Phone scammers demand money for family members
Two UF students have been targeted by phone scammers claiming to be holding their family members hostage in the past month, according to a University Police public bulletin.
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Two UF students have been targeted by phone scammers claiming to be holding their family members hostage in the past month, according to a University Police public bulletin.
The pancreas transplant program at UF&Shands has reopened and is accepting patients.
An unidentified man who robbed a woman south of campus Sunday night is still at large, according to Gainesville Police.
Paper tombstones hung from the walls of La Casita on Thursday, but it wasn’t because of Halloween.
For Taylor Nones, getting money to redecorate her apartment started with an iPhone photo of her friend’s messy room.
Illegally loud music, skintight fashion and the ever-present scent of Pabst Blue Ribbon invaded the streets of Gainesville this weekend.
Frankie Muniz performed in Gainesville on Sunday, but he wasn’t the star of this show.
A team including four UF grads released a pocket-sized protein shake this week.
The crowd screamed for Zoe Jakes before it could see her.
Consul General of Israel to Florida and Puerto Rico, Chaim Shacham, spoke at UF Hillel on Monday about politics in what he called “one of the toughest neighborhoods in the world.”
When Jason Alexander was greeted by applause at UF Hillel on Wednesday afternoon, he wasn’t sure if the crowd was clapping for him or his full head of hair.
Angelos Barmpoutis doesn’t want distance to keep students from sharing a classroom.
UF is among more than 100 U.S. and international universities that had records and account information leaked Monday by an anonymous group of computer hackers called Team GhostShell.
Before Will Claye ran like his brother, he walked like him.
When Ranee Ramaswamy started spilling coarse rice flour on the polished black floor of UF professor Joan Frosch’s choreography classroom Monday, no one asked her to stop. That’s because the nationally recognized performer and teacher wasn’t making a mess — she was making art.
UF may be one of the country’s 50 most expensive schools for out-of-state students, but the cost of tuition is one of the best investments students can make, according to a ranking by Smart Money.
Gators March for Babies will host its first charity golf tournament Saturday at the Meadowbrook Golf Club.
To disprove a nearly 30-year-old rule of quantum physics, scientists had to travel to the coldest spot in the known universe — 30 feet below UF’s campus.
Like many fans, Jake Sillick and Elizabeth Graham camped outside for the best seats in the Stephen C. O’Connell Center, road-tripped out-of-state and cheered on the UF men’s basketball team for years together — but didn’t meet each other for four years.
Bryce Zinckgraf was unlocking his bike when she handed him the pills.