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As part of a cost-cutting consolidation, a Jacksonville sheet metal fabricating plant that employs 130 workers will be closed, a company official said yesterday. Robroy Enclosures said it is merging its Jacksonville operation with a facility...

JAGS RE-SIGN TWO Safety Travis Davis and fullback Ty Hallock re-signed with the Jaguars yesterday. Terms and lengths of the deals were not disclosed. Davis, 24, started the first seven games last season and tied for the team lead with two...

ST. AUGUSTINE -- For romantic newlyweds and videototing tourists, it can be a quaint slice of St. Augustine: clip-clopping through the streets of the old city in a horse-drawn carriage. But to more than a dozen animal-rights activists who...

********** CORRECTION (6/11/97) Because of a reporting error, the time of a beach volleyball tournament on St. Simons Island on Page B-1 yesterday was incorrect. Registration will be held 7 to 9 a.m. Saturday, with play scheduled...

Mayor John Delaney's veto has been vetoed. Delaney's controversial decision to overrule the Jacksonville City Council in a zoning case involving a Northside restaurant's right to sell hard liquor has been trumped by city General Counsel...

Stuart Millstone still thinks the best way for doctors to regain control of medicine in the era of managed care is to band together and form a single large practice. But Millstone, the 46-year-old president of First Coast Medical Group,...

If Jacksonville financial consultant Allan Salowe hadn't asked his doctor to do a prostate-specific antigen blood test three years ago, he'd be dead. During a routine physical, his doctor found nothing abnormal when he did the digital rectal...

There's a lot of grumbling, a lot, going on in Jacksonville. People I've talked to just roll their eyes when asked about State Attorney Harry Shorstein's decision to drop drunken driving charges against Tom Slade. That's not John Q. Public...

QUOTE, UNQUOTE "There's a [labor] fight going on. Definitely." -- John McKean Jr., who oversees the school system's janitorial services management contract with a company called ServiceMaster. Story on this page. BOB PHELPS' PEOPLE ...

BANKING REFORM The push for a banking reform bill entered a crucial phase yesterday as independent insurance agents joined with a consumers group to demand consumer protections. Rep. Jim Leach, R-Iowa, chairman of the House Banking Committee,...

If the Jaguars do sign free agent Rod Woodson, and there is a strong interest there, current starting safeties Chris Hudson and Dana Hall have a message for Woodson: Bring it on. Neither Hall nor Hudson is spending too much time worrying ...

Florida's second-largest free summer lunch program gets under way Thursday throughout Duval County. The Jacksonville Children's Commission program will ship meals to about 14,450 children a day at 201 schools, churches, day cares and other...

One by one they filed to the podium, each taking a few moments to speak about a man who touched their lives. Coaches, administrators, elected officials, athletes, students, members of the media and teachers all wanted to offer thanks to James...

The Ware County Commission has offered General Manufactured Housing Inc. a one-year deal to dispose of its solid waste for $1 a ton if the company will keep 200 jobs in Waycross. The commission's offer is well short of General's request last...

I always pause and watch for a while when I walk by the basketball players. I'm on my way to the Stair-Master and Cybex machines, good, safe exercises that require no sudden movements, no bodies banging into each other like the guys out on...