Alachua County ranked among the highest for reported cases of rabies in animals this year, according to recently released data from the Florida Department of Health.
The blue trees on Turlington Plaza are fading away as the paint nears the end of its life expectancy, and students have taken notice.
Though some public universities have allowed religion-based dorms to be constructed on their campuses, students shouldn’t expect to see them at UF anytime soon.
A former deputy fired an accidental shot Tuesday evening after a Keystone Heights man tried to steal his lawn mower.
A recent case study conducted by three Mayo Clinic doctors suggests that young people who have overcome obesity in the past are at a higher risk of developing eating disorders, and some locals are weighing in to confirm the data.
Today, the Lubavitch-Chabad Student Center in collaboration with the Lubavitch-Chabad Student Group will host a Good Deed Mitzvah Marathon from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Turlington Plaza.
A local HIV advocacy group received renewed funding last week, so it can begin offering meetings outside of Alachua County.
Although the mood in the Chesterfield Smith Classroom in the Levin College of Law turned comical as Tuesday’s Student Senate meeting was briefly interrupted by a shirtless student playing the saxophone for a promo video for Gator Growl, rhetoric stiffened with discussion of party neutrality.
It was Sept. 11, 2001, and Kevin Weschler was excited.
A small crowd gathered on the front steps of Tigert Hall on Monday in response to UF failing to pay 60 to 80 graduate assistants.
Jeff Driskel’s redemption was imminent.
By noon, a third of the class was gone. As the minutes passed, more kids in my fourth grade class were being pulled out by panicky parents. During lunch, the few of us remaining were confused. The rumor in the cafeteria was that the Chinese had attacked us. The idea of the Commies invading U.S. soil made sense to my 9-year-old mind. Earlier that year, an international crisis had occurred after a mid-air collision between a U.S. Navy plane and a Chinese fighter jet. Diplomatic tensions soon subsided, but sitting in the cafeteria, I figured the only thing that could force my buddies to evacuate our elementary school was a ground invasion of South Florida by the Red Army.
Although it may seem as if Florida was run out of the gym by then-No. 1 Penn State on Sunday, there were enough positives to leave the Gators optimistic moving forward.
Recent debate over American military intervention in Syria has sparked Cold War memories, and the parallels are stark. As I watched a discussion between Sen. John McCain and French writer Bernard Henri-Lévy at a Washington think tank on YouTube from November, this resemblance became apparent.
Each week, two alligatorSports columnists will debate the biggest looming matchup in college football. Today, Joe Morgan and Phil Heilman preview No. 1 Alabama’s showdown against No. 7 Texas A&M in College Station, Texas, on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. on CBS.
The authority to impeach the president of the United States is one of the most seldom-used powers granted to Congress by the Constitution.
Taylor Burke has been unbeatable in the net during September.
The final round of the Cougar Classic was successful for Florida.
Yesterday, we reported that UF had shifted upward in the U.S. News & World Report’s university rankings. Among public universities, we are now 14, and among national universities, we are 49. Damn, it feels good to be a Gator.
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