Tickets are on sale for the 2020 Players Championship and fans will have to adjust to a host of changes with the tournament's ticketing processes. The Players Championship says the tournament has reached a threshold of capacity and daily sellouts are expected. “The Players Championship should be on every sports fan’s bucket list, and we are continuously working to elevate the experience each and every year,” Players executive director Jared Rice said in a statement. “Those efforts hav […]

The owners of the St. Augustine Distillery recently opened a second, independent distillery with the intention of marketing their products to a more tourist-based audience. Located at 11 St. George St. directly across from the Castillo de San Marcos in downtown St. Augustine, the new City Gate Spirits distillery opened its doors on Sept. 12 with a grand opening on Saturday. While its founders, Philip McDaniel and Mike Diaz, are co-owners of the St. Augustine Distillery, McDaniel made it clear that […]

Proposed Jacksonville Beach condo has had to extend its pre-sale window. […]

Jacksonville-based Black Knight Inc. (NYSE: BKI) has secured two patents for technologies related to its Data-as-a-Service business. The patents cover a technology related to Black Knight's Data Hub and a technology that pre-validates documents such appraisal reports by automatically conducting a quality control review and identifying risks, such as missing information. The patents give Black Knight 20 years of exclusive use of the technologies. "These patents underscore the degree to which Black […]

Jacksonville-based drone and aerostat manufacturer Drone Aviation is pursuing a public offering on the Nasdaq Capital Exchange, the lowest of three tiers of listings offered by the exchange. The company is looking to raise $9.2 million in working capital. The company's stock is traded on the over-the-counter OTC Markets Group exchange. In the new offering, Drone intends to offer 1.2 million units at a price of $8.30 each on the Nasdaq Capital Market, according to a prospectus filed with the U.S. […]

JEA will move one step closer to picking a potential buyer to negotiate with over the potential sale of the utility today, with at least some of the names of bidders slated to be released this afternoon. At a 4 p.m. meeting, the members of JEA's five-person selection team will submit how they rank the various bidders, with procurement representatives tallying those scores and determining who will move on. The names of those on the selection committee have not been disclosed, but they may be identified […]

Mudville Grille’s second location on Monument Road has closed down for good, but the unit is staying in the family – and preparing to house a new concept with an emphasis on as-fresh-as-possible seafood. Southern Coast Seafood is tentatively scheduled to open later this year during the first week of November, and it will feature precisely what the concept’s name implies: fresh seafood caught from the coast, with a southern-style flare. Co-owned by brothers Matt and Louis J. Joseph, as w […]

A recent study from Business.org found Florida ranks as one of the worst states for pay. To compile the rankings, the study calculated the number of hours someone would need to work at the median wage to afford the median rent for a one bedroom apartment in each state. The salary data is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the rent prices are from Zillow. All data is from May 2018, the most recent available.  Florida was the fourth worst state for pay with 84.5 hours of work needed to afford […]

The Walt Disney Co. was built on bringing characters to life, and its theme parks continue to keep that legacy alive with its projection shows. One of those shows will premiere on Nov. 8 at Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park in Orlando as part of its holiday decorations and festivities. The theme park's centerpiece, the Tree of Life, will feature a new projection show that will share tales inspired by winter and the holidays. "Every night here at Disney's Animal Kingdom we have our own pix […]

Interest rates may be heading down, but bank fees are still moving in only one direction: up. The average overdraft fee is $33.36, according to Bankrate’s 2019 checking account and ATM fee study. That’s slightly higher than it was last year and close to where it was in 2017 when it peaked within a period of two decades, according to a new report.  Although Jacksonville wasn't surveyed, two Florida cities made the list. Tampa was found to have the seventh highest fees among the cities wit […]

Former Garden City Elementary School bookkeeper Tramaine Jones was arrested following the disappearance of tens of thousands of dollars from school accounts. […]

Police bodycam video showed that Aaron Dean did not identify himself as an officer and fired a split-second after shouting at the woman to show her hands. […]

Here's a roundup of veterans-related events this week in the Jacksonville area. […]

JEA will decide Monday afternoon which entities will survive the cut and stay in the running for a shot at negotiating a deal to privatize the city-owned utility.A five-member JEA evaluation team will turn in their scores for each of the 16 offers the utility opened last week.The average of those scores will determine which entities fall by the wayside, and which advance to the negotiation stage that [... […]

Two dead, one wounded in separate Jacksonville shootings Sunday […]

The U.S. Census Bureau is asking states for drivers' license records that typically include citizenship data and has made a new request for information on recipients of government assistance, alarming some civil rights advocates. […]

The parody was shown at a meeting of Trump supporters at his Miami resort. […]

The principal of a New Orleans high school turned down a free Chick-fil-A lunch offered to teachers "out of respect to our LGBTQ staff," according to CBS affiliate WWL-TV.Lusher High School principal Dr. Steven Corbett explained that Chick-fil-A's stance against same-sex [... […]

Hope Joy Zeferjohn was missing from the Kansas Capitol on the day her family was posing for pictures with the governor.It was May 22, 2015, and then-Gov. Sam Brownback was signing a proclamation for Family Reunification Month. Zeferjohn’s parents and siblings stood behind him, literal poster children for Brownback’s efforts to return children to their homes from foster care.But Zeferjohn, 16, was in state custody in Salina, already under the violent control [... […]

WORCESTER, Mass. -- A mother is fighting to remove a suspension from the record of her son, who she said was removed from school for four days last month because he hugged his female gym teacher during class.Julie Orozco, who has been the boy’s foster parent since March, said he is a seventh-grader at Forest Grove Middle School. On Sept. 27 the gym class was playing dodgeball when the teacher gave her son a brief time out for [... […]

Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Sunday that Trump had directed U.S. troops in northern Syria to begin pulling out "as safely and quickly as possible." […]

Fiona Hill wouldn't comment as she arrived on Capitol Hill, but her attorney said she had received a congressional subpoena and would "comply and answer questions" from lawmakers. […]

Brick walkway was closed for repairs last week, then reopened after an inspection. […]

An author scheduled to speak at Georgia Southern’s Armstrong campus on Thursday canceled her scheduled event after an incident during her Wednesday appearance at the university’s Statesboro campus that resulted in several people who appeared to be students being videoed burning her book following the lecture.Outrage from students and alumni of Georgia Southern under the #southernnotstate hashtag on Twitter followed the incident after video surfaced of [... […]

Increasingly, Columbus Day is giving people pause.More and more towns and cities across the country are electing to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day as an alternative to – or in addition to – the day intended to honor Columbus’ voyages. [... […]

Jacksonville police say a man was shot to death Sunday afternoon outside a gas station in the city's Northside. […]

Fans tailgating before the Jaguars game against the Saints saw that Gardner Minshew II, win or lose, has brought hope to a fan base that really needs it. […]

Mark Yendes was left visually impaired after a schoolyard attack at age 5. But with a mother in denial about his condition, he struggled between the sighted and blind worlds, never fully entering either one. As an adult, he decided to "suck it up" and learned Braille and "how to be blind." […]

Jacksonville Beach police say a man died after being pulled from the ocean in distress Saturday night. […]

A man died and a woman was hospitalized following a double shooting early Sunday at a Southside apartment complex. […]