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Latest emergency information from Alachua, Dixie, Gilchrist and Levy County Emergency Management, including evacuation orders, shelters, school closures, and sandbags.

Samuel W. Oliver, Sr., a lifelong artist, teacher, and member of one of Bethune-Cookman University’s “Total Families,” died on Sept. 9 at Halifax Health Medical Center. He was 82.

“I Want to Be an Artist!” Samuel W. Oliver, Sr., son of the late Prince Benjamin Oliver, Sr. and Constance Taylor Oliver, was born on February 28,...

Ernest Maloney Page IV pleaded guilty in 2020, but his sentencing was delayed while former State Attorney Jeff Siegmeister also awaited sentencing.

When a bottlenose dolphin was found dead in Florida's Dixie County earlier this year, a marine animal rescue team from the University of Florida (UF) did not immediately suspect anything out of the ordinary when they performed a routine necropsy. Tests for common causes of death turned up negative in this young male dolphin found at Horseshoe Beach.

The findings represent the first time a highly pathogenic form of the virus, which has devastated bird populations this year, has been detected in cetaceans.

UF: This is the first known bird flu case in a dolphin or whale species in North America. A porpoise in Sweden died of avian influenza last month.

UF: This is the first known bird flu case in a dolphin or whale species in North America. A porpoise in Sweden died of avian influenza last month.

UF: This is the first known bird flu case in a dolphin or whale species in North America. A porpoise in Sweden died of avian influenza last month.

UF: This is the first known bird flu case in a dolphin or whale\u00a0species in North America. A porpoise in Sweden died of avian influenza last month.