Comedians from Gainesville and across the U.S will perform improv for four days during the 10th annual Gainesville Improv Festival in one location, unlike past years.
For the sixth year in a row, sheriff’s deputies will join the community for barbecue and horse riding.
It all started with teamwork and a grant.
UF professor researches foodborne diseases
Chris Chiozza replaced Kasey Hill as Florida’s starting point guard on Dec. 12 at Michigan State.
UF is trying to beat the University of Kentucky in the annual “What Colors Do You Bleed?” blood drive.
The first topic discussed when coach Roland Thornqvist met with the media on Monday was junior Belinda Woolcock and her doubles match at the Australian open.
Woman threatens to stab government employee, authorities say
It’s been 30 years since the first knights and maidens gathered in Gainesville.
Local firefighters brought the heat at a statewide competition Saturday.
For Florida gymnastics coach Jenny Rowland, last weekend presented a slew of firsts.
The No. 4-ranked men’s and No. 11-ranked women’s swimming and diving teams found success and failure on Saturday against a tough conference opponent.
It’s been three weeks since the governor of California, Jerry Brown, issued a state of emergency regarding the ongoing Aliso Canyon gas leak that has spewed up to 58,000 kilograms of methane per hour since Oct. 23. Without doing too much math, that equates to about two and a half months since the natural gas well released a trove of delightful job-creating and completely harmless vapors into the atmosphere before any declaration of emergency took place.
Drones are not the silver bullets we’ve made them out to be. On one hand, they facilitate our objectives by killing high-value targets without risking American lives. But on the other hand, we have to deeply consider the consequences, ranging from civilian deaths to the deception and secrecy with which our government conducts these drone strikes.
Like so many college students with a Netflix subscription and a tendency to procrastinate, I devoured all 10 episodes of “Making a Murderer” within the course of four days. The hype surrounding the series was unavoidable, and after a fervent recommendation from a close friend, I happily shirked all responsibilities and dove in. As a courtesy spoiler alert, anyone who has exhibited the self-control to avoid the show and doesn’t want to know how it ends, avert your eyes.
Rankings are calculated by a computer before any competition for a season begins.
On “The Perfect Kiss,” Bernard Sumner of New Order sings, “I have always thought about/Staying here and going out/Tonight I should have stayed at home… I said ‘let’s go out and have some fun.’” Besides belonging to the finest song ever released by the Manchester, England-based rock band, these seemingly nonsensical and contradictory lyrics speak to a dilemma faced by nearly all college students possessing both a taste for the nightlife and a desire to bring home a degree: staying in or going out?
With 40 seconds left in Sunday’s game against Missouri, Florida’s Cassie Peoples took a jumper with her team down by 13.
Free points.
Nothing in sports is guaranteed.
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