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Alachua County’s top choice for county manager, James Bourey of Greenville, S.C., has more than 30 years of experience in local government.

Katie Medina isn’t in the Florida lineup for her hitting ability. But on Saturday, she gave the Gators one of their biggest hits of the season.

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"You’re thinking to yourself, ‘How is it possible that I am going to pay back $150,000 in student loans? I’m never going to pay that back. What am I going to do?’ Listen to me and listen to me good, class of 2013," Suze Orman said.

The University of Florida will offer the Fun & Fit Families program, geared toward the families of overweight children in Alachua County.

About 150 people showed up to protest the agricultural biotechnology corporation Monsanto Saturday in a march from the Harn Museum of Art to the intersection of 34th Street and University Avenue.

Friday’s competition featured cowboy competitors from six local ranches who competed in eight events, while competitors from South Florida competed Saturday night.

A Tallahassee man was arrested Friday on allegations he tried to cut two store employees and bit one when they tried to stop him from shoplifting at an Oaks Mall store.

A Gainesville man was arrested Friday in connection with a May 17 robbery in which a woman was held up at gunpoint, according to an arrest report.

How will Memorial Day adjust business schedules?

A Suwannee County man was killed early Saturday morning when he drove off a dirt road and struck two trees, reported the Florida Highway Patrol.

It should be a picture-perfect weekend to be outdoors — clear and relatively mild, thanks to a cold front that moved through Gainesville late Friday.

A new scholarship program at the UF Levin College of Law has been created to support law school graduates who want a career championing the environment.

An Austrian lumber company plans to build a $130 million sawmill near Live Oak employing 350 people, a project touted as a shot in the arm to the local economy.

The Health Department is searching for a man who Tuesday morning helped assist an injured fox that later was found to be infected with rabies.