UF chemistry department gives kids a slimy Halloween
By BENJAMIN MARKUS | Nov. 1, 2009Slime took center stage at the Oaks Mall on Halloween as the UF Department of Chemistry held its fourth annual Molecular Mania event on Saturday morning.
Slime took center stage at the Oaks Mall on Halloween as the UF Department of Chemistry held its fourth annual Molecular Mania event on Saturday morning.
Four men visiting Gainesville for The Fest 8 were arrested after police say they beat an officer who was trying to arrest a man at a house party early Sunday morning.
A UF nuclear engineering professor and his wife have been indicted by a federal grand jury and arrested on charges related to $3.7 million in fraudulent grant proposals submitted to NASA, the U.S. Air Force and the Navy.
Members of the Pre-dental ASDA served dinner to the homeless and gave a presentation on good oral hygiene at the St. Francis House.
Stacy Hutton is going to be an angel for Halloween - again.
35 protesters marched Wednesday in downtown Gainesville to protest the proposed $14 billion nuclear power plant about 50 miles from Gainesville in Levy County.
Gainesville is feeding its appetite for Japanese cuisine with the opening of another sushi restaurant. Sake Café opened on Oct. 22 on Archer Road.
Alexis Oliver is the kind of person who looks at a bottle cap and thinks of jewelry.
Studying criminal justice didn't do much to keep one former UF student out of trouble.
For the first time in nearly 30 years, Gainesville's St. Francis House will have to slash the number of meals it serves on Thanksgiving and Christmas from more than 400 to 130 due to a city rule.
An urban and regional planning class at UF is working with the Gainesville Police Department to make burglary more difficult through environmental changes like lighting and shrubbery.
The county fair added an Oktoberfest celebration and more rides in a makeover for this season.
Three people, including two from Alachua, died in a plane crash near Zephyrhills Friday after reporting an emergency mid-air.
A man on foot was robbed at gunpoint at about 3 a.m. Friday morning on the field near Norman Hall.
The Friends of the Library book sale benefiting local libraries began Saturday morning and is expected to draw 6,000 people by Wednesday.
East met West at Gainesville's Heart of Florida Asian Festival on Sunday.
Trevilynn Blakeslee outlasted 22 other players to win Poker For Life's October Main Event Tournament and a $500 Visa gift card Sunday, but she didn't enter the charity Texas Hold'em tournament for the prize money.
Speakers share thoughts on bonding Islam and other faiths at art auction that raised $10,000 for single-mother families of all religions.
A UF student group took part in a summit on alternative energy in Orlando this weekend.