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Women share experiences in support of abortion rights
By Meredith Rutland | Apr. 10, 2011Eight women shared their experiences with abortion Saturday at the Civic Media Center.
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Website lets drivers check their route for traffic jams
By Meredith Rutland | Apr. 7, 2011For those who hate waiting in traffic, help may be a click away.
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Woodland Park Boys & Girls Club named best in US
By Meredith Rutland | Apr. 6, 2011The chapter was notified last Thursday that it was the first in Gainesville to win the national award from the organization.
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Bar celebrates grand opening
By Michelle Klug | Apr. 6, 2011Everything about Tall Paul’s Brew House is big.
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Man stabs friend for denting car
By Kat Bein | Apr. 5, 2011Kyle Gamble might have been in trouble for the damage to his mom’s car, but he only made it worse by breaking a knife off in his roommate’s back.
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Five Guys opens second location
By Danielle Alvarez | Apr. 5, 2011Students and residents have a new place to get their burger fix as Five Guys Burgers and Fries opened a second restaurant in Gainesville on Tuesday.
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City tests solar-powered trash cans
By Jessica Kramer | Apr. 4, 2011When walking by Midtown, something might strike you as a little odd.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Riots in Afghanistan over Dove World Outreach Center Quran burning
By C.J. Pruner | Apr. 3, 2011As he laid his Bible and handgun ever so carefully down on a music stand, Terry Jones slowly made his way to the pulpit to deliver his sermon.
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Plan board approves proposal for meal time limit
By Meredith Rutland | Mar. 31, 2011A recommendation to change the city soup kitchen meal limit to a three-hour time limit was passed unanimously by the Gainesville City Plan Board on Thursday.
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Dreary weather coming to an end
By Hannah Winston | Mar. 31, 2011If you haven’t noticed, it’s been wet lately.
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Shands employee charged with burglary, drug possession
By Kat Bein | Mar. 31, 2011An employee of Shands at UF was arrested by the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office for possession of drugs and burglary of his neighbor’s house in southwest Gainesville late Wednesday night.
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Radiation clears local iodide stock
By Natalie Teer | Mar. 30, 2011Although Gainesville is 3,000 miles away from the west coast, where radiation is expected to first make landfall in the continental U.S., local health food stores are sold out of potassium iodide.
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State Rep. Charles Chestnut sponsors gay rights legislation
By Morgan Watkins | Mar. 30, 2011When talk turns to discrimination, state Rep. Charles Chestnut IV is following Gainesville’s lead.
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Commission disagrees over jail renovation budget
By Meredith Rutland | Mar. 29, 2011The commission chair rapped his knuckles on the table to quiet the quarreling voices.
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Area unemployment rate drops
By Morgan Watkins | Mar. 28, 2011While many people are still on the job hunt in Gainesville, some of their fellow unemployed peers have landed paid positions that have contributed to a nearly one-point drop in the area’s unemployment rate in February.
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Final plan for removing animals from Paynes Prairie released
By Meredith Rutland | Mar. 28, 2011Against many citizens’ wishes, Paynes Prairie will no longer have living, breeding herds of bison and horses.
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BUSINESS
Academic Cred: Professors shouldn’t be “strictly business”
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Mar. 28, 2011Professors might want to rethink how their students perceive them. In a study published in the March issue of Learning, Media and Technology, researchers found that professors who reveal a bit of their personal lives are viewed as being more credible and more caring by students.
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Artwork aimed to encourage solutions to sustainability problems
By Rebecca Danta | Mar. 27, 2011About 600 participants attended the Eco-Artwalk, an event celebrating art focusing on earth’s natural beauty.
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Group marches on City Hall in protest of budget cuts
By Meredith Rutland | Mar. 27, 2011Protestors felt their governor wasn’t listening to them, so they broke out their megaphones on Friday.
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Activists still fight to eliminate meal limit for Gainesville homeless
By Meredith Rutland | Mar. 27, 2011This debate is about a number, a simple three digits. That number is 130, the legal amount of meals Gainesville soup kitchens can give out every day.
