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Jacksonville police have arrested a man accused of causing a hit-and-run accident that left a 4-month-old boy dead Oct. 18.
Raymond Bernard McArthur, 38, of the 5400 block of Lenox Avenue is charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving a death in the wreck that killed Otha D. Williams. Otha died after being hospitalized with head trauma following the accident at Stockton and Irene streets in Riverside.
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Countdown to the 450th
Oct. 28, 1884
It is discovered that the U.S. government intends to enclose all of the Fort Marion property with a fence, thereby severing several main streets that have been open to the public for over 100 years. |
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This pot’s calling the kettle black
Editor: I am responding to letter to editor titled “Racist Republicans” published Oct. 21. I was surprised to read such a hate-spewed letter. I was not sure I should respond, as I did not want to give credibility to such remarks.
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DEAR ABBY: I met a guy over the phone when he called my number by mistake. After a brief conversation, not particularly polite on my part, the call ended. Forty-five minutes later he called me back, saying he couldn’t stop thinking about me. I thought, “Who is this goofball?”
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Oct. 27, 1879
Anna Dummitt is granted a lease to 20 square feet in Plaza for a memorial to the Confederate dead of St. Johns County. |
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Starting Monday, millions of people who have avoided colon cancer screening can get a new home test that’s noninvasive and doesn’t require the icky preparation most other methods do.
The test is the first to look for cancer-related DNA in stool. But deciding whether to get it is a more complex choice than ads for “the breakthrough test ... that’s as easy as going to the bathroom” make it seem.
On one hand, the test could greatly boost screening for a deadly disease that too few people get checked for now.
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FRANKFURT, Germany — The European Central Bank says 13 of Europe’s 130 biggest banks have flunked an in-depth review of their finances and need an extra 10 billion euros ($12.5 billion) to cushion themselves against any future crises.
Although the landmark review identified only a handful of weak banks, ECB officials said Sunday that it was tough enough to ensure Europe’s banks will be purged of the bad investments that have made some of them hold back on lending.
That means the banks will be ready to lend to businesses when the economy finally picks up, they said.
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MIAMI — A Florida appeals court has refused to let Attorney General Pam Bondi take the state’s gay marriage ban directly to the Florida Supreme Court.
The 3rd District Court of Appeal on Friday indicated it will likely rule itself on previous decisions striking down the Miami-Dade and Monroe counties bans.
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a Ruby E. Glisson
Ruby E. Glisson, 85, passed away with family by her side at the Bailey Center on Oct. 23, 2014.
She was preceded in death by her parents Henry and Tina Nettles and a brother Marion Nettles.
Ruby is survived by her husband Albert, children Chet (Andi Gail) Glisson, Tracy (Butch) Green, a brother, Billy Nettles, grandchildren Alan Glisson, Ami Glisson (Chuck) Mickler, Anna (Pete) White, Andi Leigh Glisson, Taylor (TJ) Morin, Hunter Green, and one great grandchild, Ty Morin.
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DEAR ABBY: We have a neighbor who “decorates” his yard for Halloween in the worst way imaginable. Every year it becomes more macabre. He has “bodies” hanging from tree limbs, gravestones with RIP on dirt mounds and other unbelievable atrocities. He thinks it’s funny. It is despicable and it scares the children who must walk past his yard.
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WASHINGTON — Republicans hold a narrow but steady lead in the contest for control of the Senate, according to polls released Sunday.
Enough races remain extremely close that Democrats could still keep control of the chamber, but only if all the breaks go their way. So far, that’s not happening in the campaign’s closing weeks.
Democrats appear to have lost ground in extremely close races in Iowa and Colorado, although they have gained in Georgia.
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Two years ago, Jeffrey Niehaus was a popular teacher at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. An American, Niehaus had applied for permanent residency in Canada.
But Canada turned him down. The reason? The psychology professor’s 4-year-old son, Kurt, had autism. Treating autism would have been too costly for the government’s health care system.
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ORLANDO — Florida A & M University’s Marching 100 had played at a Super Bowl and before U.S. presidents. But one of the nation’s most-celebrated marching bands had a dark secret: Members were occasionally beaten with mallets, fists and drumsticks in a hazing initiation known as “crossing” Bus C.
