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City and county officials have tried for two years to make it so bus riders won’t have to cross the dangerous street.

A new anti-panhandling ordinance went into effect on April 6  in the city of Saint Augustine that prohibits people from panhandling within 20 feet of the entry or exit of commercial property.

Larson does what many deem unthinkable — he's a pastor who runs a bar. One day when he was praying about the struggle to turn a profit, he heard God say, “Take care of the fringe and marginalized in the nations, and I’ll have them take care of you.” Now, Larson thinks it would have been a sin not to buy the bar.

The idea of benefits for certain Other Personnel Services workers at the University of Florida has re-emerged.

In the recent years Sweetwater Branch Creek along University Avenue and 4th Avenue has become a forgotten park and littered waterway. Now volunteers are trying to clean up the creek that flows through the downtown area of Gainesville, located between the Matheson History Museum Complex and the Alachua County Library District Headquarters.

Virginia Bruzzese, known as Nurse "Ginny" in Gainesville, is using her decades of nursing experience to help the medically underserved via the UF Mobile Outreach Clinic.

St. Augustine's Tourism & Development Council is planning an education campaign asking tourists to donate money to charities, rather than the homeless, as concerns escalate over how a growing and visible homeless population could impact visitors and local businesses.