Madison Schemitz News Today

Madison Schemitz, 18, shared heart-wrenching footage of her grueling road to recovery a year after her ex she was severely injured in the stabbing frenzy outside a restaurant in Ponte Vedra Beach last June.

With slim chances of recovery, these trauma patients from the First Coast survived brutal attacks and tragedies; they told us their stories


May is National Trauma Awareness Month, and on Thursday, trauma survivors were honored and reunited with their caregivers at HCA Florida Memorial Hospital.

May is National Trauma Awareness Month, and on Thursday, trauma survivors were honored and reunited with their caregivers at HCA Florida Memorial Hospital.

Nine months after their son was killed in a crash by a driver going the wrong way, the parents of Trenton Stewart are working to give back to others in their son’s name.

Here are the Top 10 local headlines that our readers took the most interest in this year, in no particular order:

Jurors found Randall Brown guilty of first-degree murder in the 2021 stabbing death. He now faces the death penalty phase.

Spencer Pearson, 19, is facing attempted murder charges after he allegedly ambushed Madison Schemitz, 17 in broad daylight and stabbed her 15 times outside a restaurant.

A 19-year-old charged with stabbing his ex-girlfriend and leaving her paralyzed attempted suicide in the weeks before the attack, court records show. 

The teen survivor of an attempted murder-suicide stabbing attack outside a Ponte Vedra restaurant in July delivered the first pitch at the UNF softball game Sunday afternoon to raise awareness for domestic violence.