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Informant Posing As Klan Hit Man Leads To Prison Guard Bust
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter GAINESVILLE (CBSMiami/AP) — Officials are saying an FBI criminal informant faked pictures of a black man’s death to help build a case against three Ku Klux Klan...
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Gators Offensive Tackle Rod Johnson Out Indefinitely
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter GAINESVILLE (CBSMiami/AP) – The Florida Gators football team has already had a setback and we haven’t even reached the summer yet. Florida offensive tackle Rod...
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Panther Found Dead, Struck By Car In SW Florida
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter MIAMI (CBSMiami) – For the 10th time this year, a panther has been struck and killed by a car. The remains of an uncollared 1-year-old female panther was found...
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Gators Lineman Rod Johnson Has Career-Ending Spine Issue
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter GAINESVILLE (CBSMiami/AP) — The Florida Gators football team already has an obstacle to overcome, and it’s still only April. Florida offensive tackle Rod Johnson...
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Donovan Says Goodbye, Gators Move On With Coaching Search
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter GAINESVILLE (CBSMiami/AP) — It wasn’t a matter of if, but rather when former Florida Gators basketball coach Billy Donovan would take a job coaching in the NBA....
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Florida State Coach Mike Martin Receives 2-Year Extension
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida State baseball coach Mike Martin has signed a two-year contract extension through the 2017 season. Florida State released...
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Groups Sue To Block 24-Hour Waiting Period For Abortions
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – A day after Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill requiring a 24-hour waiting period before Florida women can have abortions,...
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Lawsuit Targets Religious Monument
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter MIAMI (CBSMiami/NSF) — An atheists’ group filed a lawsuit aimed at removing a granite monument of the 10 Commandments that stands outside a Levy County...
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Judge Blocks Florida’s 24-hour Abortion Waiting Period
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (CBSMiami/AP) — A Florida judge blocked a 24-hour waiting period for abortions amid a controversial legal battle. Circuit Judge Charles Dodson...
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Second Amendment Group Argues For Guns In University Dorms
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – The Second Amendment should supersede a Florida law that bans firearms from state university housing, a gun-rights group argued...
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Grooveshark Co-Founder Discovered Dead At Gainesville Home
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter GAINESVILLE (CBSMiami/AP) — Authorities are looking into the death of the now defunct streaming music service Grooveshark co-founder, found in his Florida...
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Gators RB Adam Lane Leaves Program, Plans To Transfer
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter GAINESVILLE (AP) — Florida running back Adam Lane is transferring seven months after earning most valuable player honors at the Birmingham Bowl. Coach Jim...
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Justices Give Victory To Rural County In Records Dispute
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter TALLAHASSEE (NSF) – The Florida Supreme Court has declined to wade into a dispute about whether a rural North Florida county should have been required to pay...
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Florida Hopes McElwain Era Includes Passing Improvements
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter GAINESVILLE (CBSMiami/AP) — It’s been a while since the Florida Gators were on top of the college football world. Florida coaches have been trying to improve the...
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University Of Florida Announces $64.5M Renovation To O’Dome
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter GAINESVILLE (CBSMiami/AP) — Sun Life Stadium isn’t the only Florida sports venue that’s getting an expensive makeover. The O’Connell Center on the University of...
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Gators Name QB Will Grier Starter Against East Carolina
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter GAINESVILLE (CBSMiami/AP) — The starting quarterback job at the University of Florida appears to be a fluid situation. Florida is flipping its quarterback...
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Panther Killed In Southwest Florida
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter NAPLES (CBSMiami/AP) — A Florida panther was struck and killed by a vehicle on a southwest Florida highway, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission...
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North Florida Man Loses Arm In Wood Chipper
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter GAINESVILLE (CBSMiami/AP) — A north Florida man is recovering after he lost part of his arm in a wood chipper accident. Roberto Serrano, 60, was putting tree...
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Court Upholds UF Policy Barring Guns In Dorms
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) — A state appeals court upheld the University of Florida’s ban on firearms in university housing, rejecting arguments by gun rights...
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Possible Unhappy Ending For Florida Movie Making
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The HBO sports drama, “Ballers” and the Netflix series “Bloodline” are the only big productions being shot in South Florida, but they might...
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Florida Court Hears Case Challenging Abortion Waiting Period Law
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/AP) — A Florida court will hear a case challenging a state law that requires women wanting an abortion to wait at least 24 hours before...
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Police Save Choking Baby During Search For Suspect
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter GAINESVILLE, Fla. (CBSMiami/AP) — Two Florida police officers were in the right place at the right time – just in time to save a choking baby. Police spokesman...
