The staff of the Marion County Sheriff’s Office spent Thursday evening as guest wait staff to raise money and awareness for the Special Olympics during their Tip-A-Cop event.
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PACE expansion will welcome 14 new girls to the program. The new PACE Butterfly Center will provide more physical space that includes showers, a large common room and a kitchen complete with sinks, microwaves and refrigerators.
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Skaters compete in the Miami Ultraskate — an annual skateboard race in which riders skate around a 1.5-mile racetrack as many times as they can in 24 hours.
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The Gainesville City Commission is having to start over in its search for a solution.
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After months of mudslinging, weeks of court wrangling and days of ballot counting that again landed Florida in an unwelcome national spotlight, a state panel matter-of-factly finalized the 2018 election results in a five-minute meeting Tuesday. The certification came on time, but problems with other election-related deadlines in two large, …
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Florida is emerging as an epicenter of the nation’s polarizing politics in the final days of the 2018 campaign. In the closely contested campaign for governor, President Donald Trump and GOP nominee Ron DeSantis have used what has been called racially coded language to slam Democrat Andrew Gillum. The battles …
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Hurricane Michael was the most powerful storm to make landfall in the continental U.S. in more than 26 years. The now tropical storm is moving over Georgia on its way to the Carolinas.
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It’s been more than 70 years since the historic town last had a practicing doctor. Dr. Jon Hemstreet opened his new practice, Micanopy Wellness Center, located a three-minute walk from the center of town.
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Two years after a report called a walk through Dignity Village "devastating," city officials are still working toward closing it down.
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In 2014, the county had 646 reported animal bites, including 381 by dogs.
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