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Multiple fire departments battled a mobile home blaze in High Springs and located a missing cat after the fire was extinguished early Wednesday morning. @MYACFR @HighSpringsFD mainstreetdailynews.com/news/firefight…

Gov. Ron DeSantis visited Gainesville on Tuesday to kickstart the next phase of Florida’s DOGE efforts, announcing audits of the city of Gainesville and Broward County. @GainesvilleGov @sethj1998 reporting for @NewsGainesville mainstreetdailynews.com/govt-politics/…

Oak Hall's Dakota Brower leaves a legacy in football and track and field as he heads to play on the gridiron for the University of Pennsylvania. @ThePrepZone @athletics_hall @ridaught reporting for @NewsGainesville mainstreetdailynews.com/sports/senior-…

Alachua County Fire Rescue Chief Harold Theus was recently named 2025 Career Fire Chief of the Year by the Florida Fire Chiefs’ Association. @AlachuaCounty @MYACFR @FlFireChiefs mainstreetdailynews.com/news/harold-th…

School-age students and their families are invited to attend the 26th annual Stop the Violence Back-to-School Rally slated for Saturday. @AlachuaSchools @Nick_A_98 reporting for @NewsGainesville mainstreetdailynews.com/education/26th…

University of Florida faculty conducted a record-breaking $1.33 billion in research during fiscal year 2025, breaking last year’s mark of $1.26 billion. @UF @UFHealth @UF_IFAS mainstreetdailynews.com/education/uf-r…

Live Oak Contracting recently broke ground on Phase II of the Park Lane Apartments, which will add 176 new units to the Southwest Gainesville development. mainstreetdailynews.com/business/phase…

A foreign national was sentenced to 44 months in prison for conspiring to export U.S.-made heavy machinery made in the city of Alachua to Iran in violation of international sanctions. @DOJNatSec @NDFLnews mainstreetdailynews.com/crime/lebanese…

Lake City’s home for craft brews, @halpatterbrew Brewing Company, has gone from property owners to tenants of its historic Montgomery building at 264 NE Hernando Ave. after facing foreclosure. @LillianHamman99 reporting for @NewsGainesville mainstreetdailynews.com/business/halpa…

Entering its 60th season of bringing award-winning dance performances and instruction to Gainesville, @DanceAliveBalle is poised to break ground in August on a new studio. @LillianHamman99 reporting for @NewsGainesville mainstreetdailynews.com/business/dance…

Lake City police arrested an 18-year-old Lake Butler woman Saturday after she left her 2-year-old daughter inside a locked car unattended while inside a movie theater. @LCFlaPD mainstreetdailynews.com/crime/mother-a…

A 19-year-old man was shot Sunday in the 3000 block of NE 15th Street in Gainesville. @GainesvillePD mainstreetdailynews.com/crime/gainesvi…

William Inboden, the current director of the Alexander Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education at @UF, has been appointed executive vice president and provost at the University of Texas at Austin. @Nick_A_98 reporting mainstreetdailynews.com/education/ufs-…

The Lake City Police Department is investigating a Sunday morning shooting that left one man in the hospital, but the department said the victim refuses to cooperate and give information about the circumstances. @LCFlaPD mainstreetdailynews.com/crime/lake-cit…

Alachua County Sheriff’s Office deputies are investigating a shooting at the Westgate Manor Mobile Home Park in Gainesville on Sunday evening. @AlachuaSheriff mainstreetdailynews.com/crime/westgate…

A 36-year-old Old Town man died Sunday morning when his vehicle failed to negotiate a curve on NE Range Road in Lake City, left the road and collided with a tree. @FHPGainesville mainstreetdailynews.com/news/local/old…

A sedan hit and killed a 65-year-old Cross City man who was walking on US Highway 19 in Dixie County early Saturday morning. @FHPGainesville mainstreetdailynews.com/news/suv-hits-…

Ridaught: Gators wide receivers a unique group @ThePrepZone @GatorsFB @ridaught reporting for @NewsGainesville mainstreetdailynews.com/sports/ridaugh…