Gators advance to NCAA finals
May 19, 2008Jill Briles-Hinton saw this coming since last year.
Jill Briles-Hinton saw this coming since last year.
Harsh winds couldn't extinguish the flames blazing from a couple hundred candlewicks at a Friday night vigil held to honor victims of an earthquake that hit the Sichuan Province of China on May 12.
A dispute at a UF Student Senate committee meeting Sunday left the Gator Party and the Orange and Blue Party pointing fingers over job responsibility.
A Gainesville Police Department officer who resigned May 9 remains part of an ongoing GPD internal investigation.
Some local businesses think the Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce's economic stimulus plan is right on the money.
Elizabeth Hillaker, UF Alumnus
All of us should have at least one credit card. There will come a time when each of us wants to buy a car or a house or a boat, and for most of us that will require financing. Demonstrating the ability to responsibly use credit helps build up your credit score, and the higher your credit score, the less you will be paying in interest when you go to take out a loan.
The Gainesville Police Department broke up a group of fighting juveniles Saturday near Waldo Road.
Watching the recent season finale of "Survivor," Donna Smith discovered a way to achieve reality stardom herself.
Members of UF's Faculty Senate called for greater input over decisions about faculty layoffs and department shake-ups during the Senate's Thursday meeting.
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A Gainesville man was charged with stabbing and killing a Virginia man with a knife Friday evening in northeast Gainesville.
It's never easy when a successful season comes to a bitter end.
Newberry welcomed visitors far and wide to its 63rd Annual Watermelon Festival on Saturday.
UF students returned for summer classes to a campus littered with chain-link fences and abuzz with the sounds of demolition.
The completion of a local mural shows that hard work doesn't go up in smoke.
For Liene Karsuma the road to Bejing runs through Gainesville.
After $200,000 in state funds were cut from UF's Documentary Institute, supporters of the institute argue that it was unfairly targeted by the dean of the College of Journalism and Communications.
The next few months are the prime time for music lovers to catch a great show. And if you're looking to see one good concert this year, go see Kanye West's Glow in the Dark Tour. This show was surrounded by a halo of hype from the get-go. It received stellar reviews all around, and when Entertainment Weekly gave the show a B+, it got an earful from Kanye who responded on his blog, "What's a B+ mean? I'm an extremist. It's either pass or fail! A+ or F-!"
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, summer has finally arrived. The Legislature has concluded one of the most painful and pointless sessions in recent memory, Major League Baseball is in full swing, the Sunshine State's signature sweltering temperatures are starting to return, and for many of us here in the Gator Nation, it's back-to-school as a new semester presents us with new opportunities to engage in one of our favorite pastimes: procrastination. As we venture into summer '08, however, we at the Department of Darts and Laurels won't waste any time presenting to you, our loyal readers, a hot and fresh, first-of-the-summer-edition of…