When can you cancel your lease?

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Tenants break their leases for a number reasons. Reasons range from disliking their landlord to noisy neighbors. But when tenants try to break their lease most discover the lease isn't very flexible.

So when can you break your lease agreement?

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A look at underground Jacksonville

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- At the height of downtown Jacksonville's booming banking days, underground tunnels leading to vaults were built, partly in order to keep money out of the public eye.

Now, with banks steadily moving out of downtown to the online universe, the need for actual vaults and tunnel systems has disappeared.  

The tunnels are now more of a tourist attraction and a novelty, as opposed to a necessity. 

But, there are still businesses below Forsyth Street. 

A florist, barber shop and even a couple restaurants sit below the pavement.

Benny's is one of those still serving food, despite the offices above steadily emptying out.

"I used to have five people working here," said owner Sarah Bateh, who now works with one other person. 

She opened the restaurant with her husband back in 1985.

"I said, 'In the tunnel? Who's going to see us in the tunnel?' but it worked out just fine."

Sudden death cancels cruise and possible refund

KEYSTONE HEIGHTS, Fla. -- Carnival Cruise Lines has seen its share of problems this year, but that did not stop Frances Prince and Mollie McCall from booking a seven day cruise.

"She wouldn't go without me and I wouldn't go without her," said Prince. 

But on May 9 Herb Green, McCall's fiance', was killed in an accident on State Road 16 near Starke. Prince is still trying to cope with the loss. 

Prince, McCall and Herb Green were good friends. 

"Tragedies happen," she said. "You can't schedule them."

On May 10, the day before they were to set sail, they contacted their travel agent with the bad news.

"Their big suggestion was see if you can find somebody else to take your place," Prince said.

Prince said she also called Carnival Cruise to try and reschedule the cruise.

Prayers poured out for Ben Bowersox


JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Since First Coast News first aired the story of 5-year-old Ben Bowersox, prayers for him and his family have poured in.

On Sunday morning, thousands of people at their home church, First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, continue to rally behind the family in support.

Service began with Ben Bowersox's 5-year-old Sunday school class praying for him.

"We pray for all of his fingers," Sunday school teacher and family friend, Shelly Taylor said in front of the class.

Ben is at the Duke University medical center in North Carolina. He recently spent time in a hyperbaric chamber to help his fingers stay alive.

Several of his fingers were completely cut off when he grabbed a cable on a motorized airplane hangar door at Craig airfield this week.

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Sibling sexual abuse hurts a Jacksonville father

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- It is still one of society's greatest taboo but because no wants to talk about it, doesn't stop sibling sexual abuse. According to the Pandora Project studies have shown that between 2% and 4% of people have been sexually victimized by a sibling.  

"What is a father to do?" asked Reggie Thomas.

Thomas, 36, is a divorced father who is worried about his two children now living with their mother.

"I did all the right things I call JSO I took my child to the hospital," he said. 

Earlier this year Thomas made an ugly discovery. Court records show his children's older half-brother, a 15 year old, was charged with sexually abusing his younger siblings. Thomas' two children are eight and nine years of age.

"My daughter said this was going on for three years straight," he said. 

The State Attorney's office prosecuted the teenager.

Westside mobile home residents want drains cleaned

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The waters on Lane A in the Three Seasons Mobile Home Village have receded, but not the memories nor the frustration.

"When I moved in here I was told it flooded but not to the lake effect," said Sandy Vinti. "I opened my door and I was overwhelmed."

Vinti has lived in the mobile home community for 30 years but recently moved to a new lot on Lane A. She said her driveway was turned into a lake.

"Every time it rains here, we don't get just a little bit of water, we get a ton of water because of the main drain in front," said Vinti.

She said the water was as high as the skirt surrounding her mobile home. The vehicles parked in the driveway were flooded.

Many of the residents on Lane A, including Vinti, are convinced if the drains were cleaned more often, it would ease the flooding. 

Flooding creates problems for man in wheelchair

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- All along Fitzgerald Street, the ditches are full with standing water. Good for mosquitoes, but bad for 79-year-old Daniel Liverman.

"Guess I can't walk too far," said Liverman.

Liverman's problem is he's unable to use his wheelchair because the grounds are saturated.

"This isn't the first time it has been flooded in here," he said, "but it is the worst and we will get some more Sunday."

The water is not running off quickly because of the clogged ditches and Liverman said it makes it difficult for him to drive his wheelchair out of his gate. He said he feels trapped.

"When the yard gets flooded, I can't even go out the front gate cause it is still too wet," he said.

Liverman, a retired city employee, said he's complained to the city and was told they're working on it.