Though the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund is in its strongest financial position ever as the state heads into the annual storm season next month, state officials may bolster the fund with a purchase of $1 billion in private reinsurance.
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Police said he tried on July 16, 2016, to rob the Campus USA credit union at UF Health Shands.
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The Gainesville Police Department on Tuesday announced that three suspects in the fatal shooting of a 35-year-old man — and the attempted murder of his young daughter — have been arrested.
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Marion County has partnered with CSX Transportation and the Florida Department of Transportation to establish three quiet zones at track intersections along U.S. Highway 301.
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A wildfire burning since April 6 in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is only 3 percent contained as of Wednesday morning. In 2011, the Honey Prairie Fire in the Okefenokee refuge burned about 300,000 acres over a year.
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An Alachua County man accused of attacking another resident of the Dignity Village homeless camp in Gainesville with an ax pleaded no contest in court today.
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Four people were killed Sunday afternoon when a single engine plane crashed at the Williston Airport. The identities of the four were not immediately known, nor was the cause of the crash.
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Ex-NFL and University of Florida football player Aaron Hernandez, who is already serving a life sentence for 2013 murder, was acquitted Friday in a 2012 double slaying prosecutors said was fueled by his anger over a spilled drink.
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Two Miami men, including one wanted by the U.S. Secret Service for counterfeiting and identity theft, were arrested Tuesday by Gainesville police for having almost 50 fraudulent credit cards and several pieces of gas-pump-skimming equipment.
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Three people were arrested in Levy County on Thursday when authorities swept through the Inglis area searching for a man who is a suspect in an ongoing robbery investigation.
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