Every new season brings with it a fresh start and clean slate, but for this year’s installment of the Florida women’s tennis team, there is more freshness than usual.
Like any young team searching for confidence, credibility and an identity, Florida is looking to test itself.
Kentucky running back Jojo Kemp — who grew up fewer than two hours from Gainesville — said he will have a cheering section of more than 50 people in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium when the Wildcats visit the Gators on Saturday.
J.C. Jackson’s first season at Florida is over.
In Florida’s season opener against Eastern Michigan, all eyes were focused on the offense.
To hear the desperation and sorrow in her voice broke my heart. Sofía, a Salvadorian mother recounted the events that led her to make a decision to send her two sons away. Many may ask, how can a mother send her sons on such a treacherous journey? Sofía was threatened by the transnational gang Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13, that it would kidnap and kill her sons if she did not comply with its demands. Unfortunately, she is not the only one.
Starting this fall, ABC is implementing a lineup that completely trumps every other network's diversity efforts.
Gainesville stores are sold out of pepper spray and rape whistles following a string of four attacks on and around UF’s campus since Aug. 30.
Teach For America released its seventh annual list of schools that contribute the greatest number of alumni to the teaching corps.
Sunday night, a string of texts lit up on my phone. As soon as I saw the short UF Alert number, I knew — dreading it, but knowing it — another case of battery had just been reported to the police.
The final day to register as a candidate for a UF Student Senate seat officially ended at 5 p.m. Tuesday.
Last week, former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell was convicted of corruption. McDonnell was once a shining star in the Republican Party and was a potential 2012 running mate for Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
Ashley Shalna knows how hard it can be to meet new friends on campus.
Alexandra Webel can’t step out of her apartment at night without being afraid of what might lie in the dark.
As Gainesville High School seniors begin the college application process, a report released this month suggested preference — not prestige — is the main factor in choosing a school.
Sgt. Maj. Kevin Watt started playing the trumpet 41 years ago. He now performs with the Jazz Ambassadors U.S. Army Field Band.
Paranoia ensued Tuesday night as Gainesville Police responded to a call near Sorority Row, but the incident was not related to the recent string of assaults on and near campus.
In the aftermath of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the nation’s attention has turned to the issue of police brutality. The problem of abuse and excessive force by law enforcement also extends to America’s prison system. Nowhere is inmate abuse more evident and prevalent than in Florida.
When Jenna Bilodeau establishes herself, she wants children.
They haven’t appeared just yet, but they’re coming soon.
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