When an apartment developer planned to cut down a 250-year-old live oak, the neighbor took a stand.
A woman reported that she was sexually battered Saturday night near Fraternity Row, University Police said.
The city will expand their facility, which was built for a population half of Gainesville's current size.
The former employee shot at the owner three times and hit the man in his arm.
Two men tried to rob a delivery driver for cash. All they ended up with was a pizza.
The empowerment zone will offer services like tutoring, mental health counseling and job training for parents.
After a recently out transgender woman had a slur spray painted on her door, the Newberry community is helping her out.
“This is a holiday that is typically celebrated with family, so for students who can’t go home, this is their family,” a Rabbi said.
A man was arrested after he drank a Coca-Cola without paying for it, and later found to have stolen bikes from Walmart, GPD said.
The day after Donald Trump became president, I was walking near Turlington Plaza and heard a commotion. There was a large group of people, somewhere between 100 and 150, circled around a few individuals wielding megaphones near the Turlington Potato. One megaphoned man wore a “Make America Great Again” cap, and the other three or four who stood on the opposite side of the circle were evidently anti-Trumpers. Some people in the crowd held posters with witty political jabs or slogans. The rest were recording the spectacle for Snapchat or Instagram.
The app shows people how to perform chest compressions until an emergency responder can come.
After years of back-and-forth between the police union and the City Commission, the latest contract wage proposal was voted down
The man told officers he ran away because of his warrant
The bike in question was a Schwinn adult tricycle outfitted with an electric motor.
Gainesville Police Department currently has 22 vacancies for officers as contract negotiations for officers on the force are underway. The city and police union are meeting Friday, and salaries and benefits are on the table.
Residents can opt into an emergency system similar to UF's alert system
The new website gives users a questionnaire to see what group they're best suited to.
UF opened the state's first horse acupuncture treatment center in a town near Ocala, combining eastern and western medicine.
The international student enrollment dropped by about 400 two years ago and hasn't fully recovered.
Simmons reflected on what she's gotten done, but also looked toward the future
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