With just over a minute left in the game, Chris Chiozza stood behind the three-point line with the ball in his hands. He gently rocked the ball back and forth, lulling his defender to sleep.
When a student told Lauren Marlowe she felt alone, the eighth-grade English teacher saw herself.
A man was arrested Monday after stealing and pawning at least nine laptops from his place of work since November, Gainesville Police said.
UF’s Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art received a $282,000 grant to help the museum continue publishing Asian art manuscripts.
Hannah Marjon was tired of buying overpriced swimsuits that didn’t fit, so she decided to create her own, “Baywatch” style.
Gainesville residents will soon be able to learn the art of beekeeping.
Stephanie Schroeder braced herself as the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Betsy DeVos as the secretary of education.
One word.
When Karlee Smith saw the court of the O’Connell Center open up in front of her, revealing a lair of hungry alligators, she lifted her phone to record the experience on Snapchat.
Who has watched a cellphone commercial that advertised limited texting and data? Who has been upset at Chick-fil-A for not being open on Sundays or Chipotle for not being open all night? If Netflix or Hulu had a time limit — you could only watch a certain number of shows per week — would people subscribe? Would there be protests if Amazon imposed a delivery ban past a certain time or if you ordered multiple packages within a month’s period? Or if buffets and “have it your way” food services became extinct? What if the internet shut off globally at 10 p.m. every night, what then? How would we respond?
On this day and age of fast and constant information, news and important facts tend to get diluted. After all, most people turn to Facebook for news, scrolling through their feed and clicking on whatever bit of news interests them. Of course, there are positives to this new way of getting information. News travels a lot faster and is more accessible. People can do research on almost any topic by just sliding open their phone and pull up the internet. This information can be accessed at one’s own pace, convenience and frequency.
As the Florida lacrosse team walked off the field on Jan. 14 in Bradenton, it had a lot to be proud of.
The No. 3 Gators performed well on Day 1 of the Sea Best Invitational, starting in the early morning and finishing late into the afternoon with a hole-in-one, a sweep of the top-three spots and an overall team lead after playing 36 holes on the day.
Calm, composed and poised: This is how coach Roland Thornqvist described his team Monday after its trying victory over No. 3 Pepperdine on Saturday.
If you were there, listening to John Calipari speak, if you heard the pure annoyance, the dulled frustration in his voice, you would have realized it.
A 23-year-old Gainesville man died after a car ran him over and dragged him several feet at The Ridge at Gainesville apartments Saturday, Gainesville Police said.
To Carey Cavanaugh, U.S.Russian relations are like a Rolling Stones song.
In his nearly eight decades of life, former Gainesville mayor Perry McGriff Jr. seemed to leave his mark wherever he went.
All five players on the court for Florida sprinted to the defensive end of the floor, positioned themselves into a 2-3 zone and fiercely slapped the hardwood of the O’Connell Center with the palms of their hands.
It was the end of a long film session.
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