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Work Continues To Remove Confederate State In Gainesville
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter GAINESVILLE (CBSMiami) – Work continued Monday morning to remove a Confederate statue that is a memorial to men of the Gainesville area who lost their lives in...
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UF Flip Flops, Will Consider Allowing White Nationalist Speaker On Campus
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter GAINESVILLE (CBSMiami/NSF) – With the threat of a federal lawsuit looming, University of Florida officials say they will consider allowing white nationalist...
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University Of Florida Student Falls From Balcony, Dies
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter GAINESVILLE, Fla. (CBSMiami/AP) — A University of Florida student died after falling from a third-floor balcony. Gainesville Police Department Lt. Paris Owens...
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Man Accused Of Hurling Concrete Blocks At Police Cars
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter GAINESVILLE (CBSMiami/AP) — A Gainesville man found himself behind bars over the weekend for something that will always land you under arrest. He is accused of...
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Wrestler Rich Swann Arrested, Charged With Battery Of Wife
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter GAINESVILLE (CBSMiami/AP) — A former WWE star is behind bars in northern Florida. Wrestler Rich Swann is being held without bail in a Florida jail after he was...
View ArticleSheriff’s Deputies Killed In Restaurant Ambush
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter GAINESVILLE (CBSMiami) – Two sheriff’s deputies in northern Florida were killed inside a restaurant Thursday afternoon when a gunman walked up and fired through...
View ArticleFive Children Heading To Disney World Killed In Fiery I-75 Crash
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter GAINESVILLE (CBSMiami/AP) – Five children from Louisiana and two truck drivers were killed in a fiery crash on I-75 just south of Gainesville Thursday afternoon....
View ArticleFlorida Man Fatally Shot At Restaurant After Argument
GAINESVILLE (CBSMiami/AP) — One man is dead and another behind bars following a shooting at a beloved southern restaurant chain. Authorities in Florida say a 41-year-old man was fatally shot after he...
View ArticleRapper Jun Jun McCallum Accused Of Threatening To “Shoot Up” University Of...
GAINESVILLE (CBSMiami/AP) – An Ocala rapper was arrested after he reportedly threatened to shoot up a University of Florida football game. Alachua County Sheriff’s deputies arrested 26-year-old...
View ArticleFlightless Bird That Killed Florida Man To Be Auctioned
GAINESVILLE (CBSMiami/AP) — The exotic, flightless cassowary bird that killed a Florida man is being auctioned off with 100 other exotic animals from the same estate. The Gainesville Sun reports the...
View ArticleGainesville Gator Crashes Couples Romantic Lakeside Picnic
GAINESVILLE (CBSMiami) – A gator crashed a romantic picnic by the lake and went on a feeding frenzy on the couple’s spread of food. Taylor Forte had planned the picnic for her fiance Trevor Walters at...
View ArticleVIDEO: ‘I Remember Thinking We’re Gonna Die’: Survivor Recalls Deadly Church...
NEW YORK (CBSMiami/CBSNews) — “CBS This Morning” has obtained jarring new video of the moment a semi-truck plowed into a church van killing seven people in January near Gainesville. Five of the victims...
View Article‘Somewhere, Somehow, Somebody Must Have Kicked You Around Some,’ Here Comes...
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) — In a great big world with lots of places to run to, the Florida Historical Marker Council agreed Friday that one of those spots should be in the hometown of the late...
View ArticleHistorical Marker Coming In Tom Petty’s Hometown Of Gainesville
TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – In a great big world with lots of places to run to, the Florida Historical Marker Council agreed Friday that one of those spots should be in the hometown of the late...
View ArticleFlorida Man Accused Of Beating, Raping Pregnant Girlfriend To Kill Fetus
MIAMI (CBSMiami/AP) — Police in Gainesville say a 20-year-old man beat, raped and threatened his pregnant girlfriend with a knife in hopes of killing the fetus. An arrest affidavit says Joseph Bernard...
View ArticleFlorida Residents Being Urged To Evacuate When Sinkholes Expand Near Homes
GAINESVILLE (CBSMiami/AP) — A sinkhole in a north Florida neighborhood is expanding and now residents of six homes near that sinkhole are being urged to evacuate. Johnnie Candiano, 22, his brother Beau...
View ArticleSouth Florida Family Mourns Loss Of Daughter Who Died After Being Struck By A...
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – A South Florida family is mourning the loss of their daughter. Eighteen-year-old University of Florida student Sophia Lambert, who is from Miami, died Saturday night after being hit...
View ArticleFlorida Hospital Performed Life Saving Double Lung Transplant On Nurse Who...
GAINESVILLE (CBSMiami) – Utah Intensive care nurse Jill Hansen Holker spent months taking care of the sickest COVID-19 patients, but in November it was the 43-year-old who became infected with the...
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