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“I think it’s become a tradition,” she said, “people love coming out to experience downtown in a way that doesn’t happen every day of the year, and it’s a really nice weekend in the fall for people to come out with their families.”

Growing up in Gainesville’s Eastside and going to a Title I school where “a lot of my peers were victims of gun violence or perpetrators of it,” Tubbs’s personal experience inspired her to create social change.

University of Florida students who are studying from Jamaica or have families there are struggling to contact their loved ones after Hurricane Melissa brought catastrophic damage to the island last week.

Over the weekend, Ford’s family walked miles to find cell reception to call her. They described communities without water, electricity or phone service.

As both a lawmaker and pharmacist, Abbott brings a “different knowledge” to the legislature and the regulation side of healthcare, allowing him to “help the practice of pharmacy be in a better spot,” he says.

Prosecutors dropped the felony criminal charge of making a false report about the bomb and formally charged him with felony petit theft over the theft of the $5.97 in candy bars.

“When I flew over the scene, you could see where it initially crashed into the ground,” Kramer said, “it just blew up, like pieces were everywhere, and I didn’t see anybody.”

“These are generic drugs which we should be making money on because they’re cheap,” Smith said, “but no, the insurance companies know how cheap they are, so they pay you even less.”

A judge agreed Thursday to a request by prosecutors to keep jailed indefinitely a man who police said admitted to sexually assaulting, groping or stalking at least five women near the University of Florida campus in recent weeks.

To rejuvenate the community and attract visitors, the Waldo Historical Society is hosting its first annual Sweet Potato Festival and Car Display on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Waldo City Square.