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Thanksgiving weekend travel highest since 2007
By Patrick Pinak | Nov. 24, 2014Thanksgiving travelers may have to sit through traffic before seeing their families and stuffing their faces this year.
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Florida business economy ranked high
By Patrick Pinak | Nov. 24, 2014The Sunshine State means business.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Police roundup: 2 cases of aggravated battery, 1 with weapon
By Melissa Mihm | Nov. 23, 2014Gainesville Police arrested a woman after officers said she attacked a man with a set of keys because there was no beer in the refrigerator Saturday night.
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Butler North construction to create thousands of local jobs
By Chabeli Herrera | Nov. 23, 2014The future of Gainesville’s retail landscape is one step closer to completion.
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Rising Roll cafe to open in Heavener
By Alyssa Fisher | Nov. 23, 2014A new cafe boasting healthy options is adding to the hype over Heavener Hall.
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Leon County deputy ambushed, killed
By Melissa Mihm | Nov. 23, 2014A Leon County Sheriff’s Office deputy was shot and killed Saturday morning after responding to a house fire.
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Study: tropical tree life span linked to animal’s seed dispersal
By Tenley Ross | Nov. 23, 2014UF researchers have discovered that small mammals are vital to sustaining seed dispersal and the survival of tropical ecosystems.
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Gator Wesley Foundation participates in National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness week
By Rolanda Charles | Nov. 21, 2014Wendy Adams has lived 14 years of her life without a place to call home.
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Organization’s drive collects food for graduate assistants
By Alexia Fernandez | Nov. 20, 2014The small desk on the Plaza of the Americas was stacked with canned vegetables, boxes of crackers and drinks that will go toward feeding graduate assistants and their families.
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Transgender lives remembered
By Nicole Wiesenthal | Nov. 20, 2014About 40 people gathered Thursday night to memorialize the lives of 226 transgender individuals lost to hate crimes in the past year, including a 4-year-old.
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FLORIDA STRONG IN FACE OF TRAGEDY
By Chabeli Herrera | Nov. 20, 2014TALLAHASSEE — Tatiana Aponte said Strozier Library was a safe place.
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CITY COUNTY COMMISSION
‘No smoking’ signs now apply to e-cigarettes, commission rules
By Liz Clancy | Nov. 20, 2014Three men puffed smoke from their glossy vape pens outside Gainesville’s city hall in defeat.
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Don’t worry: Cold front won’t last long, experts say
By Melissa Mihm | Nov. 19, 2014Despite hard freezes and a frost lasting early this morning, Gainesville is expected to warm up by the weekend.
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Alachua County announces support for same-sex marriage
By Patrick Pinak | Nov. 19, 2014Alachua County became the first county in North Florida to publicly support marriage equality this week.
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Bomb threat evacuates GHS
By Melissa Mihm | Nov. 19, 2014For about three hours, Gainesville High School students stood in the cold and waited while officers and four canines swept campus for explosives.
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Student organization rallies against police militarization
By Bryan Faux | Nov. 19, 2014Students for a Democratic Society members held a banner on Turlington Plaza calling for UF to demilitarize Wednesday.
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City Commission to vote on e-cigarettes
By Isabella Alsina | Nov. 18, 2014Kevin Skipper smoked 30 cigarettes a day for 15 years. And then he quit.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Police: man lights up blunt, charged with child abuse
By Melissa Mihm | Nov. 18, 2014Four days after Daniel Lavaughn Jerkins was arrested for aggravated domestic assault, he was arrested again after police said he picked up his 5-year-old son from school and later smoked a marijuana blunt in front of him Tuesday evening.
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Snapchat debuts ‘Snapcash,’ users wary of security
By Patrick Pinak | Nov. 18, 2014Snapchat users can now put their money where their face is — by sending “Snapcash” to friends.
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Food drive for grad students to be held
By Ashleigh Hicks | Nov. 18, 2014This Thanksgiving, about 40 percent of UF’s 4,000 graduate assistants will earn salaries below the federal poverty line. Many will struggle to feed their families.
