Local restaurant closes doors for good
By Kelly Price | May 14, 2012Landlord Tom Mowry of Equilease of Gainesville Inc. evicted the restaurant and sports bar’s owners last week for not paying their rent.
Landlord Tom Mowry of Equilease of Gainesville Inc. evicted the restaurant and sports bar’s owners last week for not paying their rent.
As Gainesville residents and UF students prepare for summer, lovebugs are out in full force for breeding season.
A fight early Wednesday morning left one man in Shands with life-threatening injuries.
A man set fire to a stack of newspapers early Thursday morning in the back of the delivery van for the Independent Florida Alligator.
Florida’s state attorney announced Monday the state would drop charges against one of the 10 members of Alpha Phi Alpha who were charged with hazing in January.
A Gainesville worker was taken to the Trauma Center at Shands Hospital after he fell into a drainage basin on Southwest 75th Street at about 5 p.m.
An investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement determined that the Florida Highway Patrol should have communicated more to prevent the deadly Interstate 75 crashes that killed 11 people on Jan. 29.
Gainesville Police are still looking for a man who raped a woman and left her in the woods Wednesday night.
Two ongoing court cases involving Gainesville residents highlight potential issues about how much information realtors should tell buyers about the Cabot/Koppers Superfund site.
In the ticket window of Gator Cinemas, off West Newberry Road next to the Oaks Mall, sits an 8-by-12-inch sign with these words: “Renovations are underway. Please bear with us.” They are typed next to a cartoon grizzly bear.
In a conference call with student reporters Tuesday from Air Force One, Obama discussed a measure to keep student loan interest rates low.
The Bartram apartments, located at 2337 SW Archer Road, notified its residents in March 2011 that it would close indefinitely because the complex had to undergo repairs.
Temperatures flirted with daily record lows Monday and Tuesday.
Our daily, scheduled lives are strung together by a series of contracts between friends, strangers and ourselves — contracts that we seem hesitant to honor.
William and his mother, Emogene, argued in the living room around 10 p.m. He asked for money to buy crack cocaine and beer, police say. Emogene said no. So, William beat her. Then, he stabbed her in the face with an ice pick, four times.
Police responded to a 911 call by a man who went to his friend’s apartment and found him.
As of 11 a.m. Friday, the cause of the fire at 306 SW 16th Ave. was unknown, said Gainesville Fire Rescue District Chief Pat Lewis.
Soon after 10 p.m. Saturday, about five minutes after the crash, officers and paramedics responded to the scene at the entrance of Fairmont Oaks apartments, 316 SW 62nd Blvd.
The UF Supreme Court ruled Thursday night that campaign-like activity is allowed throughout the year.
The Gainesville City Commission approved a possible new design for the Gainesville Police Department Headquarters and Physical Training Facility during a meeting Thursday.