Four Gainesville business owners swapped success stories Monday night, encouraging a generation of young women to follow in their footsteps.
Gainesville-area residents can learn more about the plight of farmworkers at events put on as part of National Farmworkers Awareness Week.
Although there are numerous series featuring these masked heroes, the one that stands out most in my mind is “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” — the original, of course, which first aired in 1993.
The tremendously popular trilogy, "The Hunger Games," written by Suzanne Collins has attracted a widespread following, mostly among young adults.
Bob Harrington shot Allan Reimer three times soon after 7 p.m. Sunday, and Gainesville Police found Reimer, 51, dead at the scene.
A group of about 100 people protesting the death of Trayvon Martin marched from Turlington Plaza to the FBI’s downtown office Monday afternoon.
Life without Tyler Thompson is proving to be more difficult for Florida than anyone could have imagined.
The Gators will have a different look when the 2012-13 season begins.
After struggling with its first two events Saturday at the Southeastern Conference Championships, No. 1 Florida trailed No. 6 Georgia by a margin of .125 points.
Students have three weeks left to file their taxes.
Dimitri Sillam and Mikhael Naayem’s website Grantoo, a free social gaming website where students play games and win money for college, launched at UF on Sunday.
Three UF student-run startup companies won thousands of dollars in cash prizes and services at the Entrepreneurship Club’s Fourth Annual Venture Pitch Competition on Monday.
Students who live off campus and can’t find the time to shop for groceries now have an alternative to standing in the checkout lines in Gainesville.
In an article published in the March 19 edition of the Alligator about the rise of recreational gun use, the definitions of trap and skeet shooting were printed incorrectly. Skeet shooting involves a clay target flying out of one of four bunkers in a specific order: one top and lower bunker on the left and right. In trap shooting, targets are ejected out of a small shack in the middle of the field and randomly thrown left, right or straight ahead.
I am disturbed, saddened and ashamed at the barbaric killing of seven innocent people, including three children, in Toulouse, France, that occurred Tuesday.
PHOENIX — As Peyton Siva, Kyle Kuric and Russ Smith celebrated, jumping up and down on the US Airways Center floor and donning T-shirts and hats emblazoned with the words “Final Four,” Brad Beal, Erving Walker and Kenny Boynton fought back tears.
PHOENIX — Before all of the wins, the trips to the Elite Eight and the record-setting performances, there was a time when Erving Walker questioned becoming a Gator.
Kenny Boynton carried the painful memories for a year, all the while waiting for this shot.
The only thing that stood between Florida and its first College World Series title last season was South Carolina — a team that has had the Gators’ number recently.
Kytra Hunter could have backed down against the Southeastern Conference’s experienced heavyweights. She could have let the most intense environment she had faced in her young college career intimidate her.
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