More than $2,000 has been raised to pay for the legal fees of two Gainesville residents who police say attacked and robbed Michael Dewitz, the man who sparked a four-hour protest at UF over his use of a swastika.
Every single day before practice, each member of the Florida women’s basketball team takes a moment to reflect on what they’re thankful for and writes it down on a piece of paper.
Two thousand gallons of wastewater spilled into a UF creek that connects to Lake Alice on Sunday, prompting state officials to sanitize the affected area.
Six board members from Gainesville Citizens for Active Transportation voted to endorse Helen Warren and Harvey Ward on Monday after six candidates for City Commission pledged to help make city streets safer.
Starbucks is doing what it can to help refugees when they come to the U.S.
A Miami man with a Georgia driver’s license was caught Monday driving with 24 gallons of moonshine disguised as water, the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office said.
A Gainesville man, possibly high on cans of dust cleaner, drove a U-Haul truck into a mother and her child Sunday, injuring both, Gainesville Police say.
As he patrols the streets, Michael Cavett’s rainbow bracelet sticks out against his dark-blue police uniform, a sign of his pride.
The line of customers Monday snaked from a cash register, around a table and out the door, where the grating hum of construction reminded Randy Akerson that his business, after 40 years, was going under.
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After months of uncertainty, the North Central Florida YMCA announced Monday its doors will remain open.
Professor Bishop was rather proud of my last column, and I must say it was cathartic to put myself out there and admit to my clockwork, mechanical nature. Having people know me as an automaton doesn’t feel so different from being known as a human; friends accepted it fairly quickly, although I’m getting tired of people asking to use me as their personal calculator. I’ll say this now: No, I cannot tutor you in Elementary Ordinary Differential Equations. Yes, I can calculate the answers to any questions you may have in mathematics, anthropology and philosophy in the blink of an eye. No, it would not be ethical to do the latter. However, my operating system is open-source, if you’d like to take a look at it.
It has been a hard week, that much is evident. On an international, national and local scale, there’s been so much fear, hate and uncertainty. Some of you, dear readers, want to fight back, but it feels like you are yelling into a vast, empty canyon, your voices resonating loud and clear but eventually disappearing into the air, drowned out by the wind. Some of you are tired. Perhaps you fought once, perhaps you kicked and roared and screamed, perhaps your voices, too, were lost to the wind. And some of you carry on, unaware, unconcerned, because this fight isn’t yours, this battle is one you kind of wanted to win in the first place — though you won’t admit that now as the discontent grows.
Three major changes happened just prior to my visit to Cuba. First, direct commercial flights began flying between the U.S. and Cuba. I paid a little more than $200 for a round trip with JetBlue, purchasing my tickets only a couple weeks in advance. Of course, you must still fit into one of the 12 exceptions for travel if you are an American, but travel agencies and cruise lines (which have only recently begun docking in Cuban ports) have found ways around this, constructing educational and “people-to-people” itineraries. Regardless, the airline has you sign an affidavit indicating your official purpose of travel, a requirement which became clear to me that many Americans fabricate or exaggerate. No one ever checked my press credentials.
After a three-month layoff from their last team tournament, the Gators women’s golf team is finally hitting the links again this afternoon in Lecanto, Florida.
The Florida track and field team notched several victories at the Razorback Invitational over the weekend.
UF is the latest of 225 colleges and universities under federal investigation for possibly mishandling a sexual violence complaint.
The Ring Tennis Complex is becoming a stronghold for the Florida men’s team, as it registered victories over two schools in the ITA Kick-Off Tournament this weekend.
Entering the season, expectations were high for the Florida women’s tennis team. It held the No. 1 ranking, it was the SEC coaches’ pick to win the conference and its head coach boasted that this was his most talented team in 16 years. But despite the pressure, the Gators are living up to the hype.
The Swamp is dry. The Gators are hibernating. But that doesn’t mean Florida football fans can relax.
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