Since then, a camp has grown at old Fire Station 1, a city property slated for redevelopment. Tents of all sizes, makeshift bikes and art projects, and a table with food, drinks, clothes and hygiene products all sit on the driveway of old Fire Station 1 in downtown Gainesville. The …
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GRACE Marketplace has taken steps to address the recent COVID-19 outbreak within the shelter.
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The Gainesville City Commission is closer to allowing public drinking on the city’s sidewalks permanently.
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Almost one week has gone by since the Surfside condo collapse in South Florida. With many people remaining unaccounted for, local fire departments are stepping in to help out.
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The 48-page ruling by Chief U.S. District Judge Mark Walker came more than three years after the Republican-controlled Legislature and then-Gov. Rick Scott rushed to approve the restriction following a massacre at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 people.
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The number of arrests in Alachua County fell sharply during the COVID-19 pandemic, with arrests down 29% in 2020 compared to the year prior.
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Natisha Covert was shot at a block party in Waldo amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis said Wednesday that Florida law-enforcement officers will go to Texas and Arizona to help with border control, as Florida continues to challenge the Biden administration in federal court about immigration enforcement.
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Circuit Judge Donna M. Keim denied this request for an emergency injunction yesterday just in time for the scheduled board meeting that took place at 6:00 p.m.
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All four parties involved — Robert Duthill Jr., 21, Patrick James Abbott, 21, Austin Reed Fletcher, 21 and Khalil Reed, 25 — have now been handed sentences from the Eighth Judicial Circuit of Florida.
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