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The lions were salvaged before demolition of the historic Alachua County Courthouse in the 1950s.

Florida Fun Bikes rolled out its pedal-powered pubcrawler on Thursday with tours through downtown Gainesville. The Gainesville City Comission recently changed an ordinance making the operation of non-motorized vehicles for hire having more than four passengers legal.

This free exhibit, which will run until March 18, is the first of its kind and shows Gainesville's presence in black history.

The fate of Old Joe remains uncertain. The County Commission and the Matheson History Museum have yet to agree on where the next home of the Confederate soldier statue will be.

Florida is the only state that does not allow nurse practitioners to prescribe controlled substances and one of two states that does not permit physician's assistants the same privilege. A bill in the Florida legislature granting health professionals these prescribing privileges has stalled.

A voicemail to Gainesville City Hall from a South Main Street business owner frustrated over finding someone had again defecated at the entrance to his business has prompted the city to investigate. Gainesville Mayor Lauren Poe, who received the voicemail earlier this week, said he has asked the city manager, the police chief and code enforcement to look into the problem as quickly as possible.

Possession of the drug, which is 7.5 times powerful than morphine, is now a third-degree felony in Florida, punishable by up to five years in jail.

Alachua County has implemented a new program, the Child Services Advisory Council, in order to improve the cognitive abilities of children even before kindergarten.

A second body was recovered Thursday as crews continued searching the Gulf of Mexico for a family missing off southwest Florida, the U.S. Coast Guard reported. Cape Coral Fire and Rescue found the body Thursday morning, about 4 miles from where searchers found another body Wednesday, a Coast Guard news release said. Authorities have not released the identity of either body.

An FAU poll shows that Democrat Hillary Clinton's lead over Republican Donald Trump had dropped to only three points in Florida.