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Florida Newspaper Really, Really Regrets This Front-Page Gun Show Ad
Adam Weinstein · 05/15/15 12:17PMThis Jacksonville Theme Song Is Fly As Hell
Hamilton Nolan · 12/19/14 09:55AMLots of cities have songs about them. Well, now Jacksonville does too, and it's fucking awesome.
Jacksonville High School Named After KKK Founder Will Get a New Name
Hamilton Nolan · 12/17/13 09:49AMInvestigators Say Florida Man Involved in Shooting Death of Teen Was Upset Over 'Loud Music'; Attorney: He 'Acted Very Responsibly'
Neetzan Zimmerman · 11/27/12 01:00PMJacksonville Boasts a Formidable Number of Crazy Teachers
Hamilton Nolan · 04/30/12 02:31PMIt's School Board meeting time in Duval County, Florida, and you know what that means: a chance to review the disciplinary infractions of teachers in Jacksonville's public school system. This story brings you all of the amazing highlights. What sort of educational rogue's gallery do we have this month, Duval County School Board?
Fired Teacher Kills Principal, Then Self
Leah Beckmann · 03/06/12 04:20PMDale Regan (above), headmaster of Episcopal School of Jacksonville in Florida, was shot and killed today by a teacher at the school. The teacher, who had been fired earlier in the day, then took his own life. According to Police, the unidentified man carried the AK-47 he used onto campus in a guitar case. No one else was hurt in the incident.
TSA Now Protecting Us From Gun-Shaped Purse Decorations
Lauri Apple · 12/03/11 02:44PMTeenage Floridian Vanessa Gibbs missed her plane ride home from Norfolk, Va. the other day because her purse featured a gun-shaped applique that TSA agents deemed illegal as a "replica" gun. Commence adding bold western wear to your list of "TSA-banned fashions," underneath snake pants and hummingbird pants.
Gun-Toting Cops Hold Gun-Shooting Event in Gun-Plagued City
Hamilton Nolan · 12/01/11 12:03PMWhat is going on in the metropolitan Jacksonville, Florida, Duval County USA law enforcement community these days, I wonder? "Guns play a vastly larger role in Jacksonville's violent crime than in other big Florida communities, researchers at the University of North Florida have found." Weird! What else though? Any good... charity events?
Shocking Photo Alerts College Students to the Existence of Oral Sex
Hamilton Nolan · 03/29/11 12:47PMAmerica's Surprising Hotbed of Gay Families
Brian Moylan · 01/19/11 01:59PMNitwit in Twit Fit
Hamilton Nolan · 03/04/10 03:00PMHick City Politicos Play Perfectly To Yokel Stereotype
Hamilton Nolan · 03/25/08 01:24PMFolio Weekly, the alt-weekly in Jacksonville, Florida (where I used to work), ran a story this month about the BDSM scene in Jacksonville. Their reporting on sexual practices that are not licensed by the Baptist church outraged a Jacksonville City Councilman, naturally, and he's made a formal call for the city to remove all of Folio's distribution boxes from its property. Which the city is seriously considering. The righteous councilman reasons that children go to libraries, and what's to prevent them from picking up this article and turning into whip-wielding kink fiends? And the worst part is he was actually forced to read the blasphemous article—slowly, no doubt—in order to know what the god-fearing citizens are up against! From his letter to the mayor: