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Newberry Road damaged by 60-foot sinkhole
By Adam Turner | May 31, 2017Traffic was delayed on West Newberry Road after a 60-foot sinkhole collapsed the eastbound lane early Wednesday morning.
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Suspect in Hawthorne homicide being held in Putnam County Jail
By David Hoffman | May 31, 2017Brenda Cassels still wears her daughter’s favorite pink T-shirt. It was a special tradition they shared.
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21 people taken to hospital in recent ‘spice’ outbreak
By David Hoffman | May 31, 2017Law enforcement is still trying to find the source behind what city officials describe as an “outbreak” in spice, or synthetic marijuana, that has sent at least 21 residents to the emergency room since Saturday night.
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Gainesville residents protest outside Rep. Yoho’s office
By Catie Wegman | May 31, 2017“This Land is Your Land” and “God Bless America” rang from the mouths of Gainesville residents as they protested outside of U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho’s office Tuesday afternoon.
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City honors veterans on Memorial Day
By David Hoffman | May 29, 2017On Monday, nearly 7,000 makeshift tombstones reminded those traveling down Eighth Avenue of the thousands of Americans who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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GPD: Woman used doggy door to trespass
By David Hoffman | May 29, 2017A woman was arrested Sunday after entering a Gainesville resident’s house through a doggy door and drinking four bottles of wine.
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City Commission creates subcommittee for affordable internet
By Catie Wegman | May 29, 2017Gainesville has the highest cost of internet in the state of Florida.
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Gainesville woman arrested after slapping two Ross employees
By David Hoffman | May 29, 2017A homeless woman was arrested last week after police said she attacked two employees at the checkout line of Ross Stores.
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Satchel’s Pizza to rebuild Lightnin’ Salvage Enterprises
By David Hoffman | May 29, 2017When Satchel Raye thinks of fire, he doesn’t feel defeat — he sees a new opportunity.
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Local organization to donate 150 ‘starter libraries’ to kindergartners
By Kasey McElheny | May 29, 2017Gainesville kindergartners will begin accumulating their first personal collection of books this week.
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Gear Up Florida stops by in GNV as part of 850-mile trek
By David Street | May 29, 2017Last week, about 40 fraternity brothers stopped in Gainesville to take a break from an 850-mile bicycle ride through Florida.
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New child care center to open in southwest Gainesville in 2018
By Samantha Brown | May 29, 2017City officials and community members celebrated the groundbreaking of southwest Gainesville’s first affordable early childhood education center last week.
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UF alumnus included on Forbes Brasil’s ‘30 under 30’
By Catie Wegman | May 24, 2017When Andres Andrade arrived to Brazil in 2013, the then 26-year-old never imagined that four years later he would be one of the country’s most successful businessmen.
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SF student arrested after trapping professor in office
By David Hoffman | May 24, 2017A 19-year-old Santa Fe College student tried to force a math professor to give him a make-up exam Monday afternoon.
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UF Health North spends about $85 million on expansion
By Catie Wegman | May 24, 2017UF Health North in Jacksonville opened the doors to its brand new inpatient tower Tuesday.
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County Commission votes to relocate Confederate statue
By David Hoffman | May 24, 2017Amid the humid weather, steady rush-hour traffic and loud honks from cars passing by, protesters and counter-protesters stood on opposite sides of University Avenue and Main Street chanting back and forth.
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Local artists and musicians come together to ‘Keep Art Alive’
By Michelle Lam | May 22, 2017Local artists and musicians came together this weekend to keep the arts alive.
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GPD: Credit-card skimmer found in a Waldo Road gas pump
By David Hoffman | May 22, 2017At about 9 a.m. Thursday, Gainesville Police detectives and state inspectors met at a West Newberry Road parking lot to launch Operation Clean Sweep.
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UF employee held at gunpoint by another driver while on Williston Road
By David Hoffman | May 22, 2017The other side of a pointed gun was the last thing a 19-year-old Williston resident and UF employee expected to see on his trip to Gainesville for a doctor’s appointment Thursday.
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Alachua County experiences fifth fire in past two months
By David Hoffman | May 22, 2017Kelly McPherson felt a sense of relief Friday night. The 10-acre wildfire that erupted in Levy Prairie, one of her field sites, was contained the same day it sparked up.
