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Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • WUFT News: Judge sides with state, tosses Gainesville’s GRU lawsuit. “The judge’s ruling appeared to be made largely on technicalities. She ruled the lawsuit improperly named Attorney General Ashely Moody, Gov. Ron …
Read More »The Point, Sept. 28, 2023: DeSantis appoints first GRU board members
Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • WUFT News: DeSantis appoints more Republicans to governing roles in heavily Democratic county. “The new law requires the utility’s board members must be registered voters inside the city limits, except at least …
Read More »DeSantis appoints more Republicans to governing roles in heavily Democratic county
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has appointed the first of five new board members to oversee the troubled Gainesville Regional Utilities being taken over by the state. DeSantis installed three Republicans in a part of Florida that has been one of the rare remaining political strongholds for Democrats. The three new …
Read More »The Point, Sept. 27, 2023: Terrell Bradley changes plea, sentenced
Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • WUFT News: Gainesville man attacked by police K-9 after fleeing scene pleads guilty to one count. “Terrell Bradley, the Gainesville man who was mauled by a police K-9 dog in July 2022 …
Read More »The Point, Sept. 26, 2023: Alachua County school gyms struggle without A/C
Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • WUFT News: Not cool for school – Alachua County students struggle inside gyms without A/C, with no plans of installation. “At least four Alachua County public schools have no air conditioning units …
Read More »Volunteers remove invasive species for Gainesville’s 30th National Public Lands Day
For the first time, the 30th National Public Lands Day was open to volunteers from the public. West of the Bass Pro Shop in Celebration Pointe, 13 volunteers participated at Lake Kanapaha Park by pulling invasive coral ardisia, a non-native plant that displaces native trees and shrubs in the forest. …
Read More »Columbia County Sheriff’s Office find missing K-9
Update, Tuesday, Sept. 26: Deputies found Chaos Tuesday around 11:25 a.m. after a citizen reported sighting him on Southeast Pounds Hammock Road, just south of US Highway 100, according to a sheriff’s office Facebook post. “We are glad to have Chaos back home!” the sheriff’s office wrote in the post. ——————— …
Read More »Not cool for school – Alachua County students struggle inside gyms without A/C, with no plans of installation
Filing into the school gymnasium is an all too familiar feeling: The squeak of glossy pine floorboards, the reek of sweat, rubber balls and cheap body sprays. But for some Alachua County students, there’s an added woe: The heat. “It’s very hot. Too hot,” said Layla Robinson, a seventh grader …
Read More »North central Florida’s diversity of languages on display at the Matheson History Museum
“We Are Here: Stories from Multilingual Speakers in North Central Florida" highlights the need for language access and advocates for everyone's right to access information in tiheir preferred languages.
Read More »Prosecutors formally charge former UF resident assistant in sex attack
Parker Aeon Siegel, 19, of Boca Raton, Florida, was charged with felony sexual battery of a person who was older than 12 and younger than 18. He previously entered a plea in the case of not guilty. Court records said the woman in the case was 17.
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