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The head coach and two players rose from their seats and walked to the front of the Eastside High School auditorium in Gainesville.
Read More »A crowd of hundreds gathered to remember Eastside High School student Dabien White
The Point, Sept. 16, 2022: Gov. Ron DeSantis says Florida is no ‘sanctuary state’ for immigrants
The controversy continued for a second day after his decision received national pushback.
Read More »From helmet to headset: Gator Hoskins leads Rams after loss of teammate
The game will be played in honor of senior offensive lineman Dabien White, who died on Sept. 4 of undisclosed causes.
Read More »The Point, Sept. 15, 2022: In a surprise move, defense attorneys for confessed Parkland school shooter rest their case
The announcement frustrated the judge and prosecutors on Wednesday.
Read More »Man who died in motorcycle crash had complex past but was working to turn his life around, family member says
This story has been updated to include comment from the owner of the motorcycle, update the headline, add Lovett family comments and to replace the photo of Lovett with one from his family. READ: Open Letter to the Community about our Coverage Why we reported this story this way This …
Read More »Defense suddenly rests case in Florida school shooter trial
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Attorneys for Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz suddenly and surprisingly rested their case Wednesday after calling only a fraction of their expected witnesses, leading to a shouting match after the judge accused them of a lack of professionalism. Cruz’s attorneys had told the judge and prosecutors they …
Read More »A 12-year-old boy is learning about business, and life, slinging snow cones in Ocala
Dreyton McDonald knows he’s not a regular kid and he likes it that way. “I guess you can say, I’m a businessman, ma’am,” the 12-year-old politely told NPR. And he has been for several years now. At age 9, he said his father, Dominic McDonald, approached him with a proposition: …
Read More »The Point, Sept. 1, 2022: Charlie Crist leaves Congress ahead of general election
Crist will take on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in November.
Read More »‘It’s Wakanda’: Inside a Gainesville public charter school defying the achievement gap
The school's students, nearly all Black, earned the highest learning gains in the district and outperformed the county's white students on the state assessment.
Read More »Alachua County School Board elections: District 5 features pair of competing educators
With District 5 board member Rob Hyatt announcing that he won’t run for the seat he's held since 2014, that district is guaranteed to have a new member elected later this month in either Kay Abbitt or Prescott Cowles.
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