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Jim Yakubsin served as the featured speaker for the annual Pearl Harbor memorial ceremony held in the Freedom Center at Veterans Memorial Park in Gainesville.

The Villages Department of Safety reported responding to at least 86 accidents involving golf carts in 2018. Sixty-three of these involved injuries.

Sara Jampower, a self-described "super Muslim," doesn't identify with a party, but says both resonate with her. She didn't vote in the 2016 election but is informed and prepared for the midterm.

It's final: Democrat Andrew Gillum lost to Republican Ron DeSantis in the governor race. But it's not over for the other races yet.

The Alachua County commission met on Tuesday to hear public comment on the county’s next …

A federal judge Thursday turned down a request by U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson’s campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to extend recount deadlines in last week’s elections.

A federal judge slammed Florida on Thursday for repeatedly failing to anticipate election problems, and said the state law on recounts appears to violate the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that decided the presidency in 2000.

HOPE stands for HOrses Helping PEople and is an equine-assisted therapy facility located in Alachua County.

On the final day of the Florida Priorities Summit, influencers from across the state proposed solutions to those issues after brainstorming for two and a half hours in search of common ground.

Gov. Rick Scott intends to recuse himself from a state panel that is scheduled next week to certify the results of Florida’s 2018 elections.

To keep more children out of hospitals and protect the community from preventable disease, county health officials are targeting high-risk populations and hot spots where the flu is most contagious.

Underpaid bus drivers, cutbacks on services and decaying bus stops are some of the issues the Gainesville Regional Transit System has faced in the past year.

For three years, University of Florida Health Shands physician Frederick Southwick noticed an increase in patients experiencing diabetic ketoacidosis, a diabetes complication known as DKA and which can lead to a coma or even death.

Oakcrest is one of Florida’s “turnaround” schools, as it has received five consecutive D grades on the state's annual assessment exams. The Marion Coutny school board believes that Oakcrest is doing everything it needs to ensure that it meets standards.

Groups like Greyhound Pets of America are scrambling to find homes for the thousands of greyhounds that will be off racetracks thanks to the passing of Amendment 13.

By a margin of more than two to one, Alachua County voters approved a half-cent local sales tax to improve school facilities. The total is expected to be about $22 million a year.

The festivities included tours of the band hall and the rest of the 1.6-acre property, as well as speeches by elected officials involved with the renovation process, members of the board of directors and individuals with personal connections to the building's past.

Voting machine recount numbers in Marion County and Alachua County show dozens of overvotes and thousands of undervotes.

As machine recounts begin in counties across the state, tension builds between candidates.

Before they began recounting votes for statewide elections, the Alachua County Supervisor of Elections office faced the challenge of processing more than 800 ballots still not counted.

Florida secretary of state ordered a machine recount for the governor, U.S. Senate and commissioner of agriculture races on Saturday. Gubernatorial Democratic candidate Andrew Gillum took back his concession to Rep. Ron DeSantis.

It was 1958, and someone from The Florida Alligator advised George Starke Jr., the university’s first African-American student, to wait in order to minimize distraction or disruption.

Florida's races for governor, U.S. Senate and Commissioner of Agriculture are headed for a recount.