'Heart of Florida Paint Out' promotes conservation
By KATIE GALLAGHER | Apr. 13, 2008Painters looked to rural North Florida for inspiration Friday, setting up easels and paintboxes in cow pastures and clusters of palm trees.
Painters looked to rural North Florida for inspiration Friday, setting up easels and paintboxes in cow pastures and clusters of palm trees.
Florida needs nurses.
Students who salivate at the smell of tempeh and tofu will be bombarded by the aroma Tuesday.
Five local women were arrested Thursday morning for offering sex to an undercover police officer.
Even at record lows, Gov. Charlie Crist's approval rating is still respectably high.
A recent UF graduate has been crowned Miss North Carolina USA, earning her a shot at the Miss USA pageant title.
UF senior Kendra Levine is trying to make sure hunger in Gainesville is stuffed for good.
There is only one place that chocolate wafers and snow peas go together - the Edible Book Contest, where this concoction is known as "War and Peas."
Carmen "Cita" Peterson had a passion to explore. When she arrived on campus in 2006, she wanted to see it all: the campus landmarks, the city hot spots, the local charm.
Five Gainesville residents are suing a Florida rapper, his record label and a local club after they were shot during a 2006 concert.
Just a few years back, Clifton Hicks was an M1 Abrams tank operator almost 7,000 miles away in Iraq. As an active Army squad member, he'd seen buildings packed with families crumbled and burned. Watched women and children bleed and die. Killed insurgents and civilians alike.
A federal investigation into the 2006 crash of a private plane that killed three people in Gainesville has determined the cause of the crash to be inconclusive.
Fists flew at a peace protest Tuesday when two passers-by grabbed at signs and grappled with an anti-war demonstrator at West University Avenue and 13th Street.
A UF student died early Tuesday evening after she was hit by a car while riding her bike.
Tax breaks to Florida homeowners might mean a new fire assessment fee for Gainesville property owners.
Decked in their drag-queen best, local amateurs and professionals shook their stuff Monday night for a crowd of about 100 in honor of Pride Awareness Month.
"You need to be fired."
Bursts of heavy rain may have slowed the people flooding into downtown Gainesville for the SFCC Spring Arts Festival Saturday and Sunday, but it didn't stop them.
Combining rape prevention lessons with free tuxedo rental and manicures, the Alachua County Victim Services and Rape Crisis Center spent last week bringing the "Respect Your Date Contest" to local high schools.
A briefcase labeled with an explosive nickname sent part of Florida State University's campus into emergency mode Thursday afternoon, but FSU officials said the scare proved to be nothing more than a good test of its emergency resources.