City officials, press and community members honored newly elected city commissioners Thursday afternoon as they were sworn into office.
As students piled out of bars early Saturday morning, the day was just beginning for dozens of volunteers who unloaded cardboard tombstones for the annual Memorial Mile.
Former UF basketball player Joakim Noah was arrested early Sunday morning and charged with cannabis possession and an open container violation.
A sketch of the man who attacked and raped a woman jogging in Haile Plantation Wednesday was released this weekend.
Despite dreary weather, festivities for the ninth annual Lag B'Omer barbecue at the Lubavitch-Chabad Jewish Student and Community Center were lively Thursday night.The center combined the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer with the 60th anniversary of Israel's statehood, celebrating with a kosher barbecue, pony rides, face painting, crafts and live music from the Gainesville Chutzpa Band. Rabbi Berl Goldman said about 150 people attended the celebration and estimated that $300 was raised from ticket sales.Lag B'Omer is a Jewish holiday celebrating the lives of sages Rabbi Akiva, who promoted Jewish unity during the Roman occupation of Israel, and Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, who revealed the mystical secrets of the Torah, called Kabbalah.The holiday, celebrated on the 33rd day after the second day of Passover, also represents a break in the mourning period between Passover and Shavuot. It marks the end of a plague that affected Akiva's disciples.In Israel, thousands of Jews march through the streets in parades and demonstrations during the holiday.
The String Kings plan on grabbing their guitars and entertaining any Gainesville resident who decides to come out to a free Friday concert.
A murder trial began this week for a former Shands at UF nurse charged with killing a woman in November 2005 by injecting her with a powerful anesthetic.
Though Eileen Friedman has multiple sclerosis, she hasn't let her illness slow her down.
In a matter of weeks, the question, "Dude, where's my bus?" will finally be answered.
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A UF physician resigned Monday after university privacy officials discovered he gave away a computer containing the confidential information of about 1,900 patients.
Slithering, scaly snakes are populating the state by the thousands and swallowing alligators as they go.
The lawsuit against Einstein's Notes, a note-selling business run by student employees, for allegedly selling UF professors' lecture notes without permission has continued to thicken, albeit quietly.
This Memorial Day weekend, Gainesville motorists might notice something a little different about Eighth Avenue.
A woman was attacked and raped Wednesday morning while jogging in Haile Plantation, according to local deputies.
Watching the recent season finale of "Survivor," Donna Smith discovered a way to achieve reality stardom herself.
The Gainesville Police Department broke up a group of fighting juveniles Saturday near Waldo Road.
Some local businesses think the Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce's economic stimulus plan is right on the money.
A Gainesville Police Department officer who resigned May 9 remains part of an ongoing GPD internal investigation.
Police arrested a Gainesville man early Monday morning after he admitted to looking at women through their bedroom windows and taking pictures of one of the women when she was partially nude.
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