Every year, more than 52,000 Mormon missionaries descend upon the world. This is a four-part series that follows two such messengers.
Todd Brown doesn't miss methamphetamine.
The eyes of Donna Gail Weeks tell a story that could rip the toughest leather binding. The whites, chiseled with scraggy red lines, contain two empty black holes that seem to yearn for a world beyond the forbidding confines of prison walls, where she will spend the next 6 1/2 years.
While most people looked for a properly waxed date on Feb. 14, others found a valentine with a little extra fur.
Rafal Strzalkowski said his mother knew something was wrong when he was 12 months old.
County scientists will use grant money this January to perform tests on possible hazards of a local contaminated site.
As sunlight brightened a red-, beige- and black-stoned memorial and wind swept flapping flags, veterans of World War II were honored and remembered.
A Gainesville woman was arrested and accused of lighting her husband's sport utility vehicle on fire after an argument Saturday morning.
Food from the local farmers market may not always be "Fresh from Florida."
During his Thanksgiving break, Viraj Mehta, vice president of the Indian Student Association, spent hours watching the terrorist attacks in Mumbai unfold on CNN.
UF freshman Taylor Dariarow lugged her overflowing laundry basket down the stairs of Buckman Hall and across the courtyard to the Murphree Common Area.
Cher Hubsher spent a week in September waking in a hut to the cries of roosters at sunrise in eastern Panama.
It was 8 a.m. when the bagpiper began trotting down the hill. The first sound of tradition.
Early voters flocked to the polls during the past month in what is already being called a record-breaking pre-election rush, county officials said this weekend.
Aside from this election's open votes for the executive, legislative and judicial branches, six state amendments and three county referenda will be decided by Alachua County voters. Proposed amendments require 60 percent of voter support before being approved.
The place is an alcoholic and a hippie, a scenester and a sports star, a handbag-crazy nature freak as at ease in the library as in a disco.
The city is chock-full of historic locales, pillars of the government and beautiful, towering monuments to the nation's heroes.
Note: This is the third part in a three-part series on "going green".
This story is the second in a three-part series on the trend of "going green."
Sitting outside of a coffee shop, Hanna Moerland sipped from a cup of tea and reflected on her state of reverse culture shock.
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