Picture this, you start a fundraiser. In 15 days you raise $4,500, but you set your goal at $9,600. If you don’t raise the full $9,600, you get nothing, zero, goose egg.
Gainesville humanitarian Dennis “DiscoDen” Franklin said he believes there are more than 300 children just like the one he described, in Gainesville and the surrounding region, fighting for survival.
On the Reitz Union Colonnade, Stoner’s orange and blue jewelry creations catch the eyes of sneakered parents dangling canvas Preview totes, a man in a tie eating a Burger King Whopper and students in sunglasses sipping on Starbucks.
Part of the roof in Sade Williams’, 26, master bedroom at the 2017 NE 15th St. house fell on her head.
As part of The Alligator Awards recognizing the best in UF athletics during the 2011-12 season, columnists Joe Morgan and Corey McCall will debate two of the five nominees in each week’s category. Vote for the winner online at alligatorSports.org.
I don’t care about the Home Run Derby.
Although the 2012 season is over and the U.S. Olympic trials are finished, that didn’t stop three Gators from competing last weekend. Marquis Dendy, Jeremy Postin and Eddie Lovett all participated in the North American, Central American and Caribbean Under-23 Track and Field Championships in Guanajuato, Mexico.
UF’s Leisure Course Program begins Monday for Summer B, offering hobby, music and sports classes to students and Gainesville residents.
About 40 UF researchers were among the thousands of scientists who discovered what they believe to be the “God particle.”
An off-duty Alachua County paramedic found an unidentified man stabbed early Monday morning.
The decrease in temperatures should mark the end of a heat wave that has affected much of the U.S. since late June, experts say.
Gajda said this year, the department is 1,000 tickets below its average 21,500 UF band and student tickets — about a 5 percent decrease.
They had just performed at Gatormania, a student organization fair showcasing diversity on campus.
On Monday, United States Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), officially won his battle against the now-infamous synthetic drug bath salts — the substance that supposedly caused Rudy Eugene to eat a man’s face on a causeway in Miami back in May.
The Gainesville City Commission selected Nicolle Shalley as the new city attorney.
Self-image and self-esteem are two incredibly important qualities that need nurturing basically forever. But it is much harder to keep a positive outlook on those traits when you’re a girl.
Gainesville was recently named the top city in the state for Forbes magazine’s 14th annual “Best Places for Business and Careers.”
In a study by Dr. Daniel Klein at the Kaiser Permanente in northern California, higher rates of coronary heart disease have been found in patients with HIV. With already-high rates of heart disease, more research and policy must be directed toward these health initiatives.
Gainesville Police arrested Alphonso Perry Hinton, 41, for sexual assault, aggravated battery, forced prostitution and false imprisonment, according to Alachua County Jail booking logs.
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