ATLANTA – Andrew Adams, the plaintiff in a landmark civil rights case from Florida, was in the courtroom Tuesday while a full panel of federal appeals judges considered weighty issues of gender and identity about him at the center of the nation’s culture wars. The case challenged a decision by …
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Police last week filed a sworn complaint against a Florida prisoner in the three-decades-old cold case stabbing death of a prominent East Gainesville man. The murder charge stems from a confession made to Gainesville Police and State Attorneys Office investigators.
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After a long Tuesday of work, LaShay Johnson, 35, makes her way to the courthouse, where she volunteers as a judge with Alachua County’s Teen Court. She is a community partner with the nonprofit organization, Alachua County Health Promotion & Wellness Coalition, to help provide resources to teens. For six …
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Alachua County emergency medical personnel responded to a record number of incidents in 2021, over 2,000 more than its next highest count in 2018. Sumter County Fire Rescue witnessed a similar trend. And in Marion County, Ocala Health, which includes five freestanding emergency rooms and two hospitals, is now searching …
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Levy County is beginning an experimental project that will help convert two of its existing dirt roads to be more cement-like so they can be more stable and manageable. Dirt roads are commonly used in the county, but they can be costly and negatively impact vehicles. However, creating traditional roads on these dirt paths would …
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Rainbow Family members and Marion County sheriff's deputies on Tuesday bowed heads in prayer at a vigil for Larry “Frank” Dugger.
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Since 2018, the Ocala Police Department has responded to over 1,000 overdose incidents, which have resulted in the deaths of 139 Ocala residents.
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The Gainesville Police Department is looking for volunteers to join its Violent Crime Workgroup, it announced Thursday in a news release.
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The feed business has been on its grounds since 1985, and the Rogers family bought the business in 2005.
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State prosecutors on Tuesday formally charged two prominent real estate brokers with felony criminal charges of racketeering, fraud and stealing trade secrets as part of a long-running investigation into a business dispute with their former employer. The men, Daniel James Drotos, 34, and Michael Steven Ryals, 65, were the same …
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