Ashlyn Reese

Many bars in midtown are not recycling, a violation of Gainesville's commercial recycling ordinance.

Gov. Rick Scott signed a new education bill into law April 14, which will allow kids to attend any public school. For students who play a FHSAA sport at one school, this section of the bill comes with a catch: students who transfer cannot play that same sport at their new school during the same season.

His mother is pressing charges, but she could still be forced to pay for the damage.

Lara Drondoski, a UF kickboxer that won the 2015 United States Intercollegiate Boxing Association National Championship, is set to compete again this year in California starting April 7.

Idylwild Elementary School in Gainesville held a fun run this morning to raise donations and support 9-year-old Kylie Galloway Soto, a fourth-grade student at the school battling a rare form of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

The $10,000 will help provide a new video studio for middle and high school students.

Technologies, such as screen readers, allow the blind to use computer programs to listen to text being read by an automated voice. That’s one of the reasons for the decline in braille literacy, according to the Florida Division of Blind Services. But that has created challenges for the blind who are not literate.

After 30 years of trials and appeals Oscar Ray Bolin, 53, who was convicted of fatally stabbing and bludgeoning three Tampa Bay area women in 1986, was executed at Florida State Prison in Starke. Relatives and friends of his victims expressed relief at his execution, while death penalty opponents and his attorneys continued to believe that he was innocent.

A video roundup of local, state and national stories for readers in North Central Florida.

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