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Animal rights group should stop harassment
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Sep. 20, 2011If you have stepped on a cockroach recently, you might want to watch your back.
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Shands expands to East Gainesville
By Emily Morrow | Sep. 20, 2011East Gainesville residents seeking medical care soon won't have to travel far from their neighborhoods.
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Tropical Storm Ophelia forms far from land
By The Associated Press | Sep. 20, 2011MIAMI - Tropical Storm Ophelia has formed in the open Atlantic Ocean but it is far from land.
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Delta passenger accused of threatening seatmate
By The Associated Press | Sep. 20, 2011SALT LAKE CITY - A Salt Lake City man faces federal felony charges after authorities say he threatened a seatmate on a Las Vegas-bound flight.
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NY police search for mom who abducted her own kids
By The Associated Press | Sep. 20, 2011NEW YORK - New York City police are looking for a woman who took eight of her own children from a child welfare agency without permission.
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Northeast Florida voters pick Audrey Gibson
By The Associated Press | Sep. 20, 2011TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Voters in five northeast Florida counties have picked Audrey Gibson as their next likely state senator.
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Feds: Full Tilt Poker site was Ponzi scheme
By The Associated Press | Sep. 20, 2011NEW YORK - An Internet poker company that was blocked from operating in the U.S. in the spring as part of an online gambling crackdown was "not a legitimate poker company, but a global Ponzi scheme," federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
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SG to demonstrate electronic voting system
By Clare Lennon | Sep. 20, 2011Student Government officials will demonstrate the new electronic voting system at Tuesday's Student Senate meeting.
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What faith demands: UF student sacrificed his life to comfort his friend
Sep. 19, 2011Keri O'Neil is a heavy sleeper; few disturbances get her up and moving. But at 5 a.m. on Feb. 12, lying on the maroon carpet in Room 108 of the Key West Inn, all it took was a slight shake of the foot.
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About 89 ejected from game
By Morgan Watkins | Sep. 19, 2011UF student David Baden had what may have been the best seats he'll ever get for a Gators football game.
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Packaging error leads to recall of birth-control pills
By Samantha Shavell | Sep. 19, 2011Eight oral contraceptives have been voluntarily recalled because of a packaging error.
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Bomb hoax on RTS bus causes road block Monday night
By Harold Rocha | Sep. 19, 2011Two black males entered a Route 35 RTS bus and said, "Attention, this is gonna be a very short ride," sitting down with a large duffle bag, said Cpl. Angelina Valuri of the Gainesville Police Department.
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In tough economy, are hikes unjustified?
By The Alligator Editorial Board | Sep. 19, 2011Is the Gainesville chapter of Students for a Democratic Society really concerned about tuition hikes, or is it just trying to find something to protest?
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Frogs, snakes invade Florida
By Emily Morrow | Sep. 19, 2011Floridians are well acquainted with their state's scalier residents. They have shared property lines with alligators and tree frogs, swept lizards out of their houses and gone to battle with a snake or two.
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Behind the poverty numbers: real lives, real pain
By The Associated Press | Sep. 19, 2011At a food pantry in a Chicago suburb, a 38-year-old mother of two breaks into tears.
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Former Illinois Sen. Charles Percy dies at 91
By The Associated Press | Sep. 19, 2011CHICAGO - Former Sen. Charles H. Percy, a successful Chicago businessman once widely viewed as a top presidential contender, described himself as "a conservative on money issues but a liberal on people issues."
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Officer in Florida drug case fired
By The Associated Press | Sep. 19, 2011MIAMI - Officials say a South Florida police officer facing drug charges has been fired after fleeing to Brazil earlier this month.
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Senator not always critical of energy loan program
By The Associated Press | Sep. 19, 2011WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. David Vitter calls the Obama administration "reckless" for awarding billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies for renewable energy projects, including a $528 million loan to a now-bankrupt California solar panel maker. But Vitter was not always so critical of the loan program.
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10 dead in Nev. air crash shared love of aviation
By The Associated Press | Sep. 19, 2011RENO, Nev. - They came from every corner to the Nevada desert to watch the nation's premier air race, a daring competition between speed-hungry pilots that pushed the limits of safety. They all had one thing in common: a deep affection for aviation.
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Kids move with art at Family Day
By Katherine Kallergis | Sep. 18, 2011Children and families watched as a dancer dropped her orange. A fellow dancer rushed to pick it up for her.
