About 100 blankets collected for Gainesville?s homeless
By APRIL DUDASH | Nov. 20, 2007With wintry weather around the corner, blankets were collected this month for the Gainesville homeless population.
With wintry weather around the corner, blankets were collected this month for the Gainesville homeless population.
While students return to their homes for holiday festivities and companionship, the LifeSouth Community Blood Centers remain lonely places.
Two UF students arrested at an appearance by former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday night were released from the Alachua County Jail on Tuesday afternoon.
With 26 student deaths since January, including several caused by traffic accidents, law enforcement officials are advising students to be careful on the roads this weekend.
County Commissioner Cynthia Chestnut held up a library card and said children can use it as an educational passport.
A UF student died Sunday after her second heart transplant failed.
An accident involving a car and scooter near Southwest Second Avenue and Southwest 26th Street left a UF student in serious condition Monday afternoon.
City towing rates could increase if employees at Watson's Towing get their way.
Food donations are pouring into the Bread of the Mighty Food Bank just in time for Thanksgiving.
It was all foreign for Yan Bo Diao. None of it - not the green beans and turkey piled on her plate, the bouncy bluegrass music or even the church where she ate - reminded her of her home in northeast China.
Kids ran through the barricaded areas of a street to play large-scale tic-tac-toe and paint their faces with rainbows, horses or flowers.
Children at Metcalfe Elementary School giggled with excitement Wednesday when a group of UF students stepped into their cafeteria.
Temperatures are expected to fall to or below freezing late tonight into early Saturday morning.
Gainesville was added to a list of 22 cities that restrict providing meals to the homeless in a November homeless advocacy report.
Regional Transit System buses will be getting a makeover next fall, but UF students won't be able to tell just by looking.
Crow Wilds named his squirrels after Nordic warriors.
Although UF will clash with Florida State University on the football field Nov. 24, police officers from both universities are working on a new campaign to discourage drunken driving and alcohol abuse during the game.
Ask 9-year-old Zach Bonner what he'll be doing to celebrate his birthday and you'll get this response: "I'll be walking."
Dirk Sampselle said he didn't expect 1,000 college students to care about homeless issues.
UF and Florida State University could start preparing future science and mathematics teachers for elementary public schools in a new way.