A 71-year-old Gainesville man was banned from campus Wednesday after he poked a 21-year-old female UF student in the butt three times at Library West, according to the University Police Department.
Since Friday, Student Body President Jordan Johnson has been "tweeting" at the student body.
After a three-day murder trial, a Gainesville man was sentenced to life in prison for killing Tallahassee resident Andrew Arosamena in the Downtown Gainesville Parking Garage about a year and a half ago, hours after a UF - FSU football game.
As the final seconds of Game 5 ticked off the clock, it was a bittersweet moment.
George Elmore has attended city hall and town hall meetings for 37 years, but he says this one was not like the rest.
On Oct. 22, I was at Tropicana Field for the Tampa Bay Rays' first-ever World Series game. My friend, who generously offered his family's extra ticket to me, still pokes fun at me for the stupid grin I had on my face for the first eight innings of the game.
During the next few weeks, expect to see Florida football players seated in the front, not the back, of local police cruisers.
Giving blood never tasted so good.
Students will likely pay about 16 percent more for classes this fall after UF's Board of Trustees approved the increases at Friday's meeting.
Before Billy Horschel's first-ever PGA Tour event, he attempted to downplay the adjustment necessary to make the jump from college to professional golf.
Gainesville police are awaiting the autopsy results for a man whose body was discovered near Northwest 23rd Avenue Monday morning.
It may cost $1.5 to $2.3 million to reconstruct Gainesville's historic Depot building, a long-term city project located just south of downtown.
Two members of the Gator Nation will square-off over a party foul on national TV today in a pre-recorded episode of "Judge Joe Brown."
The search for UF's new women's golf coach is over.
Tragedy struck suburban Orlando on Monday with news of a murder-suicide claiming the lives of a Heathrow family.
While wondering what midtown bar you should visit on Friday evening remains a bigger Gainesville no-brainer than taking an online course, pondering where to move post-college could be deemed almost unanswerable.
It seems like every year, when the graduation fanfare has subsided and the confetti has reached the floor, graduates turn their eyes to the piece of paper standing in for four years of trial and tuition and ask the rather pressing question, "What did I just put myself through?"
Abdul-Azim Mohammed was providing a play-by-play of the Iran Election early Sunday morning. Azim first reported that local police stations had been forced to burn ballot boxes filled with votes for Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presidential challenger. A few minutes later, Azim declared that Internet access and phone lines had been cut off. Later, Azim's reports of people filling the streets of Tehran were verified with BBC footage showing legions of angry young Iranians chanting "Death to the Dictator" in the streets.
I sure hope that Minnesota can get used to being a congressional amputee.
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