Born into shackles and later elected Gainesville’s mayor, Josiah T. Walls was celebrated Sunday as Alachua County renamed a building in his honor.
An F.W. Buchholz High School senior was selected this month to march in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl game in January.
Richard Schultz, 59, spent $19,000 perfecting a 1973 UF-themed Volkswagen VW Westfalia bus.
In the winter of 1980, Amber Waters went to her first concert to see The Eagles and Jimmy Buffett play at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
To protest a 515-mile natural-gas pipeline set to cut through Florida, a St. Petersburg woman will dance across the state, shimmying through Alachua County on her way southbound.
Against the light-green walls of a room on the fourth floor of UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital, a 9-year-old boy clenched his fist as a nurse hooked an IV into his arm Tuesday.
A UF Health Shands Hospital nurse sexually battered a patient earlier this year, University Police said.
Florida’s voter registration deadline has been extended to Tuesday.
With no protesters in sight, thousands of eager voters snaked their way through a parking lot before packing into a raucous Ocala stadium Wednesday to hear Donald Trump speak.
A Tampa, Florida, man died Wednesday after his semi-truck rolled over multiple times, leaking nearly 8,000 gallons of jet fuel during the accident, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
A Gainesville man was arrested Tuesday after putting a woman’s right foot in his mouth, Gainesville Police said.
On Monday, a UF student was arrested after a man stole about $1,600 in merchandise from the UF Bookstore, University Police said.
An employee at the Wendy’s on Archer Road called police after protesters entered the restaurant in an attempt to deliver a letter.
Past a table of candles, about 200 attendees gathered Tuesday evening in preparation for a day of fasting and atonement.
A Florida man demanded a local MetroPCS store fix his phone Monday — using a shotgun as a bargaining chip, Gainesville Police said.
Following a report of a sexual assault in the Duckpond neighborhood Sunday morning, Gainesville Police has increased patrols in search of the suspect.
Following a report of a sexual assault in the Duckpond neighborhood Saturday morning, Gainesville Police has increased patrols in search of a suspect.
Aqueela Khuddus refused to say Donald Trump’s name Monday night, insisting she wanted to keep her mouth clean.
At a meeting to decide the “Old Joe” Confederate statue’s future Monday night, one man pledged to raise $10,000 to keep the downtown statue where it is.
A group is back in Gainesville to protest against Wendy’s tomatoes.
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