Gainesville was one of at least 30 U.S. cities that held a “March for our Freedom,” with organizers saying they assembled the event to honor victims of police brutality and enforce the national Black Lives Matter movement.
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Adam Mandel, 19, of Weston, Fla., was driving as fast as 80 mph on West University Avenue, when he lost control on a Thursday evening in January and crashed his Lexus sports car into a guardrail and hit a utility pole. Mandel’s passenger was his 20-year-old girlfriend, Kassandra Guzman-Ramirez of Weston, who died from her injuries.
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Last month, a Nielsen report found that around the peak of the coronavirus on March 14, vegan meat sales increased by 279.8% compared to the year before.
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Alachua County has once again called on artists to fill the gaping hole a Confederate soldier statue left behind.
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Alachua County raised the legal tobacco age from 18 to 21 last October, but full enforcement has been slow to get under way.
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The building has sat empty for more than three years, southwest of Gainesville’s downtown restaurant and nightlife area, but a developer now has its eyes on the Jones B-Side restaurant property.
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Now founding director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University in Washington, he visited Gainesville to promote his latest book “How to Be an Antiracist.”
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Though the project took longer than expected, visitors can now say the process was delayed, but never denied.
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The lodge, 215 N. Main St., was built in 1908 and is a part of the U.S National Register of Historical Places.
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A giant goose costume, a hoagie building competition and hard hats and shovels marked the occasion Tuesday as Wawa held two groundbreakings to celebrate its expansion to Gainesville.
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