Club owner, dancer arrested for nudity violation
By KATIE EMMETS | Nov. 19, 2008The owner of downtown's Club Decadence and one of the club's dancers were arrested Tuesday when Gainesville Police saw too much during a regular bar check.
The owner of downtown's Club Decadence and one of the club's dancers were arrested Tuesday when Gainesville Police saw too much during a regular bar check.
A failing housing market and reduced tax revenue may force the county to eliminate or scale back some projects planned for the coming years.
In a room stuffed with city and county officials, middle-school students and Alachua County residents, three re-elected county commissioners were sworn in to serve for another term.
Fog may have made it difficult for the pilot of a plane that crashed near the Gainesville Regional Airport to see the landing lights. The Nov. 7 plane crash killed three Key West residents.
UF Students in Free Enterprise is helping feed local families again this Thanksgiving with its second annual Chomp Out Hunger canned food drive competition.
A freeze watch for Gainesville will be in effect from tonight until Wednesday morning as temperatures are expected to drop to a record-breaking 27 degrees.
With some gun owners concerned that gun laws will become stricter with Barack Obama in the White House, local gun stores may be profiting off the election results.
County staff will have to deal with concerns about security, funding and maintenance before following through with plans for a bicycle trail that would connect UF with Haile Plantation.
Before the smoke from the 2008 presidential election has even begun to clear, whispers about potential candidates in 2012 have already surfaced.
According to police, holiday burglaries have come early this year.
Although Tony James of Gainesville has been out on the streets for about a week, he said it lifts his spirit to know that others are trying to help.
Huddled under rainbow-colored umbrellas, Amendment 2 protestors met in the drizzling rain Saturday afternoon with a message: equal rights for everyone.
A weeklong search for a Gainesville man ended in tragedy in the parking lot of the Jacksonville International Airport Friday morning.
Florida's attempts to balance its budget could temporarily shut down 19 state parks.
Participants in Sunday's GatorWalk 2008, an annual 5K walk-run benefiting March of Dimes, may have more drive in their strides now that Florida has been ranked among U.S. states with the highest rates of premature births.
At a time when the economy is preventing people from getting jobs, Santa Fe College is inviting entrepreneurs to start their businesses at a new downtown center.
More native plants may flourish in the water flowing through Gainesville's Duck Pond neighborhood in the next year.
UF is going blue.
Internal investigations by the Gainesville Police, announced Thursday, have shown that two former officers were having sex with prostitutes while on duty.
After living on the streets for two years without a home or family, Ariel Gruman knows that a few helping hands can go a long way.