Starting as soon as Thursday afternoon, masks will be required in all indoor spaces in Alachua County except for private residences, by order of the Alachua County Commission, setting up another potential showdown with Gov. Ron DeSantis.
An inevitable day has arrived in Gainesville: the last day of business for Leonardo's By the Slice, which will close permanently on Wednesday at 9 p.m.
Four Central Florida residents have gone to federal court to block a new law that would revoke the Walt Disney Co.’s authority to self-govern its Central Florida Entertainment empire.
A Deerfield Beach man sent all 62 superintendents in Florida a request to ban the Bible in protest of House Bill 1467. The bill is aimed at increasing scrutiny of school library books and instructional materials.
All trespassing charges have been dropped against Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried and 10 other abortion rights protesters, including the Senate Democratic Leader Lauren Book, after they were arrested April 3 in front of Tallahassee City Hall.
"Today’s decision is a ringing endorsement of the critical importance of faculty free speech and academic freedom to the health of our democracy," said David O'Neil, a lawyer for the professors.
So far, the state has paid nearly $112,000 to the law firms to represent DeSantis and other Florida officials in a class action lawsuit. This is on top of the nearly $1.6 million paid for the flights.
The Buchholz Bobcats (
@BuchholzFB
), led by UF commit QB
@c_whit115
, routed the Trinity Catholic Celtics in a preseason game in Ocala on Friday night.
📸: Alan Youngblood / Special to the Ocala Star-Banner
An undercount of hundreds of thousands of Florida residents in the 2020 census could short-change the state from getting federal funding and may have cost it an additional congressional seat, according to a survey the U.S. Census Bureau released Thursday.
The accrediting authority for colleges and universities in the South is asking UF to explain why it denied three of its professors' requests to serve as paid experts in a voting rights lawsuit against the state
Not your typical patient! 🐊
The University of Florida veterinary school helped Brooke, a 376-pound alligator from the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park who had been seen rolling his head intermittently.
📸: Sarah Carey / UF
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Just 76 days after leading his football team to the program's first state crown, Cornelius Ingram guides Hawthorne girls' basketball team to a state title.
University of Miami head football coach Mario Cristobal touched down on Buchholz's Jessie B. Heard Field to discuss perspective recruits on Jan. 26, 2023.
Florida's Erin Jackson won the gold medal Sunday morning in the 500-meter speedskate at the Beijing Olympics.
Jackson's time was 37.04.
Jackson is the first American woman to win the event in 28 years, since Bonnie Blair won in 1994.
LIVE UPDATES: Check out our live updates and photos from outside the Trump campaign rally in Ocala where thousands of supporters have been lining for hours.
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The Gator has landed! Billy Napier and his family got their first taste of The Swamp today, and Florida
#Gators
fans gave them a warm and raucous welcome.
📸Brad McClenny/The Gainesville Sun
Updates from Napier's first day:
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#gogators
The UF urology department normally schedules about 40 vasectomy procedures and consults a month. When Roe v. Wade was overturned, 26 vasectomies were scheduled that week alone.
National news is nice, for big stuff. But when you want to know about your mayor, your city government, the new restaurants in your neighborhood, or what the people around you are doing, check out your local newspaper.
The committee will review the specific academic freedom standard cited but can extend its focus if evidence of other compliance concerns comes up, the letter stated.
Florida keeps pulling off upsets! The
#Gators
held No. 11
#UGA
scoreless in the last 4:30 and finished off the comeback win.
Kelly Rae Finley's squad was coming off a blowout win over the No. 7 Tennessee
#LadyVols
on Thursday.
📸: Joshua L. Jones / Athens Banner-Herald
Just like he did in the 800-meter free, Florida Gator Bobby Finke came from behind on the final length of the 1500 free to win his second gold medal in Tokyo.
Less than 20 hours before Hurricane Ian made landfall, one Gainesville man set out on a 400-mile mission and drove directly into the path of the storm to save his grandmother.
"Operation Rescue Mimi" had begun.