As local high school students start summer vacation this Thursday, the Gainesville Police Department is bracing itself for a potential increase in juvenile crime.
Bo Diddley, a pioneer and patriarch of the pounding pulse of rock 'n' roll, died Monday in his Archer home of heart failure. He was 79.
The Gainesville City Commission discussed plans to increase the amount of affordable, low-cost city housing during a Monday workshop focused on the city's plans and budget for the 2009 fiscal year.
Late-night pub crawlers will have more transportation options to get home this fall besides drunken driving, bicycle-powered rickshaws and the Later Gator.
A former Shands at UF nurse convicted of killing a UF student in November 2005 is waiting to be assigned to a Florida prison.
Haile Plantation residents met with law enforcement officials Wednesday evening to discuss safety questions that arose in the aftermath of the Haile sexual assault case.
Even though economic stimulus checks are putting money back in taxpayers' pockets, the extra cash has not stopped consumer confidence in Florida from falling to a near all-time low.
Members of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity rode their bicycles down Northwest 83rd Street Monday morning in two parallel lines.
County Commissioners unanimously approved a tax Tuesday for Newberry residents that will help fund law enforcement within the city's boundaries.
After two run-ins with Gainesville law enforcement over Memorial Day weekend, former UF basketball player Joakim Noah entered a contract Tuesday evening that will allow his criminal charges to eventually be dropped.
Disappointment has become a recurring theme in the advisement office at SFCC.
A former Shands at UF nurse accused of killing a 24-year-old UF student was found guilty Friday and sentenced to life in prison without parole, according to reports from The Gainesville Sun.
City officials, press and community members honored newly elected city commissioners Thursday afternoon as they were sworn into office.
As students piled out of bars early Saturday morning, the day was just beginning for dozens of volunteers who unloaded cardboard tombstones for the annual Memorial Mile.
Former UF basketball player Joakim Noah was arrested early Sunday morning and charged with cannabis possession and an open container violation.
A sketch of the man who attacked and raped a woman jogging in Haile Plantation Wednesday was released this weekend.
Despite dreary weather, festivities for the ninth annual Lag B'Omer barbecue at the Lubavitch-Chabad Jewish Student and Community Center were lively Thursday night.The center combined the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer with the 60th anniversary of Israel's statehood, celebrating with a kosher barbecue, pony rides, face painting, crafts and live music from the Gainesville Chutzpa Band. Rabbi Berl Goldman said about 150 people attended the celebration and estimated that $300 was raised from ticket sales.Lag B'Omer is a Jewish holiday celebrating the lives of sages Rabbi Akiva, who promoted Jewish unity during the Roman occupation of Israel, and Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, who revealed the mystical secrets of the Torah, called Kabbalah.The holiday, celebrated on the 33rd day after the second day of Passover, also represents a break in the mourning period between Passover and Shavuot. It marks the end of a plague that affected Akiva's disciples.In Israel, thousands of Jews march through the streets in parades and demonstrations during the holiday.
The String Kings plan on grabbing their guitars and entertaining any Gainesville resident who decides to come out to a free Friday concert.
A murder trial began this week for a former Shands at UF nurse charged with killing a woman in November 2005 by injecting her with a powerful anesthetic.
Though Eileen Friedman has multiple sclerosis, she hasn't let her illness slow her down.
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