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RECESS festival hopes to join Gainesville
By Jaclyn Rosen | Apr. 7, 2013Not everyone relives all the things from childhood, but UF students are determined to bring RECESS to campus next fall.
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Fake Gainesville2Go email berates 8,000 customers
By Kelcee Griffis | Apr. 4, 2013Gainesville2Go, a local food delivery service, delivered insults via email to about 8,000 Gainesville residents Thursday at about 6 a.m.
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Gym gives children special opportunities
By Andrea Rinaldi | Apr. 4, 2013Twice a week, Giovana Perazzo takes her children to a local nonprofit gym to let them exercise and be themselves.
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Canadian man dies from I-75 crash, wife in stable condition
By Chris Alcantara | Apr. 4, 2013A Canadian man died in the hospital Wednesday night following a car accident on Interstate 75 that afternoon.
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Alachua County keeps it clean Saturday
By Patricia Potestades | Apr. 4, 2013Keep Alachua County Beautiful is recruiting volunteers to participate in the Great American Cleanup on Saturday.
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Video raises questions about Lowe’s arrest
By Kathryn Varn | Apr. 3, 2013The Alachua County Sheriff’s Office released additional video footage Tuesday from the night of Mayor Craig Lowe’s driving under the influence arrest.
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GRU customers experience scam phone calls about bills
By Samantha Shavell | Apr. 3, 2013Gainesville Regional Utilities customers have reported receiving scam phone calls saying their utility bills are overdue and their services would be disconnected.
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UF students perform local food study in Porters neighborhood
By Ana Krsmanovic | Apr. 3, 2013For a while, academic research has said locally grown food promotes healthy living.
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Social media may up racism
By Katie Burns | Apr. 3, 2013A like. A share. A friend. A follower. Although social media is a tool for spreading information, a recent study questions whether Facebook is being used to spread racism.
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Man arrested after attempted murder
By Kathryn Varn | Apr. 3, 2013A fight between two men in southeast Gainesville Tuesday night ended with one man in the hospital and the other in jail.
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Alachua County Sheriff’s Office releases additional video of Mayor Craig Lowe’s DUI arrest
By Kathryn Varn | Apr. 3, 2013Authorities have released additional video from the night of Gainesville Mayor Craig Lowe’s March 21 driving under the influence arrest.
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Women work fairly, study says
By Chad Furst | Apr. 2, 2013Women may appear to out-think men in the corporate world, but men don’t appear to take notice — a fact that has some UF women speaking out.
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LifeSouth lifts one-year waiting period for tattooed donors
By Colleen Wright | Apr. 2, 2013Marissa Torres was told that getting a tattoo would keep her from donating blood for 365 days.
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Group sees 15,000 surgeries
By Kelcee Griffis | Apr. 2, 2013After about three years spaying and neutering cats and dogs, Sandi Richmond said her organization is nearing a milestone.
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FDA warns of severe reactions to black henna tattoos
By Caitlin Raddatz | Apr. 2, 2013Think twice about getting a black henna tattoo because it may not be temporary after all.
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Gainesville refuses to tap annual beer festival
By Shayna Posses | Apr. 2, 2013When Mike Campbell got the call to participate in the Greater Gator Beer Festival last year, he was ready to join the tradition.
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Grads reflect on college in poll
By Erika Oakvik | Apr. 2, 2013Four percent of American college graduates wish they had more sex while they were in college.
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Bright Futures standards to change
By Alexa Volland | Apr. 2, 2013Beginning July 1, the standards to qualify for the Bright Futures scholarships will become more strict.
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Local sports bar home to stabbing
By Kathryn Varn | Apr. 2, 2013A stabbing early Monday outside of a southwest Gainesville bar left an Alachua man in critical condition and Alachua County Sheriff’s Office deputies searching for the culprit.
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State drops Mayor Lowe’s DUI charges
By Kathryn Varn | Apr. 1, 2013In response to his March 21 driving under the influence arrest, Mayor Craig Lowe entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the state attorney’s office on Monday afternoon.
