City budget will maintain trash pickup for downtown businesses and police at sports events.

City budget will maintain trash pickup for downtown businesses and police at sports events.

Jacksonville Local News – Jacksonville.com and The Florida Times-Union

Garbage collection from downtown Jacksonville commercial customers will continue and police officers will still work EverBank Field events, the result of budget compromises reached during City Council review.

Both items had been sticking points in the council's examination of the proposed 2012-13 budget.

Mayor Alvin Brown's plan originally would have eliminated the downtown garbage pickup to save several hundred thousand dollars.

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3M abandons sticky notes deal

3M abandons sticky notes deal

CNN.com

3M Company has abandoned its plan to acquire a competitor who sells labels and sticky notes after the government said it would fight the proposed merger, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

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Duval County School Board votes to its own lawyer for school system

Duval County School Board votes to its own lawyer for school system

Jacksonville Local News – Jacksonville.com and The Florida Times-Union

The Duval County School Board agreed to hire an in-house legal counsel Tuesday.

The board approved the $150,000 annual salary position with a 6-1 vote. By the same vote, it then hired General Counsel attorney Karen Chastain. Board member Tommy Hazouri voted "no" both times.

Chastain has been working with the district for about a decade while she was employed by the General Counsel's Office.

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How secure are you online? The checklist

How secure are you online? The checklist

msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines

We break down online security into four essential parts: passwords, browsers, at-home Wi-Fi and networking, and browsing on public Wi-Fi. Within those categories we'll give you a checklist of everything you should do, from the bare minimum to the tin-foil-hat best.

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State pays back thousands after drug testing struck down

State pays back thousands after drug testing struck down

OrlandoSentinel.com - Florida News

– It was one of Gov. Rick Scott's headline-grabbing campaign vows: Welfare recipients would have to pass a drug test to make sure addicts weren't receiving Floridians' tax dollars.

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Jacksonville sheriff's new policy restricts some officers from carrying guns into courthouse

Jacksonville sheriff's new policy restricts some officers from carrying guns into courthouse

Jacksonville Local News – Jacksonville.com and The Florida Times-Union

The argument can go either way.

The more armed officers in an area would seem to make it a safer place. Or the more guns, the more likely the wrong guy gets shot in an crisis situation.

Fewer guns seem to have won the debate in Jacksonville where Sheriff John Rutherford recently set a new policy prohibiting law enforcement officers not in their official uniform from carrying firearms into the new Duval County Courthouse. The policy takes effect Tuesday.

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Deaths in US drone strike in Yemen

Deaths in US drone strike in Yemen

AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)

At least eight killed, including five suspected al-Qaeda fighters, in strike near town of Radaa, in southern Yemen.

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New US Law Lets Reservists Respond to Disasters

New US Law Lets Reservists Respond to Disasters

ABC News: U.S.

New federal law clears way for US military reserve to respond to hurricanes, major disasters

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