This one could be the nastiest, most personal debate yet. Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney are each signaling a willingness to go nuclear on the other in Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate in Jacksonville, a crucial face-off just five days before the primary in Florida. More >

Transitions of Western Illinois commented on how the closing of the Jacksonville Development Center might effect them. Sean Eifert, Director of Sales and Production, said, “We’re willing to do whatever we can to assist the State in transitioning people back into the community.”

Transitions did lose business in their laundry service program because they provide laundry services to Jacksonville Development Center.

Tuesday a crowd of about 2,000 people stood in the afternoon sun, waiting for wounded war veteran Ben Tomlinson to return home.

At about the same time Tomlinson, 24, was leaving Anniston’s airport in a van with his family, bound for his home. As they traveled along Alabama 21 signs and even a billboard read “welcome home Ben” and people stood along the roadside to welcome him. The Anniston Fire Department displayed its trucks in tribute and firefighters turned out in a show of respect.

The Jacksonville area is home to 37,100 professional services sector employees at 4,487 companies for an annual payroll of $2.2 billion, a new analysis of U.S. Census Bureaudata by On Numbers shows.

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By Jacksonville junior 152-pound wrestler Hugo Rubirosa was in surgery Wednesday at Pitt Memorial Hospital after injuring his neck during a match at West Carteret on Tuesday night, according to his coach. More >

Wayne Weaver, the original owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars, who sold the franchise to Illinois businessman Shahid Khan and is turning over the reins this week, said recently that he regrets firing Tom Coughlin back in 2002.

“If hindsight you could change, I’ll be honest with you: I probably would have never changed Coughlin,” said Weaver, in an interview with Jaguars.com.

The Crimson Tide basketball team will return to action tonight after an 8-day break for Christmas vacation, hosting the Jacksonville Dolphins of the Atlantic Sun Conference in the final non-conference home game of the season. The game will tip off at 8:00 pm CST and will be televised regionally on CSS while being streamed worldwide on ESPN3.

A group of moms on the First Coast will take part in a nationwide “nurse-in” this morning.  The Jacksonville event will be held at the Target store at the St. Johns Town Center. More >

A man on a scooter has died after crashing into a wall. According to Jacksonville Beach Police Department Sgt. Tom Bingham, the man suffered head injuries after the crash in the 1000 block of First Street South this afternoon. More >

National Football League owners have unanimously approved the sale of the Jacksonville Jaguars to Shahid Khan, making Khan the NFL’s first minority owner.

Khan purchased the franchise from owner Wayne Weaver for $760 million. Weaver helped Jacksonville acquire the expansion team in 1993 and has been its sole owner.