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Gainesville's Phoenix Animal Rescue expects to open a rehabilitative ranch for dogs in Levy County by the end of 2014.

Alachua County Public Schools district hosts a series of public forum to address concerns in the search for a new superintendent.

Alachua County School Board members held the first of three forums to gather community input on what qualities are most important in the next superintendent of Alachua County Public Schools.

More than 180,000 signatures have been collected by United for Care campaign in an effort to get medical marijuana on the 2014 general election ballot.

Changes to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act on Wednesday will reduce the number of unsolicited text messages and calls from businesses to consumers' cellular phones.

A UF study using peanut butter and a ruler to detect patients' sense of smell can help with Alzheimer’s disease diagnoses.

A man's possibly life-threatening injuries from Tuesday's afternoon shooting in Gainesville may be self-inflicted, police said Wednesday.

President Barack Obama delivered a speech Tuesday that urged America to involve itself in the Syrian conflict and take a stand against the use of chemical weapons. Some locals were supportive of Obama, but others still weren't convinced.

Sameer Saboungi, a University of Florida student, migrated from Syria when he was a child. The world, not just the United States, has a responsibility to answer to the horrors that have been quickly erupting in his home country, he said.

A third victim, David Griffis, has died after being shot by a former trucking company colleague. Griffis was 44.