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A 40-year-old Jacksonville man is charged with Tuesday’s stabbing death of his daughter’s boyfriend on Broadway Avenue. Carlos Maurice Dupree, who has no criminal history in Duval County court records, was booked that night on a murder charge.

Garcia Eugene Bannister, 18, lived at the house and was in a relationship with a daughter of Dupree, said homicide Sgt. T.K. Waters of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. Dupree wanted Bannister “to assume more responsibility” in the relationship, Waters said.

A Jacksonville teen will soon be $5,000 richer after winning a national competition. Operation Homefront announced today, Southwest High School junior Erika Booth is the Military Child of the Year for the Marine Corps branch.

She gets $5,000, a laptop, and a trip to D.C. to receive the award and a Virginia teen beat out Morehead City finalist Collin Edge for the Coast Guard branch.

A Jacksonville man has been charged with 17 counts of animal fighting in a joint investigation by the Humane Society and police. Willie B. Coleman, 69, was arrested Wednesday at Coleman’s Kennels at 9215 Norfolk Blvd., said spokeswoman Katie Jarl of the Humane Society of the United States.

Seventeen dogs were taken to an undisclosed location, Jarl said. Coleman was also charged with one count of possessing equipment used for animal fighting, according to jail records.

Jacksonville police said a 54-year-old man struck by a hit-an-run driver on Atlantic Boulevard Tuesday was a missing person who suffered from dementia and schizophrenia.

Kevin Shawn McQuaid was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. He was hit in the 7000 block of Atlantic about 6:30 a.m. after walking into the path of an eastbound car that was pulling into the center turn lane. The driver stopped briefly then drove off, police said.

They were married 57 years, Grace and Harles May but on January 22 the union was broken when she died. “It is bad and it is still bad for me just losing my wife and I’ve got to go through this,” said Harles May.

Three days after his wife’s death the social security office declared he was dead for no explained reason. “I can’t get a credit card, nothing, because I’m dead,” said May.

Over the last six months, Shands Jacksonville has been working to get a new 3D mammogram machine online. The machine, called Hologic’s Selenia Dimensions, is designed to make it easier for physicians to see potential problems that a traditional mammogram would not catch.

The machine not only takes a regular 2D image of a woman’s breast, but also takes 15 different angled images in a 4 second sweep. This type of screening is called “tomosynthesis.” A computer then uses those images to put together a 3D view of the breast. Doctors can isolate one “slice” of the images to discover if or where there may be an abnormality.

Shot through the upper back on a rooftop in Afghanistan and gasping for breath after a bullet ripped through his chest, Marine Sgt. Ben Tomlinson had a fear worse than death.

Heat and shock from the round damaged his spinal cord, paralyzing him from the chest down. This injury was so much worse than one nine months before, when he’d been hit by a mortar blast during his first tour in Afghanistan. Yet through all the pain, Tomlinson was haunted by the idea people back home wouldn’t remember him, that they wouldn’t even know he was hurt.