Gigi Simmons didn’t just want to be a single mother without an education. She wasn’t going to be a statistic.
Charles Goston doesn’t care if you remember his name in ten years — so long as the effect he had in Gainesville is everlasting.
Tyra Edwards earned her nickname “Ty Loudd” for being a prominent voice of District 1. Now she wants to take that voice to the City Commission.
Commissioner at large and Mayor Pro Tempore Harvey Budd is running for re-election because he feels incomplete.
Politics wasn’t on Gail Johnson’s radar until the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
A Gainesville man faced a more than $1.7 million bond after an incident that police said began with him honking at officers.
If you’ve kept up with the NFL Combine or anything surrounding it in the past couple of weeks, you may have heard LSU running back Derrius Guice spill some tea on an unidentified team after one of its scouts asked Guice a pointed question in a private interview.
After about 20 years, researchers from UF and the Palatka-based St. Johns River Water Management District may have found a new way to decrease populations of algae that are harmful for plants and animals in water.
Lawrence E. Reeves used to spend his mornings in a Gainesville enclosure with a handheld vacuum in one hand and a piece of cardboard in the other.
UF was recently ranked as one of the top schools with Peace Corps volunteers.
UPDATE: Florida Highway Patrol officials announced Monday night that 65-year-old Vandall A. Griffin was the man who died after he was struck by two cars Saturday night. Griffin was from Citra, which is about 30 minutes away from Gainesville.
Update 11 a.m. Monday:
On Friday, Gov. Rick Scott met with the loved ones of the 17 people who were murdered in the Parkland school shooting last month. After these meetings in Tallahassee, Scott signed a law that will create stricter measures for gun purchases across the state.
Two facts. First, last week Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill raising the minimum age for purchasing rifles in Florida from 18 to 21. The bill also expanded the handgun waiting period to cover long guns, ban bump stocks and create a program allowing some school personnel to carry guns (I guess we can’t have it all).
As you scrolled through social media Thursday, you probably noticed a post here and there about someone’s mother, sister or best friend. The post likely acknowledged their strength, beauty or any of their characteristics.
A Gainesville man with burned, peeling skin told witnesses there was no fire Thursday night, officials said.
This past Friday, four people died after a hostage situation emerged at a home for veterans just north of Napa, California.
Grant Holloway stared at the NCAA trophy in his hands as his teammates jumped into each other’s arms.
When Jordan Butler hit a grounder to the right side of the infield that scored Deacon Liput for the game-winning run, the freshman was mobbed by his teammates down the first-base line.
While most college basketball teams gathered around a television set, anxiously waiting to hear if they made the cut for the NCAA Tournament, the Gators were stuck inside an airplane on a St. Louis runway.
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