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The following is from police reports from the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office (SJCSO), the St. Augustine Police Department (SAPD) and the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP):
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Anderson, Cole Dillon, 23, St. Augustine. Charge: Contempt of court. (SJCSO)
Baker, Joe Louisbarrow, 31, St. Augustine. Charges: Battery, probation violation — five counts. (SJCSO)
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MARONEL
John and Sonya Maronel are celebrating their 25th anniversary. Mrs. Maronel is the former Sonya Masters. Mr. Maronel is a salesman at L. Wernick & Sons and Mrs. Maronel is a domestic engineer.
The two exchanged vows on Oct. 21, 1989, in St. Augustine, at the Cathedral Basilica. Their plans are to celebrate with the entire family on a three-night cruise at the end of the month (Oct. 31, 2014).
Their family includes, Brittany, Austin, Hannah and Ethan, all of St. Augustine. |
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Fear: A campaign tool
Editor: In his inaugural address in 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt told the country “‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Now some conservative Republicans are trying to instill fear in the public.
According to the New York Times, “With four weeks to go, the election has taken a dark turn, as conservatives use warnings about Islamic State militants, the Ebola virus and terrorist acts to send a message: The world is a scary place, and the Democrats can’t protect you.”
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Scott’s record a joke
Editor: Rick Scott, made a national laughing stock of Florida’s gubernatorial debate with his rancor over the use of a small under-the-lectern fan. Was Scott worried about wasting electricity as part of his broader energy perspective?
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Re-elect Rick Scott
Editor: In the article on The Record’s front page Oct. 20, a gentleman interviewed states that he’s a Republican but is unsure of his vote for Governor. He feels that the middle class is standing still. Doesn’t he realize that it’s because of the Obama Policies that we are in the this situation? The stimulus only stimulated Obama’s agenda. The choice is an easy one to make. Rick Scott has done an excellent job and he should be re-elected.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Royals turn to a 23-year-old rookie to save their season, but not just any 23-year-old rookie.
This youngster is the hardest-throwing starting pitcher in the major leagues.
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Republican racists or lying Democrats
Editor: Wow. I’m a Republican and therefore a racist. According to a recent letter (published Oct. 21) I am als probably one of the several Republicans who the the President.
I wonder if he knows a few Democrats who hate white Republicans?
What I hate is being lied to. From day No. 1 of this presidncy, we have been subjected to continuous lies.
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Pitts’ column missed
Editor: I always read Leonard Pitts. I do not always agree with him, but when he writes on racial prejudice, he is generally spot on. On some other matters, not so much.
Wednesdays’ article is a good example. He seems to be under the delusion that those of us that hold tight to solid values are a shrinking lot. Perhaps that is so in Hollywood, academia and the main stream press.
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The president is upset. Very upset. Frustrated and angry. Seething about the government’s handling of Ebola, said the front-page headline in the New York Times last Saturday.
There’s only one problem with this pose, so obligingly transcribed for him by the Times. It’s his government. He’s president. Has been for six years. Yet Barack Obama reflexively insists on playing the shocked outsider when something goes wrong within his own administration.
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DEAR DR. ROACH: I recently went to my family doctor, complaining of left-arm pain and heartburn-like pain in my throat area. He said that he could admit me to the hospital for two days of testing or that it could be a pinched nerve in my neck. It was my choice not to go to the hospital, so he recommended meloxicam for a possible pinched nerve. As it turns out, my symptoms later became so uncomfortable that I decided to go to the ER three days after seeing my doctor. It was a serious blockage of a main artery to my heart, and emergency surgery was performed to put a stent in.
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A Halloween-themed show written and directed by local playwright and actor Dianne Jacoby, is performed by the St. George Players at the Limelight Theatre Sunday, October 27, 2014.
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CHAPEL HILL — Deborah Crowder, who orchestrated the now infamous “paper classes” at UNC-Chapel Hill, was well known among students and athletes for handing out A’s and B’s for very little work.
They took to calling her “Professor Debby.”
She wasn’t a professor, of course. She was hired as a “student services manager,” a form of administrative assistant in the African and Afro-American Studies department. She worked there for three decades.
