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Sunday, February 22, 2026

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After Meth: Drugs left Weeks lonely, helpless

The eyes of Donna Gail Weeks tell a story that could rip the toughest leather binding. The whites, chiseled with scraggy red lines, contain two empty black holes that seem to yearn for a world beyond the forbidding confines of prison walls, where she will spend the next 6 1/2 years.


SPORTS

Heisman Watch: Week 5

Eventually, a couple of players will have to start separating themselves from the rest of the pack to win the Heisman Trophy, but until then, our alligatorSports Heisman Watch will continue to have shake ups.


NEWS

Comfy Chat

Brett Boncore, a UF sophomore, holds a sign advertising "Couch Talk." The couch, which Boncore and friends Michelle Hubbard and Daniel Hemme set up on the Plaza of the Americas, is intended to give students a place to just come and talk about their lives, he said.


NEWS

Stringing It Along

Wolfe Cronin, a UF mechanical engineering junior, lies on a bench next to the "potato" on Turlington Plaza while playing his guitar to pass the time in between classes Monday afternoon.



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