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Garth Brooks performs "Stronger Than Me" at the 52nd annual CMA Awards at Bridgestone Arena on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

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Garth Brooks to sing at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium: A break in 25-year concert hiatus

By Tranelle Maner | Nov. 20, 2018

Tickets will cost $82.35.

UF art professor Nan Smith’s favorite creation is ‘Mercury’, which symbolizes how toxic chemicals can impact people’s food sources by traveling up the food chain within seafood.

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‘The end of a chapter:’ UF art professor of 40 years to retire in December

By Dana Cassidy | Nov. 18, 2018

She’ll be taking a full focus on her studio art career.

UF celebrates 200th anniversary of “Frankenstein” with spooky live reading

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What makes a monster? New UF class opening exhibit in January

By Adrianna Santiago | Nov. 18, 2018

The class is taught by UF honors students.

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UF students and Florida Influencers yearn for solutions to the gun debate

By Christina Morales | Nov. 18, 2018

Influencers discussed solutions to the gun problem to submit to future lawmakers.

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UF creates a new institute to promote research on the earth and Florida’s future

By McKenna Beery | Nov. 18, 2018

The project is funded by a $10 million donation

Shaking a bottle of peanuts, Paula Fernandez, a 31-year-old UF teaching assistant, protests fees for employees of the university

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Graduate students march to UF administration office

By Gillian Sweeney | Nov. 17, 2018

Graduate students want the UF administration to pay up.

Malik Bakr sits in the driver’s seat of a car with his family friend at his Uncle Ernest’s Celebration of Life ceremony in Hawaii. Ernest was killed in a motorcycle accident, which spurred Bakr’s decision to move back to Gainsville.

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First Gainesville, next the world: Local nonprofit brings basketball and gardens to east side

By Hannah Beatty | Nov. 15, 2018

The group was started by a local 20-year-old.

Freshman Alyssa Baumann posted the high score in beam for the second time in her career with a 9.90.

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UF gymnast said she was victim of Larry Nassar's sexual abuse

By Angela DiMichele | Nov. 15, 2018

Nearly 500 women also accused Nassar.

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Student Body President Ian Green's family to donate $100,000

By Gillian Sweeney | Nov. 15, 2018

$75,000 has already been donated.

Cliff Preston, 63, was nominated for the NASCAR Foundation Betty Jane France Humanitarian Award for his volunteer work as a baby cuddler at UF Health Shands Hospital in the neonatal intensive care unit.

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UF Health Shands Hospital baby cuddling volunteer nominated for humanitarian award

By McKenna Beery | Nov. 15, 2018

He could win up to $100,000 for Shands.

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Everything that went wrong: voting edition

Nov. 15, 2018

SG committed so many sins when promoting elections, it's worth two columns

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Our nation, world and university depend on international education

Nov. 15, 2018

I believe universities today must be champions of internationalization as essential to our nation’s prosperity and security.

This Tuesday, April 10, 2018 file photo shows vaping devices, including a Juul, center, that were confiscated from students at a high school in Marshfield, Mass. On Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, San Francisco-based Juul Labs Inc. announced it had stopped filling orders for its mango, fruit, creme and cucumber pods but not menthol and mint. It will sell all flavors through its website and limit sales to those 21 and older. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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FDA to crack down on Juuls, flavored vapes

By Mike Stobbe | Nov. 15, 2018

In a major new effort to curb smoking, a top U.S. health official pledged Thursday to try to ban menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars and tighten rules governing the sale of most flavored versions of electronic cigarettes.

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George A. Smathers Libraries donates to Field and Fork Pantry for survey responses

By Jeana Fraser | Nov. 14, 2018

The libraries plan to donate up to $3,000.

Susan MacManus, 71, speaks at the 2018 Election Wrap Up event in Pugh Hall on Tuesday night. MacManus is a professor emeritus at the University of South Florida, as well as a member of the Bob Graham Center Council of Advisors. The event, which focused on analyzing many facets of the midterm election, was sponsored by the Bob Graham Center and the League of Women Voters of Alachua County/Gainesville. One thing that MacManus honed in on was the shift from elections being dominated by baby boomers to elections being more evenly split among generations. "We're seeing a generational transformation of Florida's electorate," said MacManus.

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UF, USF political science professors discuss midterm election results

By Taylor Roth | Nov. 13, 2018

The professors explained why some expectations weren't met during election night

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UF students remember the comic book legend Stan Lee

By Gillian Sweeney | Nov. 13, 2018

He died Monday at the age of 95. His cause of death is not yet known.

About 50 Gainesville residents and elected officials gathered to honor the victims of Sunday's mass shooting in Jacksonville

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Candlelight vigil held on UF campus for Thousand Oaks victims

By Angela DiMichele | Nov. 11, 2018

It was the second vigil on campus this month

To spend 24 hours in Library West, I had to bring along some supplies.

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The Alligator sent a reporter into Library West for a whole 24 hours to ask: 'Why are you here?' Here’s what 24 people had to say.

By Gillian Sweeney | Nov. 8, 2018

Andrew Gillum attended Gainesville High School from 1994 to 1998. Some of his roles included sophomore class president, senior class president and student body vice president.

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Before he was a candidate for governor, Andrew Gillum cut his teeth in Gainesville

By Angela DiMichele | Nov. 8, 2018

He dove into government during his four years at Gainesville High School.

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Early voting on campus: heroes and wannabes

Nov. 8, 2018

The Reitz was an early voting location. Who is really to thank?