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UF animal hospital gets mixed reactions to eagle acupuncture
By Alexa Volland | Oct. 3, 2012A bald eagle under the care of the UF Small Animal Hospital was released to a rehab center Wednesday.
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LGBT families now acknowledged by federal immigration policies
By Gloria Garcia | Oct. 3, 2012Matos, national field director of GetEQUAL, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality organization, is among the couples affected by the Department of Homeland Security’s recent announcement that would officially define same-sex couples as families for the purposes of deportation orders.
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CITY COUNTY COMMISSION
Some residents wary about plan to move fairgrounds
By Samantha Black | Oct. 3, 2012The county held a community meeting Wednesday at the fairgrounds to discuss residents’ opinions and concerns about the current plan.
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Survey shows half of US adults have mobile Internet access
By Noelia Trujillo | Oct. 2, 2012About 50 percent of U.S. adults have mobile access to the Internet through a smartphone or tablet, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism survey released Monday.
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Friends, family, police pooling resources to search for missing student
By Chris Alcantara | Oct. 2, 2012The Gainesville Police Department deployed officers on horses, aerial units and police dogs as well as officers to assist in the search for Christian Aguilar.
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Sales tax to repave county, city roads will be on Nov. 6 ballot
By Alex Catalano | Oct. 2, 2012The Alachua County Commission put a referendum on the ballot about whether to add a sales tax that would raise $550 million to repave roads.
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Grooveshark enables mobile streaming
By MICHELLE PROVENZANO< | Oct. 1, 2012Grooveshark has expanded its mobile streaming website to include all mobile devices, including tablets.
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Residents wary of Disney donations
By Kelcee Griffis | Oct. 1, 2012About a month out from Election Day, contributions from The Walt Disney Co. entities to Florida candidates and committees totaled roughly $2.5 million.
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Publix’s recalled romaine lettuce could cause nausea, fever
By Webb | Oct. 1, 2012Publix Super Markets issued a voluntary recall Thursday for 10-ounce plastic bags of Publix Hearts of Romaine after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration alerted the company that samples of the product contained Listeria monocytogenes, a known pathogen.
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Rolls ‘n Bowls closes for upgrade
By CHRIS KIRSCHNER< | Oct. 1, 2012After business faltered, owner Hiro Leung decided to shut down Rolls ‘n Bowls to transform it into Yume Ume, a Japanese-style restaurant.
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iPhone users not OK with Apple Maps
By Colleen Wright | Oct. 1, 2012Users found that the new Maps application is missing whole cities, duplicating locations and using incorrect landmark icons. Apple CEO Tim Cook publicly apologized in an open letter on the company’s website, recognizing the application’s kinks.
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Rhythm app gets a boost at Gainesville Startup Weekend
By Vonecia Carswell | Oct. 1, 2012In 54 hours, one salsa instructor’s idea went from just a dream to a funded reality.
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POLITICS
Several Sides
Sep. 30, 2012It must be difficult to be a vice presidential candidate.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Details surface about day UF student went missing
By Chris Alcantara | Sep. 30, 2012Aguilar, an 18-year-old biomedical engineering freshman from Miami, has not been seen since Sept. 20.
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Volunteers combat invasive species
By Jewel Midelis | Sep. 30, 2012The coral ardisia, known for its decorative red berries, was the focus of an invasive plant pull at Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park on Saturday.
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Annual Pride Festival to celebrate equality
By Rachel Crosby | Sep. 27, 2012The annual Gainesville Pride Festival will take place from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. At noon, a parade will start at Wild Iris Books, 802 W. University Ave. For an hour, marchers and floats will trickle down University Avenue. By 1 p.m., the parade will flood into Bo Diddley Community Plaza.
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iPhone users are dropping some serious cash for repairs
By Jordan Robbins | Sep. 27, 2012SquareTrade surveyed more than 2,000 iPhone users and then combined the cost of repairs, replacements and insurance deductibles for broken iPhones.
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Campus ministry front door shattered
By Alex Catalano | Sep. 27, 2012The majority of the United Methodist campus ministry was upstairs worshipping when the left door of the first-floor entryway had a quarter-inch hole punched into its upper right corner, leaving a web of cracks across the pane.
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Downtown bus routes will change during Gainesville Pride Parade
By Alex Catalano | Sep. 27, 2012The parade, which will start at noon, will go from Ayers Medical Building to Bo Diddley Community Plaza. Four of RTS’s transit routes will be affected. The routes will change from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
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Florida home to the most recreational fishers, study says
By Webb | Sep. 27, 2012He is among millions of other Florida fishers. Florida was ranked as the state with the most recreational fishers earlier this month in a study released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
