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You’ve got mail on Saturdays
By Michelle Jackson | Apr. 15, 2013The U.S. Postal Service’s latest plan to regain financial stability by cutting Saturday deliveries has been blocked by Congress.
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Braddy or Lowe? Today is the mayoral runoff election
By Billy Kennedy | Apr. 15, 2013Voting for the Gainesville mayoral runoff election is today. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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Florida House fights for payback for revenge-porn victims
By Alex Harris | Apr. 15, 2013Revenge porn may soon become illegal if a Florida bill makes its way through the House of Representatives.
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Q&A with the 2013 City of Gainesville Mayoral Candidates
By Kelcee Griffis | Apr. 15, 2013The Gainesville mayoral runoff election between former District 2 City Commissioner Ed Braddy and incumbent Mayor Craig Lowe is Tuesday. The Alligator interviewed both candidates about issues affecting UF and Santa Fe College students.
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Study finds sobering information about arsenic in beer
By Hanna Marcus | Apr. 14, 2013Researchers in Germany have recently reported finding traces of arsenic in samples of beer, saying that some levels found were more than twice what is allowed in drinking water.
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Pets of ‘Raccoon Man’ euthanized on Friday
By Kelcee Griffis | Apr. 14, 2013Wayne Wheeler stood inside his mostly empty trailer in Westgate Mobile Manor Park.
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New strain of stomach virus spreading across the city
By Carla Vianna | Apr. 11, 2013A new strain of the norovirus stomach bug may have buzzed its way to Gainesville.
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Cade Museum invention contest heats up
By Beatrice Dupuy | Apr. 11, 2013Mark-Jason White often spends about six hours a week calculating 101 Downtown’s liquor inventory.
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New program tracks textbook reading
By Victoria Cappelli | Apr. 11, 2013CourseSmart, a company owned by five publishers including Pearson and McGraw-Hill, is testing technology that allows professors to monitor when students read their digital textbooks, how often they read them and for how long.
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Local Internet cafes out of luck
By Kelcee Griffis | Apr. 11, 2013Gov. Rick Scott signed a law Wednesday that bans Internet cafes across the state, but local officials say the impacts on Gainesville are uncertain.
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Radical Press Coffee Collective opens
By Mary Velasquez | Apr. 11, 2013Radical Press Coffee Collective will host its grand opening from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. tonight.
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Nonprofit to host second Hogtown Creek cleanup
By Jovahn Huertas | Apr. 11, 2013A local nonprofit asks residents to help clean up Gainesville’s best-known creek this weekend.
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The best Gainesville thrift store discoveries
By Karilla Dyer | Apr. 11, 2013If you are a Gainesville resident looking to pop some tags with only twenty dollars in your pocket, then you will find no shortage of thrift store options available to you.
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Bill Nelson signs petition against Defense of Marriage Act
By Hanna Marcus | Apr. 11, 2013Another name has been added to the list of senators who signed a petition asking the Supreme Court to declare the law that prohibits gay marriage unconstitutional.
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Gainesville Fine Arts Association celebrates 90th anniversary
By Carina Seagrave | Apr. 11, 2013Local artists will celebrate the Gainesville Fine Arts Association’s 90th anniversary with a monthlong art exhibition, featuring paintings of multiple historical locations around the city.
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Data shows newspapers not dead yet, Foley weighs in
By Shayna Posses | Apr. 10, 2013You’re not the only one reading the newspaper, according to data compiled by the Newspaper Association of America.
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RTS buses involved in three accidents
By Kathryn Varn | Apr. 10, 2013A Wednesday morning crash left one man in the hospital with serious injuries after he rear-ended a Regional Transit System bus on Northwest 39th Avenue.
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Gainesville2Go takes break after sales spike due to email scandal
By Kelcee Griffis | Apr. 10, 2013A bogus email containing profanity that went out last week to about 8,000 patrons of local food delivery service Gainesville2Go hasn’t cursed the company’s business.
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Both mayoral candidates debate conference center, biomass plant
By Billy Kennedy | Apr. 9, 2013In the final debate before the April 16 mayoral runoff election, candidates Ed Braddy and Mayor Craig Lowe discussed a proposed downtown conference center, transportation and the biomass plant Tuesday night.
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Gas leak leads to steak house evacuation on Archer Road
By Alexa Volland | Apr. 9, 2013A southwest Gainesville steak house had to evacuate about 80 people Tuesday afternoon after a gasoline leak occurred at a neighboring construction site.
