A man was hospitalized in critical condition Thursday night after he was shot in the head while driving in the Lakeshore area. Jacksonville police were called to the 500 block of Cassat Avenue at about 10 p.m. in response to a person shot.
Officers arrived to find a man with a gunshot wound to the head, a Jacksonville police news release states. He was taken to the hospital.
“The initial investigation has revealed the victim was driving a vehicle in the 200 block of Edgewood Avenue South when an unknown suspect outside of the vehicle shot him,” the news release states.
A passenger in the vehicle was able to drive to a nearby area and police were called, the news release states.
No arrests were made and no suspect description was given.
Anyone with information about the shooting is urged to call Jacksonville police call at 904-630-0500 or email JSOCRIMETIPS@Jaxsheriff.org or they can contact Crimestoppers at 1-866-845-TIPS.
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Duval school board member working to update policy to pave the way for TPUSA high school chapters
On Wednesday, April Carney, Vice Chair of the Duval County School Board, proposed a policy change to allow Turning Point USA high school chapters to be formed within the district.
Carney’s proposal came during a Policy Handbook Committee Meeting.
“I have been getting some phone calls from parents about receiving pushback from teachers where students have come forward saying that they wanted to open a Turning Point USA chapter,” Carney said. “I think it’s a violation of the First Amendment to have the teacher to say ‘No, I am not willing to sponsor.’”
The push comes in the aftermath of the assassination of TPUSA’s co-founder, Charlie Kirk.
In a section covering student clubs and organizations, the Duval County School Board Policy Manual states:
“Each organization shall have a certificated administrator or staff member, appointed by the principal to serve as a sponsor or advisor.”
Carney proposed changing the wording to allow someone other than a teacher to serve as a sponsor.
“A student should be able to go to somebody else, another district employee that’s cleared with a Level 2 background check or a community member that’s willing to step up and do that role if they passed a Level 2 background check,” Carney said.
Yasmina White, who has kids enrolled in the school district, said she’s concerned about the policy change proposal because she wouldn’t know who would oversee the club.
“Why are we wanting to bring these random people into our school to support a club? Teachers obviously don’t want to support it because it’s severely controversial. Because right now teachers are under the gun,” White said.
In Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia, the following high schools are listed as having TPUSA chapters, according to the organization’s website:
We reached out to Turning Point USA several times on Thursday to get a comment on this and did not hear back by the time the story aired.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier posted a video on social media with Carney on Thursday afternoon and said his Office of Parental Rights “will take legal action against any schools or districts that are preventing TPUSA clubs from existing on campus.”
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The Nassau County Sheriff’s Office arrested a 36-year-old man on several felony charges, including unlawful sexual activity with minors and possession of child sexual abuse material.
Police arrested Michael Alexander Miyar on September 9.
Records show Miyar faces seven felonies, including three counts of unlawful sexual activity with minors, multiple counts of traveling to meet a minor, sex battery, and possession of child sexual abuse material.
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The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is attempting to locate the suspect and the scene of a shooting that left one man hospitalized Tuesday.
JSO said it responded to a 911 call to North Main Street just after 3 pm Tuesday regarding gunshots. Officers were not able to locate the shooting scene, but were soon alerted about a gunshot victim at a nearby hospital.
JSO said that an initial investigation showed the victim, a man in his late 20s, had been traveling west on Duval Street before stopping at the intersection with Washington Street.
The victim said that’s where he saw the suspect, described as a man in his late 30s with a tattoo on his throat.
The victim said the man was asking for money, and after the victim handed him some cash through the car window, the suspect asked for more. After he refused, the victim said the suspect pulled out a revolver and shot at him at least three times. JSO said it appeared a bullet went through his left hand and into his chest.
During the 8:45 PM police briefing, JSO said it still had not located shell casings or a crime scene.
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As Hurricane Erin churns hundreds of miles off of Florida’s east coast, the impacts from the storm can be felt along the northeast Florida shore, and seen on the beach.
In St. Johns County on Wednesday, sticks started to pile up from the tide, along with other debris.
To preserve the beaches, the US Army Corps of Engineers oversees beach renourishment projects across the country, including here in Florida. Jason Harrah is a project manager for the Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville division. He says the projects, while beneficial, can be quite costly.
“I can tell you just in the last two years, in 2024 and so far in 2025, we spent about $137 million dollars of federal money restoring the beaches from Fernandina, in Duval County, St Johns, and all the way down in Flagler County just focusing on northeast Florida,” said Harah. “We’ve restored all those beaches from the impacts previously of Ian and Nicole and just normal erosion. So, we spend a significant amount of money, as Congressionally authorized, to restore our beaches for multiple reasons.”
Harah says he doesn’t expect too much damage to the beaches from Hurricane Erin. But with more hurricanes potentially on the way, and the high cost to renourish beaches, we asked if he thinks there will ever be an end to beach renourishment.
“It seems to be the most environmentally friendly, most cost-effective alternative to combat the impacts of these hurricanes and even Nor’easters,” said Harrah. “So in the immediate future, I don’t see an impact to it, or I don’t see an end to it, I should say.”
Harrah says they will have teams out on the beaches to survey the damage as needed when the storm impacts die down.