Corrine Brown began her prison sentence, Alachua County and Gainesville leaders squabbled over seemingly every issue large and small, and six weeks into the new year, the Valentine’s Day school shooting in Parkland changed much about what was to unfold. It was a busy year in local and statewide Florida …
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A decade ago, too many Gainesville juveniles found themselves in the back of a police car.
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Alachua County School District has asked for $1.2 million in grants to further assist schools in need.
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Alachua County Public Schools may need to bring in an outside operator to run Terwilliger Elementary if the school cannot boost its annual performance grade to a C for the 2018-2019 academic year.
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Myra Terwilliger Elementary School will face the possibility of closure if it doesn’t receive a C or higher letter grade for the 2018-19 school year, after receiving a D for the past three years.
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Records show Alachua County Public Schools (ACPS) began installing filters in August, having purchased 1,300 filters for its 36 public schools.
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Two of Alachua County's three contested school board races were decided during the August primary, but one remains for November.
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It was a unanimous vote among the school board members to not put the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act into effect.
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The FDA gave five major e-cigarette companies an ultimatum to curb teen use of e-cigarettes in 60 days or the agency could halt the sale of flavored pods.
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City commissioners Gail Johnson and Gigi Simmons had skeptical questions about the half-cent sales tax on Thursday.
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