In traditional bright-colored dresses, about 20 Vietnamese students twirled umbrellas and spun bamboo hats Saturday night to celebrate their culture.
Seven additional people were charged as part of a parking fraud ring that led to an arrest of a UF Transportation and Parking Services employee in March.
For his first time running for a Student Government Senate seat, Michael McAllister’s chose to interview with the new Challenge Party.
If elected, a UF student would become the youngest Democrat to be in the Florida House of Representatives.
Alachua County received full reimbursement from UF for the public safety costs accrued when Richard Spencer spoke at UF in October of last year.
Jhody Polk was sentenced to eight years in prison for home invasion and theft in 2007.
The last thing Evie Linger expected to see Sunday evening was pictures on Twitter of her stolen silver 2010 Mazda 6 abandoned outside the Hub.
A Gainesville woman tried to steal merchandise from a Walmart on Friday morning and hit, screamed and spat at employees and police who tried to stop her, Gainesville Police said.
A Newberry woman shoved her way into a closed Publix on Friday night and dragged an employee by their apron through the store, Alachua County Sheriff’s Office said.
Imagine this: It’s about noon, and you’ve been feeling awful all day. No need to worry though — this happens to you every few weeks. You’re in pain, you’re tired and you’re experiencing inexplicable mood swings paired with irritability. You want so badly to curl up in a ball in your bed and lie there for the rest of the day. But you can’t.
When we think of identity theft, we often consider drained bank accounts and staggering credit scores. We think of it as a crime committed for direct and immediate financial gain, not for perceived popularity. But, similarly to what it has done to most aspects of society, social media is changing the standards of identity theft.
Junior Alfredo Perez’s roar echoed inside the Perry Indoor Facility at the Ring Tennis Complex on Sunday. He had just turned the bad fortune of a serve’s awkward bounce off the net into an aggressive backhand winner. The shot kept Perez alive in the first set tiebreaker of a highly competitive match he’d eventually win, 7-6(6), 6-2, over South Florida senior Grayson Goldin.
Every competing senior on the Florida women’s tennis team won their singles match in a 4-0 rout of Cal State Fullerton on Saturday, leaving UF’s freshmen unable to finish their matches. During Sunday’s matchup with Louisiana-Monroe at the Ring Tennis Complex in Gainesville, it was their turn to close the dual-match out.
With a flourish of a sword made of tin foil and cardboard, 55-year-old Paula Pope challenged every driver who passed the Southwest 34th Street sidewalk she was standing on.
As the final seconds ticked away in the third quarter, Florida clung to a five-point lead. With Georgia dribbling out the clock for the final shot of the period, UF guard Funda Nakkasoglu and forward Haley Lorenzen double-teamed Georgia’s Que Morrison and forced a turnover. Nakkasoglu grabbed the loose ball, raced down the court and banked in a buzzer-beating layup.
Chad Huling has seen the impacts of degenerative eye diseases first hand.
As senior Anna Danilina crouched down awaiting a serve, the home crowd at the Ring Tennis Complex began to clap in unison, a signal to Cal State Fullerton freshman Genevieve Zeidan that the match was about to come to an end.
Chris Chiozza pulled up to the right side of three-point line seven minutes into the second half and released a shot. As the ball fell through the basket to extend Florida’s lead to 15, a packed O’Connell Center erupted with cheers.
When the knock on her door came, Avnee Mistry was prepared.
Cheyenne Copenhaver, 12, pressed her face and small hands against the glass case to get a good look at what was inside. Poop.
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