The Twitter account boasts 195 tweets and 955 followers. The Facebook page counts 5,321 people who “like” it. Yet UF’s Student Alumni Association still has not seen the expected turnout for its “Beat” Hunger campaign.
Oelrich, the incumbent Republican, sent an open letter to McGriff asking him to agree to an “immediate and mutual cease and desist of all negative campaign advertisements for the duration of this campaign.”
A two-door Honda didn't yield at a stop sign before turning on to Southwest Second Avenue, causing a woman to fall off her motor scooter.
Rainbow-colored flags adorned Bo Diddley Community Plaza downtown Saturday, as an estimated 4,000 people came through for the gay pride festival "PrideFest 2010."
The Rev. Milford Lewis Griner set up a 2-by-3 foot portrait of Rosa Parks at the Rosa Parks RTS Downtown Station Sunday afternoon.
The festival offered unlimited samples of drinks, and local restaurants provided samples of food.
About 30 protesters gathered on the steps of City Hall Thursday to publicly oppose a city ordinance that limits the amount of meals served by Gainesville’s homeless shelters.
Fresh from taping the season finale of “Jersey Shore” and going to Disney World on Thursday, according to his Twitter, DJ Pauly D will be in Gainesville tonight.
To prepare for the weekend’s Friends of the Library fall book sale, volunteers Ron Beauchamp and Peter Levine are finishing up organizing the music corner, complete with records, eight-track tapes and cassettes.
A visiting ESPNU correspondent wrecked her hotel room after she got a strange prank call early Thursday morning.
Students walking along Newell Drive on Thursday may have noticed an unusual vehicle parked behind Marston Science Library.
Meek, who is challenging Republican Marco Rubio and independent Charlie Crist, spoke to a crowd of about 40 people on Thursday in Reitz Union Room 282 about the importance of getting yourself and others to the polls.
Perry McGriff, the Democratic candidate for the Florida Senate, is taking legal action over an attack advertisement endorsed by his opponent, the incumbent Republican Sen. Steve Oelrich.
Gainesville police arrested three drivers for driving drunk early Wednesday morning, including one UF freshman.
They graduated from U.S. high schools. They're students at U.S. universities. They're fighting overseas for this country. And they're not allowed to be here.
Behind an unlit neon sign on 43rd Street, there’s a 25-year-old Gainesville institution. Paul Cakmis owns the place. He’s 61, round like Santa Claus but without the beard. When things were good — before the crash, the layoffs and the lists — the Gator football team would come and eat at the 43rd Street Deli.
Local chapters of numerous national charities, including the Ronald McDonald House of Gainesville, have been finding new ways to remain active in the community, despite a decline in donations.
Two west Gainesville schools were temporarily locked down Tuesday as the county sheriff’s office searched for the man who robbed a local store at gunpoint and has yet to be caught.
The Alachua County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a man who pistol-whipped a Walgreens pharmacist and made off with Oxycontin and Adderall.
Three sites are designated for early voting: the Millhopper Branch Library, the Tower Road Branch Library and the County Administration Building. Carpenter estimated that up to 40 percent of voters in the county will vote early this year in person or with an absentee ballot.
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