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An Ocala boutique expands into Gainesville Saturday, offering young contemporary women’s clothing including dresses, tops, bottoms, jewelry, accessories and shoes.

UF Health Shands Children's Hospital officials and community partners will coach parents on how to keep children safe and healthy this summer at an April 23 event.

More than 250 people are expected to raise money and show their support for research on congenital heart disease this weekend, organized by Gators for the Children's Heart Foundation.

Alachua County Animal Services is at capacity and will offer free pet adoptions Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Gainesville Shambhala Meditation Group will give visitors a chance to realize their own sanity during an open house Saturday.

In a warehouse up on Main Street, Sue Harms pushes her glasses up her nose and dives into boxes of donations. Sorting her findings into piles, they are slowly shelved in preparation of the bi-annual sale.

Alachua County investigators have filed manslaughter charges in the 2007 death of Heather Ann MacCrossen.

Watching brown, undrinkable water flowing from faucets and hydrants day after day as the Flint, Michigan water crisis unfolded in the media had many Americans wondering if such a catastrophe could ever happen where they lived.

Incumbents retained their commission seats by a wide margin in Alachua and Newberry Tuesday night, a trend turned upside down in Archer where the challenger emerged the victor.

Chickens were free to roam Interstate 75 early Wednesday morning after a crash damaged the trailer they had been riding in, requiring the authorities to briefly shut down the road.