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From GPD police chief to mayor Ed Braddy, Gainesville officials were happy Thursday to see a new tenant take over Pastor Terry Jones' former church property. "Good Lord," Braddy said, "it really weighed heavy on the men and women who are living here, raising children here."

For Joy Revels, home is metal screen-printing presses, a shirt dryer outfitted in state magnets, tubs of ink and boxes upon boxes of T-shirts. Her business, Dragonfly Graphics, produces 2,000 shirts a week for schools, businesses, events and churches.

The Dove World Outreach Center, a Gainesville-based church that has sparked international controversy, may be moving to Tampa Bay. The church is well known for its flagrant anti-Islam message, projected in inflammatory acts like Koran burnings and anti-Mohammed Internet videos.

A video round-up of local, state and national stories for readers in North Central Florida: Ocala ban on voluntary burns, Dove World Outreach Center property, South Florida lottery generosity, gay rights hearings, Cypress banks reopen.

Mayor Craig Lowe has three pillars regarding Gainesville's current status upon which he has built his reelection campaign ahead of the March 19 election.

A controversial Gainesville church, Dove World Outreach Center, will not move to SW Florida this November as once expected.  Finances are holding up the private buyout.  Dove World pastor Terry Jones says a move is still expected, but when it comes he may now move the church to Ft. Myers …

Afghan officials say eight foreigners and four Afghan protesters were killed at a United Nations compound in Northern Afghanistan Friday. The attackers were retaliating after news reports surfaced that Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville had burned a Koran on March 20th. Minutes after the …

Last year Gainesville found itself in the national and international spotlight when Dove World Outreach Center Pastor Terry Jones announced his plans to burn copies of the Koran. As a result of poor publicity, Gainesville City Manager, Russ Blackburn and Alachua County Manager, Randall Reid joined together to write an …

While Terry Jones has wrapped up his plans to cancel any sort of Quran burning, American media analysts are starting a mission to reform the way the American media covers Islam-related stories. WUFT-FM’s Katiana Krawchenko has more. [audio:http://www.wuft.org/media/audio/Muslimcoverage.mp3]

Despite all the controversy caused by a Gainesville Pastor to burn Qurans last week, the pastor says he wouldn’t change how he went about his plans. Now the World Evangelical Alliance is calling on Pastor Terry Jones to apologize for International Burn a Quran Day. But as WUFT’s Empriss Campbell …