Hurricane Irma, the strongest storm ever recorded in the Atlantic outside of the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, is bearing down on the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The storm maintained its 185-mph winds after making its first landfall on Barbuda early Wednesday.
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With the threat of a federal lawsuit looming, University of Florida officials said Friday they will consider allowing white nationalist Richard Spencer to speak on campus.
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The National Policy Institute has obtained legal counsel and intends to continue with plans to hold an event featuring white nationalist Richard Spencer at the University of Florida following UF denying Spencer a permit to speak.
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A Bronson man broke a deputy's hand and smashed the rear window of a Levy County Sheriff's Office patrol car with his head Saturday during an arrest for growing 21 pot plants in his bedroom, the sheriff's office said.
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The new Alachua County Fire Station in Waldo has opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony, replacing an old building that served as a fire station for almost five decades.
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On Thursday Mark Asay was sentenced to death for the 1987 murders of two Jacksonville men, after nearly 30 years of waiting on death row. His case sparked controversy, as some of its circumstances were debated for decades.
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A 25-year-old man has been arrested and charged in at least two robberies in the Stonecrest subdivision in Summerfield, according to the Marion County Sheriff's Office.
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Thursday's planned execution of Mark Asay will be Florida's first since the U.S. Supreme Court halted the practice in the state more than 18 months ago. Asay was convicted of two racially motivated, premeditated murders in Jacksonville in 1987.
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Gainesville police are investigating an attempted robbery reported Tuesday around Bivens Cove Apartments in which the victim's dog bit the robber, who then ran.
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A supporter of a group headed by white nationalist Richard Spencer vowed to file a lawsuit against the University of Florida after the school denied a request to rent space on the campus for an event next month.
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