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With the weather cooling, Florida's high school and college marching bands are getting a reprieve from recent temperatures that surpassed 90 degrees during rehearsals and game day. Gainesville's high temperatures on football Friday and Saturday will be in the 70s.

Tamari Davis took home the gold medal in the women's 4x100-meter relay at the World Championships held in Budapest in August. She joined teammates Gabrielle Thomas, Twanisha Terry and Sha'Carri Richardson to set a championship record with a time of 41.03.

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The University of Florida’s backup quarterback played his whole season in the shadows of struggling starter Anthony Richardson — and now, it turns out, a sensational child pornography investigation, too. The criminal investigation, which began in June and unfolded slowly over five months during a disappointing 6-6 season, has redirected national attention on the Florida Gators – under new head coach Billy Napier – and quarterback Jalen Kitna, 19, of Burleson, Texas. Kitna was released from jail on an $80,000 bond late Thursday, after his first court appearance in a case involving five felony counts of possessing and distributing child pornography online.

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Amid the pandemic and a host of Martin Luther King Jr. commemorations nearly two years ago, a small group of students, alumni, faculty and administrators…

Gainesville hotels, restaurants, businesses and city residents plan ahead to accommodate the influx of out-of-town visitors and locals on University of Florida game days, which bring in significant revenue to the city. But some residents complain of traffic and overcrowding on game weekends.

Gainesville police on Thursday said they arrested the parents of a 3-year-old boy shot and killed while he played with a pistol at a home in east…