When Celeste Mergens went on a Christian mission trip to a Kenyan orphanage in 2008, she found many of the young girls didn’t know what menstruation was.
The rivalry will be renewed on Saturday. No. 11 Florida (6-1, 4-1 Southeastern Conference) and Georgia (5-2, 3-2 SEC) meet at Everbank Field at 3:30 p.m. with control of the SEC East on the line. Here’s what to watch for from Georgia on Saturday.
The Gator duo of junior Belinda Woolcock and sophomore Josie Kuhlman came out on top Monday afternoon after what was an all-Gator doubles finals match for the USTA/ITA Southeast Regional Championships.
In May 2014, the Alachua County Girl Scout Troop 733 received thank you letters from teenage girls in Kenya.
No. 18 Florida made a statement on Tuesday when it placed four Gators in the top five of the Florida Gulf Coast University Classic, capturing their first team win of the season in the final Fall tournament.
UF professor discovers treatment plan for nut addiction
After a disappointing performance in their dual-competition against Texas and Indiana, the Gators men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams are hoping to bounce back after an off-week, healthy and in peak racing condition.
Instead of sleeping in his hospital bed, 9-year-old Aahren Fraser was decorating plastic pumpkins with his mom Tuesday morning.
Gainesville Police arrested a local man Monday evening after police said he approached two people with a pair of knives.
Abby Wambach’s retirement concludes the career of the most significant soccer player in U.S. history.
Shana Call often receives calls from her old neighbors about her husband’s new card game.
Following national outcry, the FBI and the Department of Justice announced Tuesday that they have opened up an investigation into the violent arrest of a black high-school student by a white sheriff’s deputy in Columbia, South Carolina. Officer Ben Fields arrested the student after forcefully yanking her out of her desk by wrapping his arm around her neck. Having flipped the student and her desk, Fields then dragged her to the front of the classroom. This came after she refused to leave her seat and had already ignored requests from her teacher and other school administrators to do so. A second student, Niya Kenny, 18, was arrested soon after for taping the encounter. Her arrest was justified under the premise that she was “disturbing school.”
CNN recently published an opinion piece by Columbia University linguist John McWhorter entitled “Goodbye to ‘he’ and ‘she’ and hello to ‘ze’?” which dealt with the state of gender-neutral pronouns in the English language.
It’s been awhile since any of us have walked down a kindergarten hallway. Yet, across the country and the span of time, and as long as coloring and finger painting have been staples in the golden years of our lives, so has finishing the daunting sentence, “When I grow up, I want to be…”
Matheson Museum Board of Directors voted 9-2 Tuesday evening against accepting a controversial confederate statue as a museum exhibit.
Abby Wambach, the leading career goal scorer in international play and a former Gator, announced her retirement from soccer Tuesday.
Youth is lively.
With the start of practice now all but gone from the team’s rearview mirror and the start of the regular season still a ways off, the Florida women’s basketball team is doing everything possible to remain focused.
No. 20 Florida is one day away from finishing the Fall with their first team win of the season.
Florida volleyball has found its rhythm.
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