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NEWS | CAMPUS

UF retention among highest in country

By Elisabell Velazquez | Feb. 7, 2020

The retention rates remain consistent

NEWS | CAMPUS STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Inspire, Gator release platform points

By Chasity Maynard | Feb. 7, 2020

Both parties focus on student safety

A Lucky’s Market customer shops as the store’s closing approaches. The store is officially closing on Feb. 12.

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Lucky’s Market in Gainesville being sold to Southeastern Grocers

By Stephany Matat and Anna Wilder | Feb. 7, 2020

The store is officially closing Feb. 12

Nora Brown's stickers, which she proudly displays on her water bottle, speak to her experience interning in Washington D.C. over the summer.

THE AVENUE | LIFESTYLE

A Story Told Through Stickers

By Katie Delk | Feb. 7, 2020

5 students share what their favorite stickers mean to them

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF student data among information sold by anti-virus software

By Hannah Phillips | Feb. 6, 2020

Avast sold users’ browsing history and geo-locations

METRO

City Commission discusses police department’s immigration policy

By Grethel Aguila | Feb. 6, 2020

One of several changes to the order states that GPD should only assist ICE when there is a task force or joint criminal investigation involved

Kamula McKnight-Butler and Phillip Griffiths, Denise Griffiths' mother and father, speak fondly of their late daughter and urge her loved ones to celebrate her life during her memorial service in the Rion Ballroom on Wednesday evening. "Denise has dropped the mic, but will always be in the building," Griffiths said.

NEWS | CAMPUS

'Rest in Power:' Denise Griffiths remembered

By Hannah Phillips and Chasity Maynard | Feb. 6, 2020

More than 150 people attended her memorial

METRO

Gainesville under tornado watch tonight

By Stephany Matat | Feb. 6, 2020

Winds will be 25 mph with gusts of up to 45 mph

SPORTS | GYMNASTICS

Gators welcome Denver and Iowa State for tri-meet

By Noah Ram | Feb. 6, 2020

Eight years is a long time.

SPORTS | SOFTBALL

Previewing the 2020 Florida season, which begins tonight

By Payton Titus | Feb. 6, 2020

What were once commanding voices of leadership in the locker room, bullpen and dugout have now vacated Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium. The echoes of all-time athletes like Kelly Barnhill, Amanda Lorenz and Alex Voss interfere with loud whispers of doubt from the rest of college softball, generating feedback in Gainesville.

SPORTS | MEN'S BASKETBALL

From boys to men

By Joseph Salvador | Feb. 6, 2020

The crowd in Gainesville exploded as bucket after bucket sank. Shooters couldn’t miss, and fans sporting orange and blue were in awe of the offensive showing.

SPORTS | FOOTBALL

Gators ink three signees, adding to their top-10 class

By Brendan Farrell | Feb. 6, 2020

Florida bolstered its 2020 signing class on Wednesday with three signings, finishing the day eighth in the country.

FILE - This Oct. 3, 2018 file photo shows a view of the exterior of Wembley Stadium in London. The Jacksonville Jaguars will play two home games in London next season, strengthening the franchise’s foothold in an overseas market the NFL is eager to expand. The Jaguars will play back-to-back games at historic Wembley Stadium, giving them a potential “home-field” advantage in the second one since they won’t have to travel that week. Specific dates were not announced.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

SPORTS | COLUMNS

You don’t know your own fans, Shad Khan

By Graham Marsh | Feb. 6, 2020

The promises are empty, but the stadium is emptier.

SPORTS | OTHER SPORTS LACROSSE

Chomp vs. Stomp: Gators open season against Buffaloes

By Christian Ortega | Feb. 6, 2020

Amanda O’Leary opened the first media availability of the season, exuding nothing but confidence.

SPORTS | WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Florida hosts Georgia after monumental weekend victory

By Bryan Matamoros | Feb. 6, 2020

SPORTS | MEN'S BASKETBALL

Gators stage miraculous comeback against Georgia

By Brendan Farrell | Feb. 5, 2020

It all started with some boos.

In this image from video, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts arrives for the vote in the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. (Senate Television via AP)

NEWS | NATIONAL

Not Guilty: Split Senate acquits Trump of impeachment

By Lisa Mascaro | Feb. 5, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) —

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., tears her copy of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address after he delivered it to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

NEWS | NATIONAL

Pelosi shreds Trump's speech. Right there on the podium.

By Laurie Kellman | Feb. 5, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — And then she tore up the speech.

President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, as Vice President Mike Pence ad House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., listen. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

NEWS | NATIONAL

AP Fact Check: Trump's exaggerated 'great American comeback'

By Josh Boak | Feb. 5, 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — The "great American comeback" President Donald Trump claimed in his State of the Union speech drew on falsehoods about U.S. energy supremacy, health care and the economy as well as distortions about his predecessor's record.

NEWS | CAMPUS

UF hemp pilot project gains sponsorships and success

By Katelynn Joyner | Feb. 5, 2020

The program received $1.3 million from Green Roads and $200,000 from other sponsors

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