Following months of financial woes, former NFL running back Clinton Portis filed a Suggestion of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy on Nov. 5, which revealed numerous debts totaling more than $2 million.
Eighty-seven people popped a squat on the Plaza of the Americas on Thursday afternoon.
A middle-school student and an artist stood side by side to paint a mural together Thursday.
University Police confirmed the death of a UF student after he collapsed early Thursday during Air Force ROTC training.
Gainesville Police arrested a local man early Thursday morning after police said he robbed a UF student Tuesday. One suspect remains at large.
UF Health Shands Hospital’s smallest patients are getting more space with the expansion of the neonatal intensive care unit.
Gainesville city commissioners voted 6-0 with one absent at Thursday’s meeting to remove the criminal conviction history checkbox from city employment applications.
After recent robberies in Gainesville and terrorist activity abroad, all levels of law enforcement will increase security during Saturday’s football game against Florida Atlantic University.
Graduate assistants gifted a UF administrator a basket including bills, a bra and a condom.
Sometimes Nicholas Nourieh spends hours looking at the relics of his past life.
On any given Friday, this would be the space where we make a witty aside or use a semi-obscure pop-cultural reference to introduce that week’s edition of Darts & Laurels. Well, we hate to disappoint, but we have nothing of the sort this week. Nothing. Zilch. Nada. Just letters, words and sentences to fill up space until we get to the main attraction…which is Darts & Laurels. Yup.
I lived primarily off two things when I had a meal plan: Gator Dining chocolate chip cookies and unlimited pineapple.
I thought I might write something about Friday’s horrific scenes from Paris. I thought I’d write about how we could use this to take events in the Middle East seriously from a humanitarian perspective without falling into the obvious trap the Islamic State group has set for us, whereby we abandon the very multiculturalism and tolerance that has made the West a place of relative peace and security. It’s these very attitudes the huddled masses who flee ISIS’ apocalyptic cruelty yearn for. And, while writing, I could hope in vain that far-right, Eurosceptic freaks won’t ride a wave of nationalist reaction and ethnic resentment into office, dismantling the diplomatic structures that have maintained relative peace in Europe for 70 short years (not counting a genocide against Muslims in Bosnia). I would also really like it if, when vicious goons like Marine Le Pen and Nigel Farage lead their gangs into parliament halls, they wouldn’t plunge the world into a second Dark Age, complete with our very own crusades.
Gator fans will wine and dine on the field of the football team’s new indoor training facility tonight.
UF students may have access to free suits, heels and ties in time for the next Career Showcase.
A favorite Midtown bar will soon close its doors for renovations.
A local artist co-op will get in the holiday spirit and celebrate its 45 years of business this weekend with a new set of homemade ornaments.
Florida and Florida Atlantic don’t have much in common.
While the first two games of the season have resulted in wins for the Gators, they are still just the first two games. Florida defeated Navy on the road by 18 and blew out North Carolina A&T at home by 50, but the competition will only increase in difficulty from here, starting Saturday in Connecticut.
With Florida clinging to a 31-24 lead against East Carolina, ECU quarterback Blake Kemp dropped back to pass.
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