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Members of the Gainesville Jewish community say a Florida House bill that proposes to make antisemitic acts felonies is long overdue.
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An international group of artists is scheduled to paint a series of murals in High Spring in March, but residents remain at odds over the historic themes…
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A 27-year old man is facing charges after police say he vandalized the sign outside the UF Institute of Black Culture. UFPD was notified of the damage to the sign at 1510 West University Avenue. When they checked video surveillance, they saw Marvelle Blair uprooting the sign, according to police. He was arrested Thursday night on charges of criminal mischief, trespass after warning and assault on a law enforcement officer. Blair is not affiliated with the university but was issued two trespass warnings in 2021 and was banned for campus for three years. He also previously damaged the same sign in May and November of 2021 and was found guilty of criminal mischief both times. This is the second incident recently regarding vandalism of signs or monuments related to UF’s Black community. Someone vandalized plaques in the National Pan-Hellenic Council Garden but police do not believe the incidents are related.
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City employee Chelsea Carnes developed the program.
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Amid the pandemic and a host of Martin Luther King Jr. commemorations nearly two years ago, a small group of students, alumni, faculty and administrators…
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After traveling almost 1,000 miles in her RV to make the move from Dallas, Texas to Gainesville one week ago, 41-year-old SolAmor Ildefonso found herself…
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Pride Center of North Central Florida board members arrived Saturday morning to find their building's front door and window shattered. Among the rubble, rocks and a hateful note were found.
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Alachua County Circuit Judge James M. Colaw last week sentenced Deontre Donnell Mason, 25, of Carterville, Illinois, to one year of house arrest followed by four years of probation with electronic monitoring. Mason pleaded no contest to nine felony charges of video voyeurism.
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The city of Gainesville launched graffiti reduction programs a decade ago that appear to have succeeded, along a rise in legal street art.
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A Florida appeals court is denying a Jacksonville man’s legal appeals to invoke the controversial “stand your ground” law over the death of his girlfriend, the latest case to define limits on claiming that a killing might be justified as self defense.