The St. John’s River Water Management district is under fire from Marion County citizens after proposing new regulations that would allow an additional 10 million gallons of water to be extracted from Silver Springs every day.
Read More »Two people were arrested Thursday morning and another being sought for arrest after police say they found them carrying meth and stealing a Bobcat front loader from a Gainesville construction site. The $40,000 Bobcat “looked just like mine,” one of the three, 39-year-old Donald Tanney, yelled about 5:30 a.m. as …
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Jeffery McAdams, a former president of the Gainesville Fraternal Order of Police Lodge, was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison and 10 years probation for stealing money from the union.
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Marion County authorities announced today that Eric Danzell Humbert Jr.'s death in August 2016 was a homicide, bringing last year's homicide count for the county to 16.
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The S.T.E.E.R, program, a partnership between Marion County Sheriff's Office, Florida Highway Patrol and other agencies, was reinstated in February of this year in hopes of minimizing traffic accidents.
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A 19-year-old Ocala man, Kasaan Patterson, has been charged with murder in the Wednesday shooting death of Jeffery Aaron, 26, in Silver Springs Shores.
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One man was killed in a shooting this morning on Pine Course Loop in Silver Springs Shores. Authorities have identified him as 26-year-old Jeffrey Todd Aaron Jr.
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Students and faculty at UF Levin College of Law discussed transgender rights and the pending decision of the landmark United States Supreme Court case, G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board, at an event Tuesday afternoon.
Read More »A Silver Springs woman who was attacked with an ax Friday, died Sunday. Her attacker, Durant Aundrey Smith, is being held at the Marion County Jail without bond.
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The Senate Education Committee has approved a bill that would require Florida public elementary schools to offer 20 minutes of recess each day. Currently, only 11 out of 67 state school districts have unstructured free play time.
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