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A man was killed and a woman injured when a single-engine airplane crashed Saturday morning at the City of Ocala/Ocala International Airport.

The dragsters that roar down the strip at the Gainesville Raceway can make the quarter-mile pass faster than the cars Saturday on a course that was more like 25 yards, but that wasn’t the point.

In late March, President Barack Obama appeared at a national summit on heroin and prescription drug addiction and pushed for better treatment options and access to health care to address an opioid epidemic that contributed to more than 28,000 deaths in 2014.

Two busy Gainesville intersections will get some much-needed improvements starting Monday, but the work will mean some inconvenience for drivers and pedestrians.

Its Super Tuesday Alachua County-style this week, as voters in the city of Alachua, Archer and Newberry all head to the polls to vote in their local elections.

Celebration Pointe’s eminent domain lawsuit against its neighbor, the Reserve at Kanapaha apartments, was shaping up as a case of public good vs. private benefit.

In the Superintendent's Math Challenge, elementary and middle school will show they're better at math than we could ever hope to be.

300 Alachua County elementary school students and 110 middle school students woke up on a teacher workday Friday and went to Buchholz High School to do math.

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.