Eleven Gainesville Police officers reported to the Wal-Mart on Archer Road on Friday after they received a false report from a pay phone of a gun-wielding man in the sporting-goods section, a GPD report stated.
The UF club handball team tested its strength at the 4th-annual Swampland Handball Championships this weekend in Gainesville.
It could pay to ride a bicycle to work.
Gainesville Police arrested a teenager Sunday in connection with a car chase that ended when the car hit a tree, a Gainesville Police report stated.
When UF associate head coach Nick Cheronis addressed the media on Monday, he attributed the Gators' recent success largely to timing.
The Bowl Championship Series poll is as biased as the sky is blue.
After they had lunch together for the last time, Walter Weyrauch gave UF law professor Sharon Rush a book about a subject that had come up during their discussion.
College students pride themselves on being the most optimistic, innovative and take-action demographic in this country. Our generation in particular is said to be more committed to solving social injustices than any generation before us, but it seems as if college students have lost their giddy enthusiasm and unrelenting optimism.
As Carl Johnson approached the tunnel - just minutes away from storming onto the field for his first career start against defending champion LSU - he received some simple but choice words to give him inspiration from the man he is attempting to replace, Jim Tartt.
The Gators' suddenly lethal rushing attack looks to be getting a key weapon back this week.
Because of high costs, UF no longer plans to install two LCD screens that would have displayed a GPS map of bus locations.
On a November morning in 1982, California residents awoke to see a San Francisco Chronicle story about Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Bradley with a headline boasting "Bradley Win Projected."
Over the course of two days, 275 tagged Monarch butterflies fluttered their orange wings and were released into the sky to begin their migration to Central Mexico.
The Friends of the Library book sale opened Saturday to record-breaking numbers.
As part of the "Early Vote for Change" tour, Michelle Obama will be stopping in Gainesville on Wednesday afternoon to rally voters to go to the polls.
As a former Student Senator and a current student, I must say that Homrich-Micocci's guest column was factually inaccurate on many levels. I have sat on committees that discussed many of the problems he addressed. I am disgusted at the lack of insight or research into anything.
The theme of the 2008 presidential campaign, as with many others, has been a continued focus on topics extraneous to the core of our country's problems.
Sen. John McCain, please stop the nonsense. I'm tired of hearing about Ayers and ACORN. The roller-coaster economy needs your attention.
The cloudy, colorless sky was no match for the rainbows that flooded Saturday's Pride Festival.
Boy were we disappointed when we got to the HOWL-o-ween Dog Costume Contest at UF's Equine Auditorium.
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