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Police task force arrests, charges serial rape suspect

The suspect in an investigation of five rape cases since July was arrested Thursday and taken to the Marion County Jail. 

Police collaborate to track down rapist

The Gainesville Police Department and other law enforcement agencies have created a task force to locate a suspect who they say is connected to a string of five rapes in two counties since July.

UF Pro-Life Alliance promotes message with cupcakes, sprinkles

Melisa Bieden didn't get to celebrate her birthday this week or get a cupcake in her name.

A knock at the door

Editor's note: The names of the victim and her boyfriend have been changed to protect their identities.

Sexism, honor crimes results of culture, not Islamic faith

A few days ago, I read a news story about a man from the Middle East who shot his daughter dead in the hospital after she gave birth to twins because her husband passed away four years ago.

The Mailbag: Defense, steaks and hostages

Welcome to the first incarnation of the alligatorSports mailbag. It’s a working model, but we hope to answer any and all questions you have on Gators sports. And we’ll make it fun.

What they didn't tell you at Preview

If you've made it to this page by now, you probably want to slug a small child for all the Orange and Blue fapping that I've allowed to take place in this New Student Edition. I know you don't give two squirts of R. Kelly's piss about Gator Nights or the smorgasbord of student clubs that provide good, clean Christian fun - you want to know the best place you can pound booze and get away with sexual harassment without the long dick of the law getting in your way. I know I sure as hell did.

After dodging death, rape victim looks for answers

A woman who was raped and beaten is trying to get the word out about her attacker.

Ex-Gators track star nets high profile attorney

Three weeks after his arrest on a sexual assault charge and subsequent dismissal from Florida, former track and field athlete Dumisane Hlaselo has employed an attorney familiar to most Gators football players embroiled in legal troubles.

A pissing contest like no other: My encounter with Rick Scott

Last Thursday, my good buddy/managing editor/the-man-who-has-the-sense-to-never-let-me-run-a-Muhammad-cartoon Joey Flechas and I drove down to St. Petersburg for the annual Florida Press Association convention. For the few of you who don't religiously follow the inner workings of Florida print media, the FPA convention is where a bunch of godless leftist journos/"media academics"/anyone with a hard-on for the written word from all across the state gather at some palace of a hotel, dress up in outfits picked out by Stevie Wonder and try to outstroke each other in rhetorical masturbation. Essentially, it's like the Republican National Convention with the exception that there's a limit to how much free booze you can guzzle.

Lost in the sauce: traveling along the greener pastures

"Sith, get one of your boys to cross the Mekong. Bring back a couple of shopping bags full of pot."

He did it again!; But then again, it's Rick Scott (he tends to do this)

This isn't even fun anymore.

Police ask for students' help in search for local rapist

The Gainesville Police Department is calling on UF students to help them identify, catch and arrest a wanted man who robbed and raped a local woman Sunday.

Men, women walk for sexual assault awareness

More than 100 people marched down University Avenue on Thursday night to speak out against date rape and sexual abuse.

Women walk for sexual assault prevention, awareness

At dusk, women will try to reclaim the night.

In defense of the word 'feminist'

In my first post, I wrote about the negative stigma attached to feminism. But it's recently become clear to me how often people have problems with the actual word itself, sometimes more so than its meaning. The label "feminist" really seems to rub people the wrong way -- so much so that replacements are often used that don't mean the same thing at all. 

GPD reports 16.3 percent drop in crime in 2010

When Chief Tony Jones became head of the Gainesville Police Department in 2009, one of his goals was to decrease crime in the city by 5 percent.

Women's rights at the bottom of the totem pole for House Republicans

Chances are you've heard of the major cuts on federal funding the House is proposing under its new leader and chronic crybaby, John Boehner. The new Republican majority is attempting to reduce our federal deficit, but it can't help imparting some of its moral and religious stances in the cuts. 

Tutoring services an unwelcome crutch

TutoringZone is God, right?

AIM For Africa and RUB Entertainment Present The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo