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A number of students in Hall have been charged with threatening local schools after Apalachee shooting. Here’s how authorities are handling the cases
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Judge Joe Diaz in his office at the Hall County Courthouse in Gainesville, on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2017. - photo by David Barnes
Ben Anderson
The Times
Updated: Oct 16, 2024, 7:42 PM
Published: Oct 16, 2024, 5:57 PM
In his nearly nine years as Hall County’s juvenile court judge, Joe Diaz says he has never seen so many students charged with threatening violence against local schools in such a short period of time.
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Gainesville man arrested, charged with interfering with school bus after dropoff goes awry
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Nick Watson
The Times
Updated: Apr 3, 2025, 9:13 PM
Published: Apr 3, 2025, 8:51 PM
A Gainesville man was arrested after he followed a bus twice and held the bus doors open trying to get a child off the bus, according to authorities.
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