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Black Friday to include discounted cat adoptions in Butler Plaza
By Davona Williams | Nov. 25, 2013Forget Black Friday — it’s Black Furday if you ask Puppy Hill Farm Animal Rescue.
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Sunday Amazon delivery launches in select cities
By Davona Williams | Nov. 12, 2013Just in time for the holidays, Amazon and the U.S. Postal Service are partnering to offer Sunday package delivery to customers in two cities beginning this week.
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Tampa-based Chinese restaurant finds home in Gainesville
By Davona Williams | Nov. 6, 2013Students hailing from mid-Florida may recognize a new addition to the Gainesville restaurant scene.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Alachua County domestic violence task force Peaceful Paths launches
By Davona Williams | Oct. 22, 2013“Gary killed her.”
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How Do You Roll? cuts prices to $5 for 5-year anniversary
By Davona Williams | Oct. 20, 2013In celebration of the chain’s five-year anniversary, a local sushi restaurant is rolling back menu prices to $5.
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New, colorful $100 bill makes national debut
By Davona Williams | Oct. 8, 2013The newly designed $100 bill began circulation Tuesday. The note’s high-tech design is the Federal Reserve’s way of staying a step ahead of the counterfeiters, said Detective Matt Goeckel, Gainesville Police currency expert and task force liaison with the U.S. Secret Service.
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Millennials, technology changing face of work ethic, study says
By Davona Williams | Oct. 2, 2013They are the least religious, the most technologically savvy and the best-educated citizens in America’s history. They are the millennial generation — or so a Pew Research Center study that’s recently been in the news seems to indicate.
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K-12 EDUCATION
One in 10 high school seniors are extreme binge drinkers, study says
By Davona Williams | Sep. 17, 2013Jayson Blaire said he wanted to join a fraternity before entering college — until he realized drinking heavily was one of the requirements to be accepted.
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Loud noises coming from biomass plant area has residents upset
By Davona Williams | Sep. 5, 2013Noise from the area of Gainesville’s new biomass plant has become the cause of complaints among nearby Whitney Mobile Home Park and Turkey Creek community residents.
