After an evening of tailgating, a UF student rear-ended a scooter while drunk Saturday, Gainesville Police said.
A head-on car crash Sunday evening killed two women, one from Gainesville and the other from Waldo.
Playing in front of their home crowd for the first time in five games, the Gators didn’t disappoint.
Austin Appleby wasn’t happy as he stood behind the lectern, the place where Luke Del Rio should have been standing.
As Apple released its new iPhone 7 on Friday, a handful of eager students and residents circled a phone-filled table at the Archer Road Best Buy.
A memo addressed to administrators of UF’s Levin College of Law asking them to cut the graduate taxation program is forcing students and faculty to speak out.
Nicole Acosta leapt behind cardboard barriers in the lobby of UF’s Physics Building on Friday night, dodging opponents who aimed at her with infrared lasers.
A downtown scuffle escalated Friday after someone pulled out a rifle.
Jalen Tabor spoke quietly and confidently.
After a summer hiatus, Balls Bar looked like its old self Thursday.
A line stretched from the counter to the sidewalk at Krispy Kreme on Monday afternoon as doughnut fans celebrated Talk like a Pirate Day and ate free glazed doughnuts.
Jason Burns drove two hours Saturday in hopes of getting his red hat signed by Mike Pence.
President Barack Obama announced his intention to appoint UF President Kent Fuchs as a member of the National Science Board and National Science Foundation.
The cutting of a navy-blue ribbon Friday marked the grand opening of an on-campus outdoor gear rental facility.
We all have role models. Well, all of us except for J. Cole. In his song “No Role Modelz,” Cole points out that in this day and age, no role models exist for us to look up to anymore. The desire to live a humble lifestyle has since been replaced with the obnoxious, tacky and entirely superficial placeholders. Young people used to look up to athletes who didn’t use performance-enhancing drugs, politicians who made compromises to reach success for the betterment of this country and celebrities who engaged in philanthropic causes — not celebrities who get “Made in China” breast implants (read: a Kardashian) or “Made in Thailand” lip injections (read: a Kardashian).
I’m one of those people who wears heels on campus. You can catch me doing high-knees as I power my way up North Lawn or swinging from tree to tree as I teeter-totter across the Plaza of the Americas.
Our musical tastes are unbelievably polarized. There are very few popular songs that take a middle ground when it comes to emotion. Why does our generation seem to enjoy incredibly depressing, intensely angry or extraordinarily happy music? There is likely no single answer to this, but there is one I feel is the most probable.
“President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Period.”
As Tamaria Henderson, 20, rode her bicycle Saturday, she was reminded of alcoholism, an addiction she has battled for the past nine months.
UF’s volleyball team wasn’t expecting this.
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