Author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings won a Pulitzer Prize before her death in 1953, and now, 63 years later, a rose is registered under her name. Two professors at Florida Southern College – literature professor Keith Huneycutt and rose expert Malcolm Manners – collaborated to make Rawlings’ dream a reality.
A Gainesville man currently faces charges of first-degree child sexual abuse after Gainesville Police, U.S. Marshals and District of Columbia Police worked together to arrest him a week ago.
Richard Rowell’s son, Nolan, had to undergo heart surgery at just three-weeks-old. Doctors diagnosed Nolan with a heart defect while he was still in utero. Consequently, Rowell searched for a support group on Facebook and found Broken Hearts of Florida.
Vincent van Gogh may have enjoyed Kanapaha Botanical Gardens’ observance of the starry night.
On Sunday, the museum, located at 3215 Hull Road, unveiled the Ranching and Wrangling theme, which will run through June 30. The theme is intended to educate visitors on the importance of studying butterflies from different regions.
The St. Francis Pet Care clinic opened its doors in 2007. Its first patient, Baby Girl, belonged to a homeless woman in the community.
This year, the Legislature gave $2.6 million, in addition to the $1 million given to the Department of Animal Sciences last year, for the unit’s expansion, said Geoffrey Dahl, the chair of the Department of Animal Sciences.
“I wish for a world with no hate,” reads Anjali Lloyd’s poem sub- mission. “A world where people do not use their differences as bait.” Lloyd is one of 32 young poetry winners who will read their poems about peace to an audience of roughly 150 people this weekend at the Peace Poetry Reading and Reception event.
Gainesville Police arrested a Gainesville man Tuesday after they said he entered a home — despite the owner’s injunction against him — and hid in a closet, where he was later found with a lit cigarette.
Casual strollers and serious cyclists now have a safe trail to take from Bo Diddley Plaza in downtown Gainesville all the way through to I-75 on Archer Road.
Local authorities said credit card fraud is a consistent problem each year.
College students seeking to empty or furnish their apartments often visit thrift stores at the start of a new semester. This summer, students can donate their gently used furniture or clothes, find deals and help local charities at nonprofit thrift stores around town.
On April 30, at least one unidentified person marked the memorial with a white swastika within an existing red heart. A pair of white SS bolts were sprayed next to the heart.
Police arrested Simone Westbrook, a guard on Florida’s women’s basketball team, early Saturday morning.
A nonprofit thrift store will host two new events to promote sustainability throughout the weekend.
Members of the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team traveled to Fredericktown, Missouri, and placed first in a four-day competition over the weekend.
You can lead Sherman to water, but you can’t make him drink.
This is it, readers. Spring 2016: We did it — we did the thing. Many of you may still feel weary of the flurry of finals and papers ahead.
Jenna Horner prefers dead flowers.
It was one vision in between endless nightmares that inspired a former United States Marine Corps sergeant.
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