Students will have a chance to talk poverty and civil rights with best-selling author Cornel West and talk-show host Tavis Smiley tonight at the Bob Graham Center for Public Service in Pugh Hall.
An elderly woman was seriously injured in a residential fire Thursday night.
Florida sophomore defensive tackle Leon Orr was served with a notice to appear on two marijuana-related charges during the first week of Spring semester, according to a University Police Department report.
Toccara Carter had just settled in to watch TV on Tuesday night when she heard a frantic knock on the door. She didn't know who the person was and still doesn't.
Mark Venzke is one of eight people running for the at-large 1 seat on the Gainesville City Commission. Elections are Jan. 31.
The majority of the Gainesville City Commission has chosen to financially support the opponent of a current commissioner's mentee.
Two Jacksonville women and a teenager were arrested after stealing $395 in clothes from The Oaks Mall on Tuesday.
Adam Brewer, 31, is the owner and founder of Adam's Rib Co., 2111 NW 13th St.
Around noon Wednesday, PIPA co-sponsor and Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio wrote on Facebook and Twitter that he is dropping his support for the bill.
City commission candidates spoke about local issues Wednesday night in one of their last public forums before early voting starts.
The victim of a brutal home-invasion robbery in northern Gainesville died Wednesday afternoon.
An estimated 7,000 websites, according to Politico, will black out their pages in protest of the U.S. House of Representatives' Stop Online Piracy Act and the U.S. Senate's Protect IP Act.
Armando Grundy is one of three candidates running for Gainesville City Commission, District 1.
The Food and Drug Administration announced Jan. 9 it will test imported oranges for traces of a fungicide.
Police arrested a Gainesville man on suspicion of setting his apartment on fire after a blaze started Tuesday night.
The Alachua County Commission has not reached a conclusion about whether to give preference to local businesses when it considers a bid for construction or other county projects.
Yvonne Hinson-Rawls, 64, is one of three candidates for the District 1 seat of the Gainesville City Commission.
Ray Washington, 56, is one of three people running for the District 1 seat on the Gainesville City Commission.
About 2,000 people attended the annual King Celebration Commemorative March.
Here is how the UPD's crime log breaks down for the first week of the semester.
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