Gainesville's Police Department has been struggling with a decline of officers. In the last five years, over 100 officers departed because of low pay and poor morale, among other things.
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In 2014 Gretchen Casey founded the Unshame campaign in Gainesville to support rape victims around the world. Today over 1,000 people follow the Unshame group page on Facebook.
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City and county officials have tried for two years to make it so bus riders won’t have to cross the dangerous street.
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Gilchrist County Sheriff Bobby Shultz held a press conference Friday morning to give updates on the investigation of John Hubert Highnote, a 59-year-old man who lived alone in Bell.
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The Putnam County animal advisory board is working on a revision of the county ordinances that will address circumstances like this one in the future.
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Fire safety officials and advocates are working toward funding programs aimed at soon putting smoke alarms in as many as 150 homes across Gainesville.
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Flying eight hours a night 363 days of the year, LifeSouth Community Blood Center’s single-engine turbo prop plane has saved lives for the last 15 years by getting critical blood supplies to patients across the Southeast faster.
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All public schools in Marion County now have resource officers in the wake of the Forest High School shooting.
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For one Gainesville woman, incarceration started long before she spent seven years in prison for five felonies. Now she looks to help unlock opportunities for others.
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Ace and Ranger are 18-month-old German Shepherd/Belgian Malinois mixes that were bred in Europe before being brought over to GPD.
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