Search continues for Ocala cobra following escape
(03/20/17 12:00am)
After disappearing from an Ocala home a week ago, a 2-foot-long cobra has popped up on Twitter.
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After 40 years, doors close for good at Burrito Brothers
(02/06/17 12:00am)
Surrounded by about 15 employees in his kitchen Saturday night, an anguished Randy Akerson folded his restaurant’s last burrito — a flour tortilla stuffed with beef, beans, cheese, sour cream and lettuce.
Burrito Bros. sells out, has second busiest day
(02/01/17 12:00am)
For the second consecutive night, Burrito Brothers Taco Co. ran out of food Tuesday, its second busiest day in 40 years.
Hundreds flock to Burrito Bros. day after news of closure
(01/31/17 12:00am)
The line of customers Monday snaked from a cash register, around a table and out the door, where the grating hum of construction reminded Randy Akerson that his business, after 40 years, was going under.
snake mug
(01/24/17 10:38pm)
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Man kills snake with detergent, police say
(01/24/17 10:37pm)
A man was arrested Monday after police identified him as responsible for poisoning a pet snake and burglarizing $4,500 worth of electronics, Gainesville Police said.
Research Roundup: November 29, 2016
(11/28/16 11:09pm)
Solar systems might form differently than was previously thought, UF researchers discovered.
Emotions high for Cuban faculty, students after Castro’s death
(11/27/16 11:59pm)
Early Saturday morning, Pedro Luis Perez screamed until he lost his voice.
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(10/31/16 12:03am)
Mark Sandfoss, a 32-year-old UF zoology doctoral student, holds up a Florida cottonmouth snake at Seahorse Key, Florida. Sandfoss is researching how the snakes are being affected by the loss of birds on the island.
UF graduate student studies an island mystery
(10/31/16 12:03am)
Mark Sandfoss, 32, walks up and down the shoreline of an uninhabited island in the middle of the night looking for venomous snakes.
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(10/30/16 11:36pm)
Mark Sandfoss, a 32-year-old UF zoology doctoral student, holds up a Florida cottonmouth snake at Seahorse Key, Florida. Sandfoss is researching how the snakes are being affected by the loss of birds on the island.
‘Trump Train’ comes to Ocala
(10/13/16 12:00am)
With no protesters in sight, thousands of eager voters snaked their way through a parking lot before packing into a raucous Ocala stadium Wednesday to hear Donald Trump speak.
Free Chick-Fil-A coupons for lucky students Wednesday night
(08/30/16 12:02am)
A group of patient students may receive a week’s worth of Chick-fil-A food Wednesday night.
Opinion: Body-shaming, hypocrisy and Sriracha sauce
(05/31/16 12:00am)
Like any good writer in the 21st century, the controversial topics I address are inspired directly from what I see on social media. Based on that alone, this week I was forced to decide between three things: whether Hillary Clinton’s lying habits are worse than Donald Trump’s, those one-minute cooking videos that always end with that one dude making sex noises to the image of food — “oh ye-AH!” — or some asshole at the gym again.
Florida men's golf looking to continue success at NCAA Regionals
(05/15/16 8:29pm)
The last time the Florida men’s golf team competed, the Gators battled a tough golf course and even tougher conditions on their way to a tie for third at the Southeastern Conference Championship.
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(04/07/16 12:16am)
Gary Sansone, an 18-year-old UF digital arts and sciences freshman, holds his snake, Naomi, for the UF Wildlife Society at the Earth Day event on the Plaza of the Americas on Wednesday.
Column: Faux-personalism breeds a new populism
(03/06/16 10:08pm)
"This perfect recycling tended to present itself, in the narcosis of the event, as a model for the rest: like American political life itself, and like the printed and transmitted images on which that life depended, this was a world with no half-life.” —Joan Didion, “Political Fictions”
Editorial: Don't get a pet unless you can care for it
(02/24/16 9:38pm)
As college students, we deprive ourselves of a long list of things. Typically this list includes sleep, food and money, but there’s that one thing that especially seems to be missing, especially when we’re still getting accustomed to being away from home: a pet.
Python Challenge ended Sunday, 102 pythons captured
(02/16/16 12:29am)
As of Sunday, South Florida has 102 fewer pythons.
Museum of Natural History gets 3-D scanner
(02/07/16 11:33pm)
With the help of a new scanner, UF researchers will be able to enlarge, rotate and see details of specimens.
