The No. 8 Florida lacrosse team continued its romp through Big East play on Sunday as it took down Villanova 18-8 on the road to earn its fourth straight victory.
I was reminded of a scene from the 2007 crime-drama “American Gangster” last week when I heard about the drama between LeBron James and Nick Saban.
Right before senior Rachel Slocum stepped up to the mat for her floor routine during the NCAA Regionals on Saturday, teammate Alex McMurtry ran up to her, grabbed her hands and touched her forehead to Slocum’s. Although it only lasted three seconds, the private moment had a clear effect on Slocum, who went on to claim her first floor title as a Gator.
A Gainesville man was arrested Thursday and faces a charge of attempted murder after he fired at a stopped car on March 31, Gainesville Police said.
Florida defensive lineman Keivonnis Davis’ status with UF’s football team remains unclear after he violated three parts of his pre-trial intervention agreement for his alleged involvement in a 2017 credit card scandal.
A Gainesville man was arrested for breaking into a house and stealing $5,000 worth of items, including a gun, Gainesville Police said.
Gainesville is now the first city in North Florida to ban conversion therapy for minors.
A Gainesville woman woke a man sleeping in his car and then cut and robbed him early Thursday, Gainesville Police said.
Rani Mahmoudi’s father came to Jacksonville, Florida, not knowing a word of English in the 1970s to escape persecution from the Syrian government.
Copper Monkey is returning to Gainesville nearly a year after it was sold on eBay.
Jason Haeseler, a candidate for the Florida Representative seat in District 21, said Florida has the lowest funding for mental health resources of all states. This is mostly true. The National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors Research Institute says Florida is 51 out of 52 in the U.S., ahead of Puerto Rico. PolitiFact reported that the data used to make the ranking is based on money spent by Department of Children and Families’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Office and doesn’t include funding from other sources, like Medicaid.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School senior Taryn Hibshman would’ve been in the Holocaust study class that Nikolas Cruz shot into on Valentine’s Day had she not left school early that day.
The UF Student Government Senate Judiciary Committee supported an initiative Sunday to increase funding for the Disability Resource Center.
Sara Lind wants to help foster children because her father lived in a foster home when he was a baby.
UF College of Medicine’s department of orthopedics and rehabilitation redesigned a program to lower costs of joint replacement surgery like knee and hip replacement surgeries.
At first, scientists did not know what was killing off what is said to be the rarest tree species in North America — the Torreya taxifolia.
A UF student received a research grant from the Weed Science Society of America for her work with invasive species.
A Gainesville nonprofit founded in 2009, held a grand opening and open house of its center Saturday.
Ah, yes. The March and April wave of work has crashed upon our shores once again. We’re entering that part of the semester when suddenly we have so many assignments due, some of them must be in classes we’re not even taking. But never fear.
Some may think toilets have a “magic flush.” One does their business, flushes the toilet and the wastewater just disappears. That’s how much people would like to think about it because most wouldn’t want to know more about what happens to “poop water” once it’s flushed.
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