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34th Street Wall Vandalism
Three Gainesville Police officers responded to the 34th Street Wall after one or more people spray painted a swastika on its memorial, which honors five students murdered in 1990. “It is sick,” a responding GPD officer said.
COME AND GET ‘EM
Students wait in line to get their Big Orange Festival tickets at the Reitz Union on Thursday. This year, the event will host DJ Khaled and Bo Burnham. It will be held on Friday night.
Fugitive
Pictured is the opening to the attic in Ifeyiek Akanni's home, where fugitive Victor Lamar Cruger reportedly hid while authorites searched the house Aug. 28, 2015.
Fugitive
Deputies from the Alachua County Sheriff's Office at the scene on Aug. 28, 2015.
Fugitive
Pictured is Ifeyiek Akanni's room in her home on Southeast Seventh Avenue. Fugitive Victor Lamar Cruger, who is a suspect in the murder of Ernestine Griner Hines in Green Cove Springs — a city about an hour northeast of Gainesville — and hid in the house, was arrested. Aug. 28, 2015.
Shooting
An Alachua County Sheriff's Office police car is stationed outside Joseph Williams Elementary School Aug. 28, 2015.
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An Alachua County Sheriff's Office police car is stationed outside Joseph Williams Elementary School Aug. 28, 2015.
Moving out & Giving back: What to do with all your stuff
Seeing Sounds
Bells and Robes perform at The Jam on Saturday night during the release party for “One Should See Sound Part II.”
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Bells and Robes perform at The Jam on Saturday night during the release party for “One Should See Sound Part II.”
A bright future
Pictured are solar panels outside ECS Solar Energy Systems Inc., the first licensed solar contractor in Florida, in February. The price of solar energy technology has dropped by 50 to 60 percent the past three years, according to Wendell Porter, lecturer and advisor in Agricultural and Biological Engineering at UF.
A Real Page-Turner
Frances Brown, an 18-year-old UF biochemistry freshman, takes cover from the wind Tuesday afternoon on the North Lawn while cracking open a 1951 science fiction novel called “The Day of the Triffids.”
Guns
A sign outside of Best Jewelry and Loan, on 523 NW 3rd Ave, advertises guns for sale. Violent crime in America is receding, but gun violence remains relatively stable. Someone under the age of 25 is killed from gunfire every 70 minutes, according to a report by the Center for American Progress.
Midtown crash
Police stand on West University Avenue after a man and woman were struck by a car while crossing the street without a signal Friday night.
Covering Krishna
From left, Franco Fae, 21, and Eduard Shahpazov, 40, begin relocating vegetarian meals to the safety of the Library West colonnade.