County targets drivers who illegally pass school buses
By MELINDA CARSTENSEN | Oct. 19, 2009Alachua County law enforcement agencies will be on the lookout this week for drivers who illegally pass school buses.
Alachua County law enforcement agencies will be on the lookout this week for drivers who illegally pass school buses.
After more than a decade and a half of bringing progressive materials and speakers to locals, the Civic Media Center celebrated its Sweet 16 Friday at the Sweetwater Branch Inn downtown.
The human eye can see millions of colors, but on University Avenue Friday afternoon, the only two that seemed to matter were orange and blue.
Cooler temperatures will likely reach Gainesville in time for Homecoming events.
Annual Light the Night walk brings out a record crowd to raise money for cancer.
Local grocery stores are running out of canned pumpkin.
Women at a local maternity shelter are making holiday accessories and postcards to pay for their expenses.
Rock and bluegrass acts play at Common Grounds to raise money for Invisible Children.
Two Sister Hazel musicians performed an acoustic set to benefit an addiction recovery center.
Rosemary Piazza, 70, lost her house because of medical bills. Drollene Brown, also 70, was denied health care coverage because of a pre-existing condition. Lee Auerbach said for the first time in almost 65 years, she just felt helpless.
The Senate Finance Committee passed its version of health care legislation without a public option Tuesday.
Gabriel Tyner can hardly believe there is a gang problem in Gainesville. After all, this is Tim Tebow's town; home of the Gators, not the Bloods and Crips.
A local man ran his father's Chevy Silverado 1500 into the back of an RTS bus on Southwest 20th Avenue at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Rivals in football, teammates in education.
Police said a UF student was arrested Monday evening for slapping a sunbathing woman on the butt at the University Commons pool.
Chicken wings and babies don't mix - unless it's for the Rattle Battle Wing Bowl, a chicken-wing-eating contest to raise money for the March of Dimes' March for Babies.
The Pledge of Allegiance, a required and generally unquestioned routine in Florida schools, went under scrutiny earlier this month when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider a case challenging the Florida law.
For the past few months, the H1N1 virus has waged a ruthless campaign on the human anatomy, laying siege to both the healthy and the weak.
Close-Knit Gators knit hats for Shands Children's Hospital
Miniature masters of genius and imagination, along with their parents, come together Tuesdays and Thursdays at Do Art studio with one goal - to end child abuse with the Child Advocacy Center's Jay's Hands project.