The promising career of a Florida track and field athlete came to a disturbing close when he was arrested Tuesday on a charge of sexual assault, stemming from an incident just hours after competing at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
As I sat in the University Police Department's "classroom," watching a slide show jam-packed with gory images of drunk driving accidents and roads littered with mangled bodies, I felt like something wasn't right.
As he laid his Bible and handgun ever so carefully down on a music stand, Terry Jones slowly made his way to the pulpit to deliver his sermon.
A police traffic service that cut down car crashes may be coming back after a lack of funding took it off the books.
We understand that people forfeit some of their rights when they break the law. It’s just, and it’s part of the due punishment our justice system provides.
A year after the shooting of international UF graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong by University Police, UF students and administrators are still working to improve policies to prevent such incidents in the future.
When Henri Belleville became a University Police officer, he knew he’d be expected to help his fellow fallen officers. But he didn’t expect that would be in a fitness center.
When Chief Tony Jones became head of the Gainesville Police Department in 2009, one of his goals was to decrease crime in the city by 5 percent.
These days, the talk is all about prevention.
Newly released documents from the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office detail the events leading up to the murder of UF student Saleha Huuda and the arrests of Antonio Drayton and Cassandra Kimbrough.
Police arrested two Gainesville residents Wednesday in connection with the murder of 21-year-old Saleha Huuda.
Gainesville Police Department may be eliminated and put under the control of the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office. Mayor Craig Lowe and the Gainesville Commission want to keep GPD and are asking citizens to help save it.
The UF Police Department has been named as one of six institutions that will serve as a national mentor to other police organizations in responding to mental health situations.
We usually think of mentors as people whose examples we’d follow to succeed.
The UF Jewish community reassembled the large menorah in the Hillel garden in an effort to stand against hate.
The UF Police Department’s national accreditation is being re-evaluated, and students, faculty and citizens had the chance to put in their two cents Monday afternoon at a public forum held at the UPD administration building on Museum Road.
GPD caught five students skipping class during the first truancy detail of the school year Thursday.
Tonight, University Police will be on patrol making sure students on bicycles are able to see and be seen.
A Gainesville man was arrested last Wednesday in connection with a robbery Nov. 5 during which police say he struck the victim several times on the face.
UF Police Department officials are concerned about students’ ignorance of bike safety laws in a county that ranks as the second most dangerous in Florida.
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