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The staff at the Alachua County Jail will implement new policy changes following an incident in which a baby died after being birthed in the jail.

It’s been nearly 20 years, but Reginald Jackson thinks often about the night a police officer here fired a bullet into his neck after a traffic stop.

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.

Tensions ran high Tuesday night at the Alachua County School Board district office on East University Avenue.

Activists have spent the past three weeks trying to urgently sway Gainesville city budget decisions.

The May-June mass demonstrations in Central Florida were the largest in decades.

Gainesville was one of at least 30 U.S. cities that held a “March for our Freedom,” with organizers saying they assembled the event to honor victims of police brutality and enforce the national Black Lives Matter movement.

Prosecutors charged Michael Drejka with manslaughter Monday Aug. 13, 2018 in the death of Markeis McGlockton whose videotaped shooting in a store parking lot has revived debate over Florida’s “stand your ground” law.

A newly elected prosecutor said she would not seek the death penalty in capital cases on Thursday, but Florida's other 20 state attorneys said they intend to pursue death sentences when appropriate.