JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Stretching out along the banks of the St. John's River, the Episcopal School of Jacksonville is where the city's elite send their children for academic success steeped in spirituality. Teachers are handpicked and stay seemingly forever. The head of school, Dale Regan, a onetime English teacher, hugged children in the hallways...
A man who was fired by a private school in Jacksonville on Tuesday returned to campus with a gun hidden in a guitar case and shot the headmistress to death before committing suicide, the authorities said. No students were injured. Officers responded to the Episcopal School of Jacksonville after receiving reports of a person with a gun, and the...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- After last Sunday night's service at Celebration Church, where a 10-piece band played Christian rock for 1,600 worshipers, Stovall Weems, the pastor, met me in his ''green room'' and offered nibbles from a tray of kiwi, pineapple and melon slices. In a showbiz green room, the fruit is for waist-conscious guests. But backstage...
Jacksonville er en by i den amerikanske delstat Florida med 735.617
indbyggere i 2000. Byen er beliggende i den nordøstlige del af delstaten ved St. Johns-floden og tæt på denne flods udløb i Atlanterhavet.
Byen er grundlagt i 1791 og hed oprindeligt Cowford. I 1822 omdøbtes byen til Jacksonville efter Floridas guvernør og USA's 7. præsident, Andrew Jackson.
Jacksonville er amtssæde for amtet Duval County.