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The Lake City Police Department and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement are investigating a Christmas Day shooting in Lake City that left a man dead. On December 25, 2016 at 5:30 a.m., the LCPD responded to a report of a man shot in the front seat of a vehicle …
Read More »Rate Of Hazardous Spills In Florida Remains Steady
Spills can have significant environmental and health effects by contaminating drinking water, which can lead to increased incidents of cancer and other diseases.
Read More »Florida May Let Some Death Row Inmates Avoid Executions
More than half of Florida's inmates sentenced to death may avoid execution under a far-reaching ruling handed down by the state's Supreme Court.
Read More »Heroin-Related Deaths: Drug Overdoses Surge In Florida, Marion County
In Marion County, the sheriff’s office has responded to 112 overdose from March until October — close to one every other day.
Read More »Gun Proposals Could Have Better Shot In Senate
Senate President Joe Negron, R-Stuart, this week sent the bill (SB 140) to three committees.
Read More »Circling The Answer: How A Roundabout Might Save Your Life
How Gainesville can learn from an Indiana suburb that's working to eliminate traditional intersections
Read More »Alachua County’s 911 Dispatchers Learn To Spot Mental Illnesses
The Alachua County Sheriff's Office launched the Emergency Health Mental Dispatch, part of a pilot program focused on teaching emergency dispatchers how to effectively answer emergency calls made by people with serious mental illnesses. The Combined Communications Center received almost 12,000 calls last month alone.
Read More »Gainesville Police Warning Of Car Break-Ins During Holidays
“Traditionally, during the holiday season, we see a spike in car burglaries,” said Capt. Jorge Campos, the Gainesville Police Department's operations bureau commander.
Read More »Satchel’s Pizza Building Catches Fire; Salvage Shop Not Salvageable, Fire Department Says
Satchel's Pizza also caught fire and was nearly destroyed in early 2012, but it reopened later that year with the help of a fundraiser.
Read More »Bank Robbery Hostages In Jacksonville Freed, Suspect In Custody
After a bank robber put a gun to the back of one hostage's head, SWAT team members resolved at the first chance they had Thursday to storm a north Florida credit union where nearly a dozen people were being held captive, authorities say.
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