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Funky, unique businesses in Gainesville part 2

By Charlene Hewitt | Apr. 8, 2013

Gainesville's full of one of a kind places. Here's part 2 of local quirky businesses.

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Startups thriving at Innovation Hub

By Jenna Hostetler | Sep. 11, 2012

Innovation Hub director Jane Muir credits the center’s early success to entrepreneurs, employees and students who are investing their talents in Gainesville. She said UF and Santa Fe College students are taking full advantage of the 48,000-square-foot business incubator and its resources.

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Startups thriving at Innovation Hub

By Jenna Hostetler | Sep. 11, 2012

Innovation Hub director Jane Muir credits the center’s early success to entrepreneurs, employees and students who are investing their talents in Gainesville. She said UF and Santa Fe College students are taking full advantage of the 48,000-square-foot business incubator and its resources.

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EnCoSpace offers rentable office space for new businesses

By Ayana Stewart | Sep. 9, 2012

EnCoSpace, located on East University Avenue, provides rentable office space for Gainesville startups. Customers have the option to work in an open area with other people or in private office spaces.

Mercedes Machado, a first-year mental health counseling graduate student, drove her car halfway into her neighbor’s condominium, Kensington South Condos apartment No. 801.

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UF student crashes car into apartment building

By Benjamin S. Brasch | Aug. 29, 2012

A week into the semester, a UF graduate student and university employee has already hit the wall.

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Police searching for apartment complex shooter

By Chris Alcantara | July 23, 2012

Gainesville Police are investigating a shooting that occurred Monday afternoon at an apartment complex near Archer Road.

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Deputy Dilemma: Wrongful police shooting deserves serious review

July 16, 2012

For 26-year-old Andrew Lee Scott of Lake County, Fla., that decision would lead to his death.

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Gainesville man shot dead after he threatened police with knife

By Chris Alcantara | June 24, 2012

At around 2:45 p.m., Ghulam Yahya Mujtaba, 62, threatened to stab another man with a knife in a laundry room at an apartment complex at 935 SW Ninth St., according to police.

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Apartment fire claims lives of two dogs

By Michael Scott Davidson | June 11, 2012

The 50-year-old walked out of his door at the Cottages on Market Street expecting to find roof damage and a rogue oak branch. Instead, he saw his neighbor’s kitchen window engulfed in flames.

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Satchel’s Pizza will reopen June 14

By Michael Scott Davidson | June 4, 2012

A refurbished Satchel’s Pizza will open June 14 after a fire in February closed the landmark pizzeria for three months.

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Attempted suicide by gasoline leads to apartment explosion

By Francesco Ferro | June 4, 2012

A suicide attempt at an apartment complex caused an explosion that shook the building early Monday morning.

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Man arrested, found hiding in apartment closet

By Chris Alcantara | May 30, 2012

A late-night apartment visit Monday night landed one UF staff member in jail.

The Bartram apartments, located at 2337 SW Archer Road, will reopen in the fall after being closed for a year for repairs.

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Bartram apartments to reopen this fall after closing for repairs

By Barbara Bermudez | Apr. 24, 2012

The Bartram apartments, located at 2337 SW Archer Road, notified its residents in March 2011 that it would close indefinitely because the complex had to undergo repairs.

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We need to honor contracts to progress

By Dyllan Furness | Apr. 23, 2012

Our daily, scheduled lives are strung together by a series of contracts between friends, strangers and ourselves — contracts that we seem hesitant to honor.

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