Just a few years back, Clifton Hicks was an M1 Abrams tank operator almost 7,000 miles away in Iraq. As an active Army squad member, he'd seen buildings packed with families crumbled and burned. Watched women and children bleed and die. Killed insurgents and civilians alike.
A federal investigation into the 2006 crash of a private plane that killed three people in Gainesville has determined the cause of the crash to be inconclusive.
Fists flew at a peace protest Tuesday when two passers-by grabbed at signs and grappled with an anti-war demonstrator at West University Avenue and 13th Street.
A UF student died early Tuesday evening after she was hit by a car while riding her bike.
Tax breaks to Florida homeowners might mean a new fire assessment fee for Gainesville property owners.
Decked in their drag-queen best, local amateurs and professionals shook their stuff Monday night for a crowd of about 100 in honor of Pride Awareness Month.
"You need to be fired."
Bursts of heavy rain may have slowed the people flooding into downtown Gainesville for the SFCC Spring Arts Festival Saturday and Sunday, but it didn't stop them.
Combining rape prevention lessons with free tuxedo rental and manicures, the Alachua County Victim Services and Rape Crisis Center spent last week bringing the "Respect Your Date Contest" to local high schools.
A briefcase labeled with an explosive nickname sent part of Florida State University's campus into emergency mode Thursday afternoon, but FSU officials said the scare proved to be nothing more than a good test of its emergency resources.
The only time Gainesville Police Lt. Corey Dahlem was ever reprimanded at work was when the life-long Seminoles fan got caught on the job watching a Gators sports game with his colleagues.
After acknowledging imperfections with the proposed site for the city's one-stop homeless center, commissioners voted Thursday not to rule it out but to evaluate other locations as well.
Sally Dahlem doesn't have to cry when she talks about her husband anymore.
Citizens of Southwest Gainesville had few complaints Wednesday night at the third of four district City Commission meetings.
A man who was arrested Tuesday at the Orlando International Airport on charges that he stowed the components of a pipe bomb in his luggage told investigators he had purchased the pieces in Gainesville, according to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday.
Einstein's Notes is facing a lawsuit for allegedly selling notes from a UF professor's lectures without permission.
Gainesville residents and local police officers discussed the need to educate motorists about the rights of bicyclists and pedestrians on the road at a public forum Tuesday night.
Though the next election for the position of Alachua County sheriff is still months away, the candidate challenging current Sheriff Sadie Darnell is starting his campaign sooner rather than later.
Norman Tripp, chairman of Florida Atlantic University's Board of Trustees and a South Florida lawyer, was appointed to Florida's Board of Governors, the State University System's highest governing body, on Tuesday.
It's the perfect time of year to plant peppers, tomatoes, zucchini and squash, but Gainesville residents are not taking full advantage of their gardening opportunities, according to Susan Vince, treasurer of the UF Organic Garden Cooperative.
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