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RTS survey to ask what riders want changed
By Matt Tripp | Apr. 6, 2009A new survey will allow Gainesville bus riders to make suggestions to the Regional Transit System.
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Man arrested on three charges of child pornography
By KATIE EMMETS | Apr. 5, 2009A former Gainesville resident will be charged with video voyeurism this week after admitting to taking pictures of a woman in a Home Depot restroom in February.
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Local resident expresses her struggles through poetry
By JACQUELYNE SMITH | Apr. 5, 2009Scrawled on a ripped piece of paper on Marcee Lee Winthrop's refrigerator are the words, "When I want to cry, I will laugh instead."
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Exhibit allows patrons to experience art blindfolded
By EMILY FUGGETTA | Apr. 5, 2009Most museums warn patrons to keep their hands off the art, but at Saturday's MindSight exhibit, people were encouraged to do the opposite.
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Organization collects signatures for medical marijuana
By HUNTER SIZEMORE | Apr. 5, 2009With the hope of putting an initiative for medical marijuana on Florida's 2010 ballot, UF's chapter of People United for Medical Marijuana is collecting signatures for its campaign.
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Man's DNA leads to rape charge
By KATIE EMMETS | Apr. 5, 2009A Gainesville man was charged Thursday with the rape and murder of a Texas woman after spending two years in a Florida prison on an unrelated felony charge.
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Lt. Dahlem remembered at vigil
By KATIE EMMETS | Apr. 2, 2009When he stands at the location where Gainesville Police Lt. Corey Dahlem was hit by a drunken driver two years ago today, Capt. Bart Knowles doesn't think about Dahlem's death.
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Office saves old phones to buy calling cards for troops
By CAROLYN TILLO | Apr. 2, 2009For once, the Alachua County Tax Collector's Office does not want money.
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City Commission passed ordinance to regulate bike cabs
By EMILY FUGGETTA | Apr. 2, 2009The Gainesville City Commission unanimously passed an ordinance to regulate the bicycle cabs and rickshaws that give rides for tips and donations during game days.
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Man arrested for possession, hitting officer
By KATIE EMMETS | Apr. 2, 2009A Gainesville man was arrested early Wednesday morning in connection with hitting an officer and swallowing crack cocaine.
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Computer worm may strike for students with PCs
By HUNTER SIZEMORE | Apr. 1, 2009Like the Y2K bug, the projected havoc the Conflicker computer worm threatened to wreak on April 1 seems to have been bloated, but the threat remains.
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GPD to set up DUI checkpoint tonight at 23rd Terr.
By KATIE EMMETS | Apr. 1, 2009The Gainesville Police Department will look for drunken drivers at a DUI checkpoint tonight at 4000 S.W. 23rd Terrace.
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Gainesville residents don't go nuts over Salmonella scare
By EMILY FUGGETTA | Apr. 1, 2009Some people around the country might be up in arms over the latest salmonella scare, but it turns out some Gainesville residents aren't nuts about pistachios anyway.
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Man arrested for stealing, carrying brass knuckles
By KATIE EMMETS | Apr. 1, 2009Man arrested after beer stolen early Wed.
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UPD charges Shands employee with flashing women
By THOMAS STEWART | Apr. 1, 2009The University Police Department is filing a sworn complaint against Gainesville resident Richard White, 41, for reportedly exposing his genitals to at least one woman outside the McKnight Brain Institute on Monday night.
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Controversial ordinance makes bar crackdown official
By HUNTER SIZEMORE | Mar. 31, 2009Bars will face stiffer penalties for underage drinking violations starting today, as a contested Gainesville ordinance takes effect.
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Students make April Fools' Day plans
By HUNTER SIZEMORE | Mar. 31, 2009America celebrates the gullible today with April Fools' Day, and some students hope the holiday, that brings with it a tradition of pranks and practical jokes, will play in their favor.
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Green fee bill reaches state legislature
By THOMAS STEWART | Mar. 31, 2009Seventy-eight percent of UF students said they wanted it in a spring 2007 referendum and now it's inching closer toward reality.
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Local musician raises money to help Guinean orphans
By EMILY FUGGETTA | Mar. 31, 2009Like a modern Atlas, Lansana Camara holds up the world for 25 severely disabled orphans in Conakry, Guinea.
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Florida Blue Key visits Governor's Mansion
By TYLER RUTSTEIN | Mar. 31, 2009For the first time in Florida Blue Key's 86-year history, Gov. Charlie Crist opened up the Governor's Mansion in Tallahassee for Florida Blue KeyÕs Legislative Day 2009.
