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Gainesville city commissioners will invite six candidates to town for personal interviews as they search for a new city manager.

Sheriff's spokesman Art Forgey said the van belonged to the teen's mother, who told authorities he stole it from her house and that she wanted to pursue charges.

Gainesville City Attorney Nicolle Shalley and City Clerk Kurt Lannon were awarded salary raises Thursday after city commissioners discussed their performance during the last fiscal year.

Authorities in Union County and High Springs are investigating suspicious incidents in which a van approached kids walking along streets and a man asked if they needed a ride, the Union County Sheriff’s Office reported.

A Gainesville woman walked into a local Publix and paid $25 for a scratch-off ticket that won her $10 million, the Florida Lottery announced Thursday.

The birds that mysteriously disappeared from an island off Cedar Key last year still have not returned, and now the cottonmouth snakes there are cannibalizing each other.

Gainesville was the 21st most educated city in the country in a personal finance company’s ranking of 200 metropolitan areas.

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This year’s spring Parade of Homes will feature a sneak peek of two new subdivisions and 25 new homes in 13 communities that showcase popular design trends such as outdoor recreation spaces and natural interior finishes.

A fourth person has been charged by police with taking part in a home invasion robbery from early Tuesday morning when a group of men barged into a woman’s apartment while she and her son were home.