Police officers expect few problems over weekend
By KATIE GALLAGHER | Nov. 1, 2007For people who don't want to get arrested during Homecoming, University Police Department Lt. Robert Wagner said to remember three things:
For people who don't want to get arrested during Homecoming, University Police Department Lt. Robert Wagner said to remember three things:
As Gainesville prepares for an influx of visitors on Homecoming weekend, so do local businesses.
Large portions of University Avenue will be closed today for Gator Gallop and the Homecoming parade.
While Gainesville residents may be decked out in orange and blue on Homecoming weekend, not every event in town will be about football.
Donavaun Horne is 17, but he knows more about his future than most 40-year-olds.
For the first time in about eight years, Bread of the Mighty Food Bank does not have enough food to distribute to all of the nonprofit organizations that need it.
Gainesville Police Department officers charged two women Tuesday morning with stealing nearly ,10,000 worth of jewelry at The Oaks Mall from CJ Jewelers.
With trick-or-treaters on the streets and parties all over town, Halloween could mean extra work for police.
The Gainesville City Commission voted to approve the long-debated Hatchet Creek Development in East Gainesville late Monday night.
Cars crowded the entranceway of the Morningside Nature Center on Saturday evening, forcing some to wait in the turning lane on State Road 26.
The Bartram, an environmentally friendly apartment complex expected to open next year, will be one of the first of its kind in the United States.
Broken windows, lost roofs and even lost houses are common scenes for Floridians during hurricane season, but UF hopes to help prevent losses by teaching people how to protect their homes.
A UF student was arrested Thursday afternoon while protesting outside the Cole Bros. Circus.
Surrounded by plastic pumpkins spewing dry-ice smoke, graduate students from UF's chemistry department educated children about science Saturday by making slime, forming "spider webs" and crushing soda cans.
Bats were recast from scary creatures to ecological superheroes Saturday at the Third Annual Florida Lubee Bat Festival.
A 13-year-old girl was hit and killed by a car in northwest Gainesville on Saturday night.
UF and Shands HealthCare officials apologized Thursday to the family of a 3-year-old patient who died at Shands at UF from an overdose of an injected chemical earlier this month.
November is Friendship Month in Alachua County, but that's not the only thing to celebrate.
By the light of the moon, ghosts from the 1870s will walk the earth again, telling stories about 19th-century life at the fourth annual Ghost Walk.
Blood donors aren't used to seeing blood smeared on LifeSouth's windows and walls.