As protests rage across the country following Donald Trump’s election, his opponents in Gainesville are organizing acts of resistance this week — and hoping to influence local politicians to fight the president-elect’s future policies.
Gainesville Police is asking residents to call with information after reports circulated on social media of a woman luring others to be sexually assaulted.
The crowd grew quickly outside Gainesville’s City Hall on Thursday evening. Just days removed from the presidential election, hundreds of anti-Donald Trump supporters listened on as students, faculty members and community leaders painted an apocalyptic portrait of the billionaire’s impending presidency.
Victor Lopez’s time in Afghanistan still follows him to class.
Aazaar Abdul-Rahim doesn’t remember exactly how many interceptions Jalen Tabor had during his freshman year.
UF professor Sean Trainor walked into his classroom Wednesday morning dressed in black.
While the nation’s fate hung in the balance Tuesday night, Sara Riehm went soundly to sleep, knowing all would be fine in the morning.
After a year-and-a-half-long battle, Donald Trump will become the next president of the United States.
While the presidential race was still unclear early Wednesday, Floridians soundly said yes to medical marijuana and Republican candidates.
The bitter, nasty saga that became the 2016 election is over. Donald Trump is our next president.
The founders of a recently closed-down coffee shop near campus hope to muster up $20,000 in donations to reopen elsewhere.
A Gainesville man crashed his car into an elementary school’s fence and ran away Tuesday morning, leaving behind 28.1 grams of marijuana, Gainesville Police said.
On Election Day in Gainesville, as droves of voters cast their ballots in national and local races, Alex Visaggio, a UF construction management junior, hung a Donald Trump campaign sign over the front door of his house.
The lock clicked into place on the tall metal gate, and the room erupted with excited and restless howls.
A day before Election Day, UF students took a stand against negative stereotypes about the Hispanic community made by politicians and the media.
As presidential election votes pour in tonight, Midtown patrons will knock back patriotic shots.
It was a package of information that arrived in his mailbox Saturday that got Daniel Smith out of bed at 4 a.m., just a few hours after he went to sleep.
This election has been anything but typical. It’s an election that has spawned questions that breach the core of the American spirit. Who are we as a nation? What direction is our nation headed toward? To whom will we offer our hands in aid, and against whom will we raise our arms in opposition? A simple answer to any of these questions is insufficient. These questions are as complex as the society that asks them. We need to have the courage to embrace that complexity — no matter how strange, uncomfortable or morally questionable. In this election cycle, there is only one candidate with the courage to answer these questions with the respect, thoughtfulness and honesty they deserve. That candidate is Hillary Clinton.
Through a recent partnership between the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention and the City of Gainesville, a group of about 30 elementary-school students were selected to participate in a hands-on science lab program.
As of Sunday, Alachua County residents are restricted to watering their lawns once a week.
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