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Pedestrian safety focus of joint City Commission and UF Student Senate meeting

UF Student Government Senators asked for major changes to university-wide pedestrian safety at the joint annual Gainesville City Commission meeting. Five pedestrians have died in Gainesville so far this year, according to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. At the meeting, commission members heard students’ demands for …

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Hurricane Lee expected to stay away from Southeast coast

Hurricane Lee is expected to stay off the U.S. East Coast this week, but that could change for the upcoming weekend. Lee is a Category 3 hurricane a few hundred miles north of Puerto Rico and has potential to make landfall somewhere across the Northeast U.S. this weekend. As it …

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