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Gainesville youth commemorated this week's 50th anniversary of the March on Washington in 1963, but many on Saturday said more civil rights progress needs to be made.

At around 3 p.m. Friday, the group left on the 10-hour-long journey in a charter bus from the Walmart on Waldo Road. They expect to arrive back in Gainesville Sunday night, Chestnut said.

Although Attorney General Eric Holder is taking a stand against "stand your ground" law, other lawmakers, including Rep. Dennis Baxley, believe it is an important law and should remain unchanged.

Rain didn’t stop more than 100 protesters from showing up at Bo Diddley Plaza in downtown Gainesville to march against the George Zimmerman not guilty verdict.

The sixth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Prayer Breakfast Thursday morning commemorated MLK's life and the causes he believed in. Two local residents were also awarded for their contributions to the Gainesville community.

A proposed bill to privatize 27 Florida prisons met defeat on the state Senate floor today in a 19-21 vote.  The controversial bill has drawn criticism and heated discussion from both Republicans and Democrats in the state Senate. Today membes of the Tea Party, corrections workers, labor groups, the NAACP, as well …