Many observers of this year's historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination have been wondering out loud why Sen. Hillary Clinton hasn't dropped out of the race yet. Sen. Barack Obama has won more states and more pledged delegates, and now he has secured the endorsement of more superdelegates than Clinton.
Beetles about the size of Abraham Lincoln's nose on the penny are swiftly eliminating trees across the southeastern U.S.
A former Shands at UF nurse accused of killing a 24-year-old UF student was found guilty Friday and sentenced to life in prison without parole, according to reports from The Gainesville Sun.
Patty Dingman and Anuk do not miss an episode of "Grey's Anatomy."
UF officials were presented with an oversized check for $1 million Thursday in hopes that a cure will be found for a disease that causes blindness.
Philip Sandifer, Ph.D. candidate, English
After winning its first regional title since 1986, the UF women's golf team had national championship aspirations.
Disappointment has become a recurring theme in the advisement office at SFCC.
Phillip Whittington, 5, picks a blueberry at South Moon Farm in Cross Creek Sunday afternoon. Phillip picked blueberries with his mom, Susan Whittington, and her sister, Megan Romano, for their families and for Romano's daycare class. The class is going to make blueberry pies Tuesday, Romano said.
LaShanta Harris, Gainesville resident
Stacey Nelson stood in the circle one pitch away from the Wome's College World Series as more than 2,000 screaming fans rose to their feet.
According to a report in the Associated Press, Yannick Noah could care less about his son's arrest and drug possession charges.
As students piled out of bars early Saturday morning, the day was just beginning for dozens of volunteers who unloaded cardboard tombstones for the annual Memorial Mile.
Steel bars and hard hats filled the O'Connell Center this weekend for the 17th annual National Student Steel Bridge Competition.
Former UF basketball player Joakim Noah was arrested early Sunday morning and charged with cannabis possession and an open container violation.
The Alligator was founded in 1906 as The University News, which was an independent, student-owned newspaper created to serve the University of Florida when it opened in Gainesville. In 1912, the newspaper became a part of the University of Florida administration, and was renamed the Florida Alligator.
UF officials are working to cope with the loss of two state-funded gift matching programs eliminated by the Florida Legislature in the most recent state budget.
UF's Student Health Care Center received an award from the Florida Department of Health Bureau of Epidemiology for its reaction to a measles outbreak in Gainesville during spring 2007.
A sketch of the man who attacked and raped a woman jogging in Haile Plantation Wednesday was released this weekend.
Despite dreary weather, festivities for the ninth annual Lag B'Omer barbecue at the Lubavitch-Chabad Jewish Student and Community Center were lively Thursday night.The center combined the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer with the 60th anniversary of Israel's statehood, celebrating with a kosher barbecue, pony rides, face painting, crafts and live music from the Gainesville Chutzpa Band. Rabbi Berl Goldman said about 150 people attended the celebration and estimated that $300 was raised from ticket sales.Lag B'Omer is a Jewish holiday celebrating the lives of sages Rabbi Akiva, who promoted Jewish unity during the Roman occupation of Israel, and Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, who revealed the mystical secrets of the Torah, called Kabbalah.The holiday, celebrated on the 33rd day after the second day of Passover, also represents a break in the mourning period between Passover and Shavuot. It marks the end of a plague that affected Akiva's disciples.In Israel, thousands of Jews march through the streets in parades and demonstrations during the holiday.
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