Gainesville Police arrested Khalil Reed, 24, a fourth-year University of Florida student studying family, youth and community sciences, in connection to a shooting and drug sale Sunday evening in the Walmart parking lot in Butler Plaza in Gainesville.
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The Latest on stabbings at a business in Tallahassee, Florida: 1:05 p.m. Authorities in Florida’s capital city say a man suspected of stabbing five people at a construction supplies business was an employee who had been asked to leave work because of an incident with co-workers. Interim Tallahassee Police Chief …
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A City of Gainesville Fire Rescue team departed early Saturday morning to provide additional aid for the Bahamas. The Gainesville Fire Rescue search and rescue team is working closely with local police and emergency management authorities on Abaco Island in the Bahamas. The North Florida American Red Cross is contributing …
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Neighborhoods have been destroyed and families forever impacted after Hurricane Dorian battered the Bahamas for almost 30 hours as a Category 5 hurricane. Emergency relief and long-term assistance are needed.
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Dorian is the strongest storm to ever make landfall in the Bahamas as category 5 storm, leaving at least five people dead and hundreds of homes destroyed.
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Florida officials said Monday that 72 nursing homes and assisted living facilities and seven hospitals on the state’s East Coast had been evacuated in preparation for Hurricane Dorian. Agency for Health Care Administration Secretary Mary Mayhew told reporters that only four of the long-term care facilities were evacuated because they …
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Tolls were suspended Sunday on Florida’s Turnpike and other roads in South Florida and Central Florida, as local mandatory evacuation orders started and large portions of the state’s East Coast continued to face threats from catastrophic Hurricane Dorian. With Dorian churning westward Sunday afternoon less than a couple of hundred …
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Ward said the city uses Alachua County code that states a maximum of 10 dogs or cats for residents.
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In his Alachua County lawsuit filed last month, Gil — who lives in South Florida — claims information on the county's website can't be read by his screen reader.
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Authorities say it has quietly become one of the largest marijuana and cocaine investigations across the region, at least by the number of people arrested, charged or convicted.
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