JACKSONVILLE, Florida, April 1 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve issued the following news release: On Saturday, April 13, Fort Caroline National Memorial will host the 6th annual Explore the Outdoors: International Migratory Bird Day. This event will feature a variety of hands-on activities focusing on migratory birds and their protected habitat in Northeast Florida. This year's theme is "be the solution to plastic pollution." By making changes   more

JACKSONVILLE, Florida, April 1 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Jacksonville District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District continues to monitor conditions and has adjusted releases from Lake Okeechobee accordingly. Starting Saturday, March 30, the Corps reduced the pulse release to the Caloosahatchee estuary to a 7-day average rate of 1,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) from the W.P. Franklin Lock and Dam (S-79), as planned. In addition, th  more

WASHINGTON, April 1 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency issued the following news release: The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Seaman 1st Class Herbert J. Poindexter, Jr., 24, of Jacksonville, Florida, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Sept. 13, 2018. (This identification was initially announced on Oct. 2, 2018.) On Dec. 7, 1941, Poindexter was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford   more