers on city property related to the Civil War.As of Tuesday morning, there was one less, and Mayor Lenny Curry said the others are coming down, too.Crews were seen overnight using a crane to remove a Confederate monument in Jacksonville’s Hemming Park, the downtown city plaza framed on two sides by City Hall and the Federal Courthouse. The statue and nameplate were hauled off well before daylight, leaving an...…WEATHER ALERTTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The city of Jacksonville’s inventory for Confederate memorials lists three monuments and eight markers on city property related to the Civil War.As of Tuesday morning, there was one less, and Mayor Lenny Curry said the others are coming down, too.Crews were seen overnight using a crane to remove a Confederate monument in Jacksonville’s Hemming Park, the downtown city plaza framed on two sides by City Hall and the Federal Courthouse. The statue and nameplate were hauled off well before daylight, leaving an...WW…

WEATHER ALERTTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry issued a citywide curfew Sunday “due to criminal activity that threatens first responders." The curfew lasted from 8 p.m. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday.Curry told News4Jax late Monday morning that a decision about another potential curfew for Monday night would be made and announced by the afternoon. ()“I’d rather not have a curfew, but we’re not going to allow what happened in our city what’s happened in other cities -- when you give an inch to those who act violently, to those who...…WEATHER ALERTTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry issued a citywide curfew Sunday “due to criminal activity that threatens first responders." The curfew lasted from 8 p.m. Sunday to 6 a.m. Monday.Curry told News4Jax late Monday morning that a decision about another potential curfew for Monday night would be made and announced by the afternoon. ()“I’d rather not have a curfew, but we’re not going to allow what happened in our city what’s happened in other cities -- when you give an inch to those who act violently, to those who...WW…

LIVETags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It’s expected the world will find out next week if Jacksonville will host all or part of the Republican National Convention.Republican leaders were meeting Monday and will make a final decision on the convention that was slated for August in Charlotte.As reported last week, Jacksonville is on the shortlist and several sources told News4Jax that the city is at the top.It would be a first, a political convention held in different cities. News4Jax Political Analyst Rick Mullaney of JU’s Public Policy Institute said that...…LIVETags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It’s expected the world will find out next week if Jacksonville will host all or part of the Republican National Convention.Republican leaders were meeting Monday and will make a final decision on the convention that was slated for August in Charlotte.As reported last week, Jacksonville is on the shortlist and several sources told News4Jax that the city is at the top.It would be a first, a political convention held in different cities. News4Jax Political Analyst Rick Mullaney of JU’s Public Policy Institute said that...WW…

BREAKING NEWSTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – At midday Thursday, Mayor Lenny Curry announced a new, local stimulus package to provide $1,000 in assistance directly to 40,000 Jacksonville residents who most need it, fund six additional testing sites throughout the city, support the small-business loan program the city has already started and to help the city in other ways.Curry announced this and other developments as a result of $160 million federal CARES grant to fund COVID-19 relief during a video conference at midday.The $1,000 individual stimulus...…BREAKING NEWSTags: Sign up for our NewslettersTags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – At midday Thursday, Mayor Lenny Curry announced a new, local stimulus package to provide $1,000 in assistance directly to 40,000 Jacksonville residents who most need it, fund six additional testing sites throughout the city, support the small-business loan program the city has already started and to help the city in other ways.Curry announced this and other developments as a result of $160 million federal CARES grant to fund COVID-19 relief during a video conference at midday.The $1,000 individual stimulus...WW…