This morning, Julia Sutton will slip on a red skirt speckled with white elephants to watch the inauguration of the 45th U.S. president.
Today, the nation’s 45th president will place his hand on the Bible, swear the oath of office and assume the presidency. In turn, Michelle, Malia, Sasha, Bo and Sunny Obama will leave the White House. From this day forward, we’ll refer to Barack Obama as our former president.
“The porta-potty was my birthday present,” Trina Hernandez said, barely containing her giddiness.
A UF professor will serve under incoming President Donald Trump on the National Medal of Science committee.
In the days since Gainesville became acquainted with Bernard and Louie, two puppies rescued from a South Korean meat farm and transported to the Alachua County Humane Society, many have fallen in love.
Two friends have spent the past year taking pictures of more than 3,000 pages of UF Student Government resolutions in an effort to create a database.
A group of about 70 people celebrated Arbor Day on Thursday by planting a ceremonial tree with a golden shovel.
A Gainesville woman was arrested Wednesday after she tried to push a police officer down stairs, Gainesville Police said.
As schoolchildren waited for their guardians to pick them up Wednesday afternoon, a man walked past Chester Shell Elementary School carrying a rifle, a bullet and three dead squirrels.
A single fluorescent light in a dark theater conveyed a message to the incoming president’s agenda: unity.
By next week, the asbestos in the Reitz Union will be gone.
Well, dear reader, today is the day we have been insurmountably hoping would never come — Inauguration Day.
A lot of knowledge can be packed into the tiny text boxes of Twitter — this sentence alone is less than 140 characters from start to finish.
We’ll start off with some trivial internet culture stories. Zoo Miami humanely euthanized one of their gorillas this week — their 49-year-old matriarch, Josephine, the grandmother of internet-sensation Harambe. Really, 2017? You’re going to hit us with that right off the bat? Please, internet, don’t turn this one into a 6-month-long meme. Thankfully, Josephine was laid to rest peacefully after years of failing health. But we throw a dart at the universe for setting 2017 off with another gorilla death just as we begged it for no more shenanigans.
Portions of the Reitz Union are contaminated with asbestos — and they have been for more than a month, although UF’s spokespeople were unaware.
Picture the National Baseball Hall of Fame as the expensive flower vase that sits in your mom’s living room.
Rachel Slocum stands at 5-foot-3.
Kasey Hill knifed through a forest of players like a speeding predator toward its prey. He ripped the ball out of the hands of South Carolina forward Sedee Keita and sprinted down the court. Florida’s 6-foot-1 guard was all alone when he leapt into the air and kissed the ball off the glass and into the basket.
As President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated Friday, UF students can watch the ceremony at five different locations on campus.
Disillusioned with its dinner crowd, Midtown’s The Coop now serves breakfast — and it’s offering free coffee until Friday.
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