{"id":245265,"date":"2026-04-24T20:36:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245265\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:36:22","slug":"police-remain-at-scene-of-man-barricaded-inside-jacksonville-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/245265\/","title":{"rendered":"Police remain at scene of man barricaded inside Jacksonville house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illinois State Police and Jacksonville and Morgan County law enforcement officials at mid-morning Friday remained at the scene of a barricaded subject believed to be armed, but alone, in a house in the 700 block of Park Street in Jacksonville.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police first arrived about 6 a.m. and began trying to establish communications. This is not a hostage situation, according to state police.<\/p>\n<p>Nearby Jacksonville Middle School is closed for the day and Illinois College has canceled outdoor activities. The public is not at risk at this time, according to authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Illinois State Police and Jacksonville and Morgan County law enforcement officials at mid-morning Friday remained at the scene&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4613,116,118,117,115,4614,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-245265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-breakingnews","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","11":"tag-jacksonville-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-pubnow","14":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}