Paper hearts and string lights festooned the North Central Florida YMCA’s basketball gym Friday evening for the organization’s Second Chance Valentine’s Day Prom.
Protestors lined up along an Archer sidewalk Friday night, chanting phrases like, “Wendy’s, shame on you. Farm workers deserve rights, too.”
A call comes in over the hotline. The subject is a woman working at a credit union. The caller provides details, directions and payment.
A local organization is collecting books and money to help stock library shelves in Africa.
Electronic cigarettes are trending in Gainesville.
GatorSavers met its goal of certifying 600 students in CPR with Automatic External Defibrillator training but failed to break its record of participants at this Saturday’s third annual event.
Gainesville Police arrested a Delray Beach man at a Saturday traffic stop who later told them he was hiding marijuana “behind his nuts.”
Gators craving opossum, elk and armadillo meat got their fix Saturday night at this year’s Beast Feast.
Freshman Buddy Reed has a motto: Never stop running.
Alex Wicks, an Olympic Heights Community High School senior, has his heart set on attending UF. But as excited as he is for his possible acceptance, he’s not going to let UF’s choice to release admissions decisions on Valentine’s Day ruin his romantic day.
Love is in the air for Gainesville businesses.
Gainesville Regional Utilities is encouraging customers to give an electrifying gift in honor of Valentine’s Day.
This weekend more than 15 actresses will give staged monologues all about one topic: their vaginas.
UF’s Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts was ranked 20th overall in a national ranking of college campus theaters.
Gainesville Police arrested a local man Tuesday after police reported he was carrying a gun and 100 rounds of ammunition in his backpack with no permit.
If you thought the SEC rivalry ended with football, think again.
Sen. Bill Nelson and former Gov. Charlie Crist spoke at UF this week after the state denied use of the Reitz Union as an early voting site.
A second suspect prosecutors say is responsible for the 2012 murder of a 78-year-old disabled Gainesville man could face the death penalty in a trial that started this week.
Gainesville’s own environmentally focused film-and-arts festival is back for its fifth year.
In 2009, 15-year-old Claire Dunlap went into cardiac arrest while playing varsity softball for her high school. If it hadn’t been for the CPR equipment on site, the incident could have killed her.
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