As rain fell and wind rustled through leafy oak trees, Newberry residents and officials gathered Friday to collect soil in remembrance of six Black people who were lynched there in 1916.
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Gainesville was not alone in experiencing hit-and-run fatalities in 2020.
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Local law enforcement gathered near West University Avenue Friday to demonstrate increased pedestrian safety efforts.
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The Gainesville Police Department has announced a traffic safety crackdown in the wake of multiple recent deaths of University of Florida students on streets near the campus.
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An ordinance clarified the local historic preservation board’s power, the City Commission’s role in helping it and process of future preservation. As part of the process, the commission and board held a joint meeting in April 2019 to discuss hiring a preservation planner.
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Under the Constitution, the final step in the 2020 presidential election is for a joint session of Congress to meet on Jan. 6 to count the Electoral College votes and officially declare a winner. Governors certified and sealed their states’ results after their electors signed off on them on Dec. …
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Local Alachua County immigration activists said the victory of President-elect Joe Biden provided a sigh of relief.
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The new county boundaries would stretch from the Gilchrist County-Alachua County border east to West 34th Street in Gainesville.
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Since 2000, records show 388 babies have been abandoned in Florida.
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University of Florida and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission researchers have studied the common snook for more than a decade, tracking their movements and recent invasion into the waters near Cedar Key, a town with fewer than 700 residents an hour southwest of Gainesville.
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