Category — Jacksonville, Florida

BOUND BROOK, N.J. — Torrential rains and high winds pounded the Northeast for a third day Monday, taking a heavy toll on people and property in a region that only recently restored power or finished digging out from the last of several major winter storms.

NEW YORK — Best-selling author John Grisham is finally ready to go digital. More than a year after reports emerged he would make his books available in electronic format, his publisher made it official Tuesday, announcing that all 23 of his works can be purchased as e-texts.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Faced with a drop in gambling revenue, states are adding games, considering new casinos and increasing lottery options — anything to keep their cut of the profits rolling in.

HILTON HEAD, S.C. — A single-engine plane with oil on its windshield struck and killed a man on a Hilton Head beach Monday afternoon as the pilot was attempting to make an emergency landing, authorities said.

WASHINGTON — The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too.

NEW YORK — Laurence Lallier slipped carefully between two naked women facing each other in a narrow doorway at the Museum of Modern Art. “I didn’t want to step on their feet,” said Lallier, a student from Montreal. “We feel shy and they don’t, and they’re the ones that are naked.”

DES MOINES, Iowa — Faced with a drop in gambling revenue, states are adding games, considering new casinos and increasing lottery options — anything to keep their cut of the profits rolling in.

LOS ANGELES — The estate of Michael Jackson has landed the late King of Pop the biggest recording deal in history: a $200 million guaranteed contract with Sony Music Entertainment for 10 projects over seven years, according to a person familiar with the deal.

MINNEAPOLIS — Two Northwest Airlines pilots who got distracted and overshot the Minneapolis airport have agreed not to fight the revocations of their licenses but could fly again under an agreement they reached with federal authorities on Monday.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Channel 4 has learned that the city of Jacksonville and the company who ran a city-owned landfill for the past 20 years have come to a verbal agreement that could avoid defending a lawsuit in court.

Alachua County deputies responding to a woman’s call about her husband’s domestic violence on Monday afternoon found a man with a gun on the porch of a home on 127th Drive in Windor. They said when the man pointed that gun at deputies, he was shot several times.

The 49-year-old man, whose name wasn’t released by Maryland Lottery officials, bought several tickets for the March 9 drawing. After checking his tickets, he threw them out.

NEW YORK — English progressive rockers turned 1980s pop stars Genesis were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday, joined by two other acts that thrived in second lives — ABBA and The Hollies.

ORANGE PARK, Fla. — One man is behind bars and Clay County deputies are seeking a second man after a home-invasion robbery early Monday morning in Orange Park.

Two Palm Coast men were arrested in separate cases that totaled more than 45 counts of possession of child pornography. Kevin Louis Culmone, 28, was arrested by Flagler County sheriff’s detectives late Friday afternoon on a warrant charging him with 27 counts of possession of child pornography.

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan bill that would provide tax cuts for businesses that hire unemployed workers cleared a GOP filibuster in the Senate Monday, opening the way for final congressional approval.

WASHINGTON — More corners of the country would have high-speed Internet access and existing connections would become much faster under a sweeping proposal to overhaul U.S. broadband policy that is being unveiled Tuesday.

Two St. Petersburg residents were killed early Monday morning in a wreck on Interstate 10 near Macclenny.

GREEN BAY, Wis. — The most frequently stolen street sign in Green Bay isn’t Lombardi Avenue, Reggie White Way or Brett Favre Pass. The distinction goes to a short street on the city’s southwest side.

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating the handling of phone calls that came in into dispatchers about an erratic driver who allegedly knocked an SUV off the Buckman Bridge.

WASHINGTON — After deciding last week to help family members of U.S. consulate employees in northern Mexico leave the area, the State Department waited until Sunday to announce the move.

NEW YORK — Usually out of the national spotlight, state legislative races are taking on new prominence this year. The reason? It’s a year ending in a zero, when U.S. census results are the cue for state lawmakers to draw new boundaries for congressional districts across the country.

LOS ANGELES — An insurance executive who secretly shot nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews has been sentenced to 2½ years in prison. Michael Barrett pleaded guilty in December to interstate stalking after prosecutors accused him of shooting the videos through hotel peepholes in three cities.

WASHINGTON — A new Democratic Senate bill to tame the financial markets would give the government new powers to break up firms that threaten the economy and would force the industry to pay for its failures.

BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Glynn County firefighters are battling a fire of a train carrying automobiles and the trestle carrying them from Colonel’s Island at the Port of Brunswick.

JERUSALEM — The Obama administration is demanding that Israel call off a contentious building project in east Jerusalem and make a public gesture toward the Palestinians to help defuse one of the worst U.S.-Israeli feuds in memory, officials on both sides said Monday.

MOSCOW — The United Nations has criticized Russia for ignoring the ecological impact of construction projects for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

PARIS — American movie director Tim Burton and Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard were added to France’s cultural honor roll in a star-studded Paris ceremony Monday.

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. — Police are asking the public for help trying to catch the person who battered and sexually assaulted a woman on the beach early Saturday morning.