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A Starke man was killed on Waldo Road Thursday morning when he tried to make a U-turn in his Ford Mustang, lost control of the car and ended up in the path of an oncoming semi, officials say.

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

A Starke man was sentenced Thursday to multiple life terms for the 2012 killing of a Union County man during a home invasion robbery, the Eighth Circuit State Attorney Attorney’s Office reported.

The Los Angeles-based dance company Bodytraffic was formed by two women who wanted to dance.

The Waldo Community School building has been empty last summer, when the city's only school closed after almost 150 years.

Hiking and running for a cure for diseases has become a common form of fundraising. But for some military veterans, their hikes are not raising awareness for a cure. The hikes are the cure.

On Friday, Pope Francis released a major church document titled “The Joy of Love,” in which he stressed the importance of making decisions based on one’s own conscious instead of solely off of the Vatican rule when dealing with matters of love as relates to sex, marriage and family life.

Gainesville Regional Utilities has moved to join Jacksonville’s power company in a plan officials say will save millions of dollars a year — savings that could be passed on to customers in the form of lower rates.

Fun with sticks and moss: Kids from 3 to 11 can make a magical “fairy house” out of moss, acorns, bark, pine cones, dried flowers and seashells at 2 p.m. at the downtown library.

Entertainment editor Bill Dean has some suggestions for the weekend.