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It's an impact weather day across Florida as a strong cold front pushes through. The front will bring some storms to the Panhandle and North Florida and scattered showers to the southern half. Cold temperatures to end the week and will stay below average for several days.
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A growing group of Florida nature-lovers and advocates are encouraging springs conservation through human connection, framing water as a relationship, not a resource.
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It takes Johnell Gainey less than a minute to walk from his parents’ house to the Florence Construction and Demolition Landfill in southeast Gainesville.
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Since Senate Bill 256 was signed into law, 55 unions of the 355 that applied for recertification from Feb. 7, 2023, to June 5, 2024, were decertified.
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The High Springs City Commission rejected a controversial proposal to add a community development district to a Bridlewood subdivision following a lengthy discussion at a meeting on Thursday.
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Gainesville police arrested a man Tuesday they say shot and permanently paralyzed a 17-year-old during a planned robbery behind Oaks Mall in October.
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The search on Monday resulted in one arrest, and authorities seized 14 dogs on the site at 516 SW 1st St. The address currently serves as a warehouse and storage building, according to property records.
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Pink lights illuminated the dance floor in the lobby of the Jackson N. Sasser Fine Arts Hall at Santa Fe College on Friday as some 50 lovers of swing dance turned out for a Valentine’s Day dance.
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The Hippodrome Cinema's screening of “Kidnapping Inc.,” a dark comedy directed by Bruno Mourral, who was born and raised in Port-au-Princethat, confronts the reality of kidnapping many Haitians experience today.
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The Senate Agriculture Committee passed a bill unanimously Tuesday in the Capitol in Tallahassee that would regulate the pet death care industry, after a cat owner who asked for her pet’s cremated remains was given a mix of glass, metal and human DNA.
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James D. Ford, who was convicted of murdering a young couple in 1999 in southwest Florida while their toddler looked on, was executed by lethal injection at the Florida State Prison on Thursday and pronounced dead at 6:19 p.m. Around 25 people witnessed the execution and Ford had no final statement, according to The Associated Press.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a sweeping new law Thursday that puts him in charge of a new state board of immigration enforcement, toughens punishments for crimes committed by immigrants in the U.S. illegally and requires state and local governments to cooperate with federal deportation efforts. The new law also cancels in-state tuition for immigrants at Florida’s public colleges and universities who are here illegally and prohibits the state from issuing driver’s licenses to those immigrants.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis signed James D. Ford's execution order earlier this year and set his execution for Thursday. His attorneys have challenged longstanding federal and state precedent in attempts to avoid his death, but the U.S. Supreme Court denied his final appeal Wednesday.
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Area seniors stepped onto the ballroom floor Thursday at the Valentine’s Day Senior Pro, an event hosted by Touching Hearts at Home and presented by The Village at Gainesville to benefit ElderCare of Alachua County.
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Before Tom Petty became a rock legend, he was just another kid roaming the streets of Gainesville and dreaming of making it big. Now, thanks to Shawn Murphy, fans can trace Petty's early years.
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Struggling with difficulties, a young girl faced many challenges that she decided to run away.
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