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Vote For Our Game of the Week
May 16,2012 at 1:58 PM EST

Which of the following spring football games should be featured as the HighSchoolSports.net Game of the Week?  The choices for you to vote on are listed below. 

The voting for this contest will end at 11:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 22nd.  The winner will be announced later that...more night during the sportscast on First Coast News at 11.

The game that receives the most votes will receive lots of TV coverage before, during, and after the game.

Be sure to like our page on Facebook.  Here's the link:  http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/First-Coast-News-HighSchoolSportsnet/327589030599645.

You can also follow us on Twitter by searching for @FCN_BigYellowH.
Orange Park, St. Augustine, Middleburg, Julington Creek, Jacksonville North Estates

200 New Full-Time Jobs Coming to Jacksonville
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May 16,2012 at 2:06 PM EST

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- 200 new jobs will be available in Jacksonville, the CEO of Florida Blue announced Wednesday morning.

Novitas Solutions Incorporated is hiring after getting a Medicare administrative contract for 7 states. The company, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Florida...more Blue, already had a contract for 4 states and Washington, D.C.

Novitas Solutions processes Medicare claims, handles customer service inquiries, reviews and processes appeals and conducts medical reviews.

The jobs will range in pay from $40,000 - $60,000/year.  The company expects to fill the positions in mid July.  New hires will go through 8 weeks of training and then begin processing claims.  The plan is for the Jacksonville employees to begin processing Medicare claims October 1.

"With this 200 jobs coming here with a 40 to 60,000 dollar range all right here in Jacksonville, downtown, it's important and my goal is to continue to focus on that," Mayor Brown
Downtown Jacksonville

Clay High Baseball Team Departs for Final Four
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May 16,2012 at 1:58 PM EST

GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. -- The Clay High School baseball program is having it's best season in nearly a decade.  Recently, the Blue Devils won their first playoff game since 2003, and now they are on their way to the FHSAA Class 5A Final Four.

On Wednesday morning, the Blue Devils...more baseball team received a nice send-off from the Clay High students and faculty as they left for Port St. Lucie, the site of the Final Four.  Clay will play Ponte Vedra at 10 AM on Thursday with the winner advancing to Friday's state championship game.

Back on March 19th, Clay defeated Ponte Vedra 8-3.  The Sharks are no strangers to the Final Four as they advanced to this point two years ago.

There will be another Final Four matchup featuring two local teams on Monday when Hilliard meets Union County in the Class 1A Final Four.  Then on Wednesday, May 23rd, Providence will face Tampa Prep in the Class 3A Final Four.
Green Cove Springs

New Storms Are Forming
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May 16,2012 at 1:39 PM EST

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. --Clouds from storms south of us dampaned the potential for t-storms earlier today. However new t-storms are now forming well to our west and they may impact some of us later tonight.

Increasing northeast winds will modify the afternoon heat by the weekend.

 

Beaches, Mandarin, Avondale - Riverside, Orange Park, St. Augustine, Avenues Deer Creek, Arlington, San Marco, Middleburg, Ponte Vedra, Springfield, St. Marys, Julington Creek, Murray Hill Ortega, Green Cove Springs, Downtown Jacksonville, Jacksonville North Estates

Some Federal Agency Workers Average Bonuses Ten Times Higher Than Others
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May 16,2012 at 10:40 AM EST
WASHINGTON, DC -- According to new payroll data reviewed by 9
News Now, the federal government paid about $439 million on bonuses to
workers earning as much as $62,895 in individual 2011 awards.

Deputies: Family Argument Leads To Stabbing
May 16,2012 at 1:58 PM EST
FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla -- Flagler County investigators say a family argument is believed to have lead to a stabbing.

Where the Jobs Are for May 16, 2012
May 16,2012 at 1:41 PM EST
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Big news today for those of you looking for a job. The Florida Blue CEO announced that Novitas Solutions, a company recently bought by Florida Blue is hiring 200 full-time workers locally. Those employees would administer a new government contract handling medicare claims. For more information on that just click here.

Deputies Investigating Man 'Possibly' Shot In The Head
May 16,2012 at 1:32 PM EST
PALM COAST, Fla. -- Flagler County deputies say a bleeding man wandered
into a fire station on Palm Coast Parkway just before 10:30 a.m.
Wednesday.

Will Smith Meets UK Olympic Hopefuls
May 16,2012 at 1:27 PM EST
LONDON (AP) - Hollywood star Will Smith took time out of his promotional
schedule for "Men in Black III" to try his hand at Olympic sports in
London.

FBI Investigating Fast Train College
May 16,2012 at 1:07 PM EST

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation has executed a search warrant at Fast Train College on Jacksonville's Southside.

Jeff Westcott, Public Information Officer for the Jacksonville FBI field office, said the FBI is there serving a search warrant as part of a joint...more investigation between the United States Department of Education and the FBI.

Westcott said agents arrived shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday morning. They were expected to be there the majority of the day.

No arrests are planned today, Westcott said. Agents are there to gather evidence.

At this time, the college will not be shut down.

WTSP, a sister station of First Coast News, confirmed that the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Inspector General is also conducting a search warrant at Fast Train campuses in Tampa and Clearwater as well.

The DOE OIG is working in conjunction with the FBI, the office confirmed.

The owner of Fast Train
Avenues Deer Creek

City Misses $1.6 Million in Parking Tickets Because of Computer Glitch
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May 16,2012 at 8:04 AM EST

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Thousands of first coast drivers are just now getting parking tickets from years ago.

Last week, Lisa Crawford received a $63 bill for an unpaid $20 parking ticket - dated September 2011.

"It was very frightening because it said it could impound my car,...more and I look at September and I'm like, oh my God I'm on borrowed time," Crawford said.

The notice Crawford received from the City of Jacksonville's collection agency was one of 24,000 sent out in the past few weeks, according to the city's public parking officer Jack Shad.

Crawford's bill was a tiny part of $1.6 million in fines the city hadn't reported to the collection agency because they didn't realize they were missing.

"Some people were talking about how they were getting letters that the ticket went back three to five years," Crawford said.

 

The city now expects those fines to be paid.

"I thought there was a statue of limitation on
Downtown Jacksonville, Avondale - Riverside

Edwards Defense Rests; Closing Arguments Coming Tomorrow
May 16,2012 at 12:50 PM EST
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - Closing arguments are scheduled for tomorrow at the North Carolina trial of two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, with jury deliberations expected to start the following day.

CALLING ALL BBQ TEAMS: Riverside event in historic St. Marys is great outdoor fun
May 16,2012 at 12:32 PM EST

Join us at the "Fun in the Sun Expo" for some great tasting BBQ and some friendly competition during the Sand Gnat BBQ Challenge from 9am-2pm on Saturday, June 9th at the St. Marys Waterfront Park.  
St. Marys

Ex-Syracuse Hoops Coach's Wife: Life is Ruined
May 16,2012 at 12:26 PM EST
GENEVA, N.Y. (AP) - The wife of a fired Syracuse University assistant
basketball coach says ESPN trampled her reputation and destroyed her
life by broadcasting stories about her and about accusations that her
husband molested children.

Romney Endorses Mack in Fla. GOP Senate Primary
May 16,2012 at 12:10 PM EST
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney
says Connie Mack IV is his choice in Florida's GOP primary race for the
U.S. Senate.