For the first time in nearly 30 years, Gainesville's St. Francis House will have to slash the number of meals it serves on Thanksgiving and Christmas from more than 400 to 130 due to a city rule.
Jamie Longville, left, and Stevie Scheller, right, decorate a miniature wooden house frame with assorted empty soda cans Tuesday morning on the Reitz Union North Lawn. The freshmen are a part of UF's chapter of Habitat for Humanity that gave away free sodas to bring awareness to the campus organization.
Call it the "dread zone."
An urban and regional planning class at UF is working with the Gainesville Police Department to make burglary more difficult through environmental changes like lighting and shrubbery.
The new admissions office account puts the number of total accounts associated with UF at 25.
UF will test its emergency message system at noon Wednesday. In a summer test, it took more than an hour for some to receive text messages on their phones.
A federal appeals court dismissed a case on Tuesday brought by a Christian fraternity that clashed with UF after it was not allowed to select members based on religion.
Florida's backcourt just got a little deeper.
While members of the UF soccer team traveled to familiar Southeastern Conference destinations like Athens, Ga., and Knoxville, Tenn., Tricia Townsend was exploring Budapest.
More than 100 participated in the annual sexual health fair hosted by Vox: Voices for Planned Parenthood outside the Reitz Union.
Five strokes separated the Gators from a first place finish at the Isleworth Invitational, their last tournament of the season.
Saturday sees a strong showing for established folk punk artists including Andrew Jackson Jihad and Defiance, OH. If you like the genre's political side, be sure to check out Tim Barry's twangy commentary on current topics. If the fun side is more to your liking, Sharks Come Cruisin' serve up acoustic, nautically-inspired shanties and traditional songs of the sea.
Odds are you've read a blog. Blogs are all over the Internet these days, and they cover basically every topic you can ever think of. Yes, We Can Hold Babies is an example of how any random topic can become a blog, and an entertaining one at that.
The Gainesville City Commission's choice to enforce a 130-meal limit for St. Francis House this Thanksgiving shows how disconnected it is from many of Gainesville's residents.
An Okeechobee man said he was fired from his cashier job at Home Depot for wearing a pin that read, "One nation under God."
Maybe it's selfish, but I like to believe that humanity has evolved to the point that allows me to have a few modern mechanical luxuries.
The dean of UF's College of Nursing was not selected to be Georgia Southern University's president.
When we were in middle school, stuck in an awkward stage wearing bowl cuts and braces, not getting an invite to the coolest party in town could've crushed some of us. Now, however, we're all grown up, and exclusive guest lists don't move us to tears.
Today's date? Oct. 27, 2009. The season according to any 5-year-old that you ask? Fall. The temperature as of 4:54 p.m on this day: 82 degrees.
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