Smiley faces, top hats and, yes, even that creepy, winking cat emoji are new ways to search through Yelp’s application for local business and restaurant recommendations.
Today is National Alcohol Screening Day, and more than 600 colleges in the U.S. will be holding free alcohol screenings on their campuses to help students identify any problems they may have with alcohol abuse. It’s a fantastic idea; after all, nearly 2,000 Americans ages 18 to 24 die each year from alcohol-related injuries. The annual screenings are hosted by a nonprofit called Screening for Mental Health, which advocates mental-health and substance-abuse resources to be made readily available to those who need it.
There are two criminal justice systems in the U.S.: one for the rich, one for the poor.
Chris Walker will stay in Gainesville for another year.
By only 127 votes, Helen Warren beat Annie Orlando for a spot on the City Commission in Tuesday night’s runoff election.
From frosted tips to a zebra suit or a new tattoo, desperate Dance Marathon participants will do just about anything to earn money for a good cause.
Gainesville Police is looking for a man suspected of stealing another man’s iPad on West University Avenue on Tuesday afternoon.
The new Austin Cary Learning Center, dedicated Saturday, will provide space for weddings, club meetings and nature-related activities.
Liesel Appel’s birth was dedicated to Adolf Hitler, but her life was not.
More than 600 colleges across the U.S. are participating in National Alcohol Screening Day this Thursday as part of National Alcohol Awareness Month, but UF is not among them.
Valens Nteziyaremye can’t go home to the family awaiting his return.
TALLAHASSEE — Florida State students arrived two hours before the game to get a ticket. They sat throughout Dick Howser Stadium and filled the right-field bleachers to capacity.
Coach Will Muschamp preaches strength to all of his linemen, but with less than a week left in spring practice, there are weaknesses on both sides of the line of scrimmage.
Kathlyn Medina wasn’t in the starting lineup when UF dropped its first contest to FSU on April 2.
The year was 2009. Coach Mike Holloway and his current assistant Erin Tucker were scouting four sprinters who would make Florida a threat for years to come.
After a 13th-place finish at the Chris Schenkel Invitational on March 14-16, coach Buddy Alexander expressed his disappointment in Florida’s lack of improvement.
With a $75 million endowment and a new teaching hall, UF’s Warrington College of Business Administration is making positive changes — but a new Bloomberg Businessweek ranking says otherwise.
Tuesday night’s Senate meeting was all about the money.
On Tuesday night, teams of super heroes, police officers and football players gobbled as many wings as their stomachs could handle in fewer than five minutes.
The debate about whether e-cigarettes should be sold to minors in Florida is, as one might guess, a love story between Big Tobacco and a lucrative market: teens with money to burn.
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