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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
UPDATED: Search continues for suspected bank robber
By Giuseppe Sabella | July 26, 2016Update 8:00 p.m. —
SPORTS
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COLUMNS
Column: Harris’ decision to transfer best for everyone involved
By IAN COHEN | July 25, 2016This is for the best.
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Students with disabilities still face struggles at UF
By Monica Andrade | July 25, 2016Editor’s note: Though strides have been taken since the Alligator ran a two-part series in 1976 about calls for a more handicap-friendly campus, it seems there is still progress to be made.
METRO
Bike rental program expands
By Isabella Dohse | July 25, 2016Gator Gears, UF’s student bike rental program, has expanded its availability to all registered students. Last year, the program was exclusively offered to incoming freshmen at Preview.
SPORTS
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RECRUITING
UF football lands two commitments from Friday Night Lights
By Ethan Bauer | July 25, 2016Adarius Lemons is staying home.
METRO
GPD and residents gather for discussion
By Jasmine Osmond | July 25, 2016Gainesville Police focused on police violence at its monthly Police Advisory Council meeting Monday, which took place from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Gainesville Technology Enterprise Center.
METRO
Local fair provides exercise tips, encourages healthy diets
By Nicole Kocian | July 25, 2016“Everybody has a butt, but do you actually know how to use it?”
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Football player stops sexual assault
By Giuseppe Sabella | July 25, 2016After a UF football player and another Gainesville man intervened on a sexual assault near Midtown on Thursday, detectives are now searching for information about whether the man has assaulted other women.
METRO
Electronics company creates 3-D printing design challenge
By Demi Wolfe | July 25, 2016Mouser Electronics, an electronic component distributor, launched a challenge for engineers across the country to submit designs for objects that can be used in space.
OPINION
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EDITORIALS
Editorial: Bourne-ing down the Bern: 2016
July 25, 2016Who doesn’t love a good conspiracy film? A lone fighter struggling against a governmental authority responsible for controversial, covert schemes and robbing our fighter of his identity? Matt Damon as Jason Bourne has satisfied such spy inklings for years and will now return. First, there was “The Bourne Identity.” Then, “The Bourne Supremacy” and “The Bourne Ultimatum.”
NEWS
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CAMPUS
Dance program to host performances this weekend
By Brianna Sachs. Contributing Writer | July 25, 2016Swamp Dance Fest, a four-week summer dance intensive offered at UF’s G-6 Studio, will end this week with performances developed throughout the program.
METRO
Wal-Mart to sell less-than-perfect apples in Florida stores
By Catherine Dickson | July 25, 2016Fruits and vegetables are just as edible whether they are picture perfect or dented and bruised, which is why Wal-Mart recently partnered with “I’m Perfect,” a company that sells slightly damaged produce.
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CAMPUS
UF/IFAS to host event on starting businesses
By Nealy Kehres | July 25, 2016Aspiring bread-bakers, cheese-makers and beer-brewers will gather at the first Tampa Bay Cottage Industry Expo on Saturday.
METRO
Sixteen-person bike now features rooftop solar panel
By Nancy Massani | July 25, 2016The lights and speakers on Florida Fun Bikes’ 16-person bike will now be powered by a small rooftop solar panel.
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CAMPUS
UF researchers working to create anti-virus program
By Martin | July 25, 2016Ransomware — viruses that steal computer files and hold them hostage for money — causes Americans to lose millions of dollars, and UF researchers are working on a solution.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Opinion: A nation on political suicide watch
July 25, 2016My roommate, a modest conservative, had to endure the sight of me last week going full-fetal on our sofa, hugging a pillow, while I watched Fox News coverage of the Republican National Convention. “Why are you even watching this?” he asked, knowing full well my left-of-center views. “It’s like a train wreck,” I replied. “You just can’t look away.”
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Guest Column: UF and the failed coup in Turkey
July 25, 2016On July 15 in Istanbul, Turkey, soldiers closed the two bridges across the Bosphorus, the first indication that elements of the army were planning to remove the government of President Recip Tayyip Erdogan. In Ankara, the national capital, other soldiers took control of television stations and shelled the parliament building. President Erdogan had to use social media to rally his supporters. But by morning it was all over with Erdogan in full control.
OPINION
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COLUMNS
Guest Column: Three reasons to consider agriculture
July 25, 2016First, it’s a way you can change the world. We need to produce more food over the course of your working lives than we have in the past 10,000 years. We’re not going to get there if people like you don’t come up with the scientific advances.
SPORTS
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FOOTBALL
Treon Harris to transfer from Florida
By IAN COHEN | July 25, 2016After two years at Florida, Treon Harris is transferring, the school confirmed Monday.