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MURSITPINAR, Turkey — A Syrian activist group said Sunday that the death toll in 40 days of fighting in and around the northern Syrian border town of Kobani has reached 815, as Kurdish fighters battled Muslim militants for a hill west of the town.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the death toll includes 21 Kurdish civilians and 302 fighters with the main Kurdish force known as the Peoples Protection Units, or YPG. It said 481 fighters with the Islamic State group have been killed since the battles began.
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TORONTO — A gunman who shot and killed a soldier at Canada’s national war memorial and then stormed Parliament before he was gunned down had prepared a video recording of himself that police say shows he was driven by ideological and political motives, police said Sunday.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Bob Paulson said in a statement they have “persuasive evidence that Michael Zehaf-Bibeau’s attack was driven by ideological and political motives.”
A detailed analysis of the video was being conducted and Paulson said they cannot release the video at this time.
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TAMPA — Former President Bill Clinton is back in Florida, stumping once more for former Gov. Charlie Crist as he seeks to recapture his old post.
Clinton was scheduled to headline an afternoon Tampa rally at Cyrus Greene Park. Earlier in the day, Clinton campaigned with congressional candidate and fellow Democrat Gwen Graham. He also spoke at Florida A&M University.
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DEAR DR. ROACH: I am considering minimally invasive spine surgery. Almost 19 years ago, I had a right total-knee replacement, which still functions very well. I believe the replacement parts are made with stainless steel. No physician I have questioned about the danger of having an MRI with metal parts in my body has been willing or able to give me a straight answer about the safety of an MRI with a metal knee. They respond with “It should be OK” or “It might heat up a little,” etc., but no guarantee of safety.
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WASHINGTON — It’s Nov. 5 and jubilant Republicans have captured the Senate, giving the party control of both chambers of Congress for the last two years of Barack Obama’s presidency.
Now what?
The power and agenda in the Senate would shift dramatically. Republicans goals — rolling back the Affordable Care Act, approving the Keystone XL pipeline, lowering tax rates and investigating the Obama administration — would dominate Senate debate and hearings.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Conservative Republicans are tying the widening Ebola scare to the nation’s debate over border security, warning that the threat of Ebola and other infectious diseases increases the need for tougher enforcement and health safeguards along the porous southern border.
After a month of global attention, Ebola is becoming an increasingly hot political topic as Republicans hammer the Obama administration for its handling of the crisis and Democrats accuse GOP politicians of unfounded scare tactics by portraying Ebola as a potential border threat.
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In this year’s midterm elections, New Hampshire’s Scott Brown is taking on the slickest Democratic politician since John Edwards.
Incumbent Sen. Jeanne Shaheen presents herself as a regular mom who “rearranges the dishes in the dishwasher if it is packed by someone else” — as she told The Boston Globe when she ran for governor.
But then she backs policies that only Fidel Castro’s mom would like. (And based on her immigration stance, I think we all know it’s her Guatemalan maid who’s packing the dishwasher.)
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Friends of the St. Augustine Amphitheatre's 2nd Annual Celebrity Guitar Raffle and Auction at the amphitheater Saturday night, October 25, 2014.
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Title: ‘The Creature Chronicles: Exploring the Black Lagoon Trilogy’
Pages: 408, with nearly 300 photos
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Available: Amazon.com and from the publisher
Cost: $60 to $75
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Glad we gave charter shool the boot
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Moeller most qualified
Editor: Eight years ago, Jeannie M. Moeller was elected as commissioner of the Anastasia Mosquito Control District of St. Johns County. Under her able leadership, the AMCD has developed a worldwide reputation (literally) as a leader in scientific/technical mosquito control, with scientists from 20-plus countries visiting here to study the latest techniques in controlling the world’s most dangerous animal, the mosquito. Mosquito-borne diseases have killed more people than all of the wars in history (literally).
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Vote for change: Vote for Shaver
Editor: This election season, with its endless number of candidate forums, has made one thing clear. All of the new folks running for office seem to agree on many things:
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Vote Corey Mara
Editor: I want to go on record as endorsing Cory “Duke” Mara for Anastasia Mosquito Control Board Seat 2. Cory has the education and credentials to be on the board, and he will make fiscally responsible decisions. He is honest, reliable and willing to work the long hours needed for the position.
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