Study shows that cellphones carry bacteria found in feces
By Javier Peña | Nov. 13, 2011History junior Liz McNeill uses her MacBook and BlackBerry to check emails and to send about 30 text messages every day.
History junior Liz McNeill uses her MacBook and BlackBerry to check emails and to send about 30 text messages every day.
Police arrested 23 Occupy Gainesville protesters early Saturday morning for trespassing at Bo Diddley Community Plaza after the park had closed, sending three of them to the Alachua County Jail and giving the others notices to appear in court.
For the second straight tournament, Tahnai Annis made sure the Gators advanced past the first round.
Disability Awareness Week, hosted by Student Government, began Friday. But Meredith Raymond, director of the Disability Affairs cabinet, said she hopes the entire week will foster an awareness of people apart from their disabilities.
Jaterra Bonds’ desperation heave found nothing but net, cutting the Gators’ deficit in half at the buzzer.
Not even a power outage could stop gamers from participating in National Gaming Day @ Library West on Saturday.
Gone are the hopes of Florida’s women accompanying the men to the national championship meet. Gone are the women’s chances to appear in six straight championships. Gone is their season.
UF students placed first and second among more than 200 U.S. teams and 13th and 14th in the world in a recent international programming competition.
First-set losses have plagued Florida’s volleyball team all season.
Will Clint Eastwood's "J. Edgar" starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Armie Hammer make the cut for the Oscars?
More than 250 people got up early Saturday morning and went for a run in an effort to be more healthy.
Before she left her home, Parinee Mitchell lugged all of her furniture to the second story of her house and wrapped her car in a plastic tarp, being careful to seal each open edge. Then she said her final goodbyes to her possessions, hoping it wasn't the last time she would see them.
Nathan Skop knows how hard it is to park in Gainesville - especially downtown.
A story about The North Florida Herald that ran on Nov. 4 incorrectly stated that the paper had a circulation of about 33,000. The paper had a circulation of about 3,300.
In Palm Bay, Nick Martinez recently found out by being suspended that his school, Southwest Middle, does not tolerate public displays of affection.
After talking to people in my classes, I find that few know very much about something called a 401(k). How we use it will determine who among us are millionaires at retirement and who will live in poverty. Our grandparents got pensions and worked for the same employer for 30 years. We will be given the option to use one of the most powerful financial tools ever created for retirement, but some will succeed wildly and some will fail miserably. When you go out and get a job after graduation, funding a 401(k) should be near the top of your priority list.
I would like to thank the Alligator as well as the authors of "Obama is No Better Than Che Guevara" for providing one of the best "fake news" articles this side of the Onion. Their send-up of the intellectual inconsistency and naïveté of the extreme left was nothing short of sidesplitting. I mean, how could anyone read an article defending mass-murdering tyrant Muammar Gadhafi as a leftist hero and not indulge in a hearty chuckle?
This past Tuesday, I witnessed a couple on a Route 36 bus "first-basing it" while a guy sitting across from them stared intently, jostling his naughty bits.
The UF Supreme Court released its final opinion on Sunday regarding the Student Government Senate elections.
UF administrators experienced success and frustration during the Board of Governors meeting Thursday in Boca Raton.