POSTED 10/18/2008 - A recent report released by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles says crash fatalities have decreased for the second straight year, but alcohol-related deaths have continued to rise. More...
POSTED 10/17/2008 - With more and more Floridians feeling an economic crunch, they are turning to debt relief companies to help with credit card debt, credit repair or other services. Unfortunately, many of those companies are not living up to their promises.
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POSTED 10/16/2008 - Workers in Florida will get more money come January when the state's minimum wage jumps 42 cents to $7.21 an hour. The Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation announced the increase Wednesday based on a constitutional amendment requiring the agency to calculate a new minimum wage each year.
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POSTED 10/16/2008 - Newspapers in Norfolk are reporting that the Navy plans to announce its preference on November 21 for moving ships to north Florida. More...
POSTED 10/15/2008 - In a recent broadcast this week on the Howard Stern Show, talk show cohort Sal went to Harlem and interviewed random passer buyers on the topic of recent Senator Obama polices. The only problem was, the policies and statements posed by Sal were not of Senator Obama‘s, but Senator John McCain‘s.
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POSTED 10/14/2008 - Two suspects fleeing from Columbia County Sheriff’s deputies ended up in the hospital after crashing their stolen car into a tree in Baker County Sunday.
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POSTED 10/15/2008 - Belk's Fall Charity Sale on November 15, 2008, will once again benefit local charities, schools and nonprofit organizations throughout the company's 16-state market area. Belk's previous Charity Sale, held May 3, 2008, raised more than $4 million for hundreds of participating nonprofit organizations.
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First time home buyers still have an affordable mortgage product available to them. They are FHA loans, and they have been around for years. While regulators can't resist tinkering with it now and then, it is still the best, if not the only, product on the market for those who can't qualify for conventional loans.
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Business briefs reports what’s happening to local and area businesses. Items can include mergers, relocations, office and store openings, honor and awards, promotions, personnel changes, or business events. Send information to news@northfloridanewsdaily.com More...
Seminole Community College’s women’s softball team ranks No. 15 on the National Fastpitch Coaches Association list of All-Academic Teams. The Lady Raiders are the only Florida community college team to make the list, which was published Sept. 29. The rankings, based on GPAs submitted for the 2007-2008 school year, honors high school and collegiate softball teams for their success in the classroom.
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POSTED 10/15/2008 - Fan favorite Joe Zelenka will be joining Jacksonville dads and their kids as host of the All Pro Dad Father & Kids Experience to be held at the Jaguars practice fields on Saturday, October 25th from 2:00 until 5:00 p.m. The event, presented by First Guaranty Bank, is an afternoon of fun activities through which men can also get practical ideas on being better fathers.
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POSTED 10/17/2008 - At the start of the game against North Carolina State it looked like the Seminoles would once again be bit by the Thursday night upset, but the Noles rallied to take the Wolf Pack 26-17.
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"LEAVE IT ALL ON THE FIELD!" Those were my final words to the team before leaving the locker room before the game. After four quarters of football, I realized that we did just that. Our kids were tired, give out, and sore. That was the evidence that they played their hearts out for 48 minutes of football. The bad news was that the scoreboard showed us to be on the losing end. Episcopal came out and played just as hard and just as good. The final score was 14 to 7, but that score alone doesn't say how hard fought and close the game actually was.
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An additional rule restricting the harvest of freshwater turtles goes into effect on Oct. 23. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) passed the rule at the September Commission meeting.
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The Amelia Cruizers Car Club is hosting its 12th Annual 8 Flags Car Show on historic Centre Street in beautiful downtown Fernandina Beach on October 18, 2008. More...
Coleman Barks is, perhaps somewhat sadly, best known as the translator of the historical Persian poet Rumi and while his contributions thus to world literature are certainly worthwhile, this very repute also isolates Barks somewhat as a translator less than as a working poet himself. However, Barks is very much the contemporary poet as well as the translator and scholar of world literature. More...
Arthur Kipps was a successful English lawyer at the height of his young career. He had a fiancé who adored him and a boss who admired him. The future looked bright for this young Victorian Brit. Little did he know that a routine business trip to settle the estate of a recently deceased woman would change his life so drastically. He entered this journey as an optimistic, confident man of business but left it a broken soul, cursed by what he saw: the ghost of the woman in black. More...
The Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival will present a free concert of American music at Central Park in downtown Fernandina Beach at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 19 as part of the festival’s community outreach. More...
Wings, wings, everywhere are wings. You’ve got wings from Buffalo and wings that are wild. There are wings from Hooter’s and wings from Dayton of all places. Trust me, you don’t have to go to any of those places to get great wings. There’s a little place right in Macclenny at 1441 South 6th Street called Wing’s Galore that has been serving Baker County now for close to three years, if not more.
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Every year, millions of Americans look forward to autumn and the opportunity to take in the beautiful fall foliage. As deciduous trees across the country begin to shed their leaves, "leaf peeping," as it is known, becomes a pastime of many travelers.
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POSTED 10/15/2008 - In an article in London’s Telegraph newspaper on October 14, reporters Adam Lusher, Marianne Kearney, and Aji Ramyakim provided an update on the status of 37-year-old Dede Koswara, also known as the "Tree Man" in an article titled "Tree man ‘who grew roots’ hopes to marry after 4lb of warts removed."
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POSTED 10/15/2008 - If you're looking for ways to eat well on a budget, you're not alone. So what can you do to keep good quality food on the table? Flap steak and chuck roast are great options for creating delicious meals on a budget without sacrificing quality. More...
Violent crime down for first half of year