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After his death last year, Army Sgt. Dick Alson Lee’s jersey number was retired by Keystone Heights High School. This season, the football team brought it back to honor him.

The Marion County Sheriff's Office is seeking an additional $8 million in funding to provide more deputies, corrections officers and cars for its fleet. All of this is needed for public safety.

Jewish community members in the Gainesville area will soon have a new religious facility available.

A petition to the U.S. Department of Agriculture from several animal rights groups is seeking a federal ban on licensees who allow the public to have direct or physical contact with big cats, bears, or nonhuman primates of any age, as well as breeding them. Not every Florida big cat owner agrees with the proposed regulations.

The usually fun-spirited Gainesville Roller Rebel Derby girls weren't playing games Wednesday when they came to Gainesville's city hall to support broadening the sale and consumption of alcohol citywide.

A wildlife biologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Research Center in Gainesville is one step closer to solving Florida’s python infestation.

After years of speculation, a state report shows contamination from the Cabot Koppers site in Gainesville has not led to an increased cancer rate in the…

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

Small businesses may have some light at the end of the fiscal tunnel. WUFT-FM's Briana Rittersporn says Governor Rick Scott’s new budget proposal includes…

Florida officials are still being fined for not disclosing their financial information as part of a 2013 state ethics overhaul. Marion County's supervisor of elections said, “Unfortunately, I think a lot of people don’t take the fining process seriously."