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Mosquitos are annoying at the very least. But with their ability to spread disease, they can be deadly.

Two and a half years ago, the University of Florida College of Medicine recruited Dr. Duane Mitchell and his lab team away from Duke University to build up a UF program on brain tumor research.

Two Gainesville men and a Gainesville woman were arrested Saturday for their alleged involvement in an orchestrated attempt to take the cash drawer from a Taco Bell drive-thru clerk.

Gary Anglin co-founded ReUser Building Products 20 years ago to sell materials salvaged from his renovation and construction jobs.

The notion that employers would hold a family, or the maternity leave it would require, against a female lawyer -- which Calvin said she bases on honest advice from professors -- is just one of the realities that Calvin and her female classmates can expect upon graduation. A recent study through the Young Lawyers Division of the Florida Bar paints a broader picture of the field that female law students will face, with 43 percent of female respondents reporting in 2015 that they had experienced some sort of gender bias.

Happy Easter!: If you celebrate, and if you don’t, Happy Sunday!

On the third Friday of every month, Jack “Murph the Surf” Murphy makes the hour drive from his home in Crystal River to play his fiddle at the Honky Tonkin Opry at the Church at Triple Cross Ranch in the rural community of Shiloh in northwest Marion County.

Signs are important to the Potenza family, as in a photo of a child who later became a member of the family. That happened twice, actually.

Ocala police were called to the 2100 block of Southwest Sixth Street after shots were fired in the area shortly before 1 a.m. When they arrived, there was a crowd, and three people wounded from gunfire.

Hundreds trickled through the conference room at Wyndham Garden Gainesville to catch a glimpse of the scaly creatures and buy new pets. College students and families traveled from around the Florida and Georgia area to share in their appreciation of the exotic animals.