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DUI Suspect To Cops: 'I Had The Runs, I Had To Go'

Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Video, Dumb Crime, Fleeing the Scene, Dui Suspect Had to Go, Florida Crime, Barnard Cato, Florida, Dumb Criminals, Gainesville, Weird Florida, Weird News News

A DUI suspect allegedly fled the scene of an accident, but only to avoid having another one. Barnard W. Cato told police that he bolted for the nea...

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Cult Southern Gothic Author And UF Prof Dies

AP | Posted 05.30.2012

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Author Harry Crews, a hell-raiser and cult favorite whose hard and crazy times inspired his extreme, but comic tales of the rural...

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How to Ruin Your Life in 14 Minutes: Or Why We Need a Serious Conversation About the Ethics of Social Media

David McMillan | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Youtube, Social Media, Racism, Twitter, Facebook, Ethics, Gainesville, Media News
David McMillan

Apart from reminding us that racism is still alive and well in the Obama Era, these Gainesville girls also remind us just how easy it is to commit reputation self-sabotage in the Social Media Era.

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Georgia Pastors' Decisions Were A Matter Of Life Or Death

AP | MIKE SCHNEIDER | Posted 04.01.2012

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ORLANDO, Fla. — Whether it's a dust storm in Arizona, a whiteout in Maine or wildfire in Florida, the call to shut down a major highway usually ...

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Two Mayo Clinic Workers Die In Forida Helicopter Crash

AP | JENNIFER KAY | Posted 02.25.2012

Read More: Helicopter, Gainesville, Clay County, Organs, University of Florida, Kathy Barbour, National Transportation Safety Board, Mayo Clinic, Crash, Miami News

MIAMI — A surgeon and technician from a Mayo Clinic in Florida flying across the northern corner of the state to retrieve a heart for transplant...

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Top Ten College Towns For Retirees

Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Ithaca, Ann Arbor, Baby Boomers, State College, Asheville, Gainesville, Eugene, Retirement, College Towns, Huff/Post50 News

For more than a decade, retired Americans that are flocking to the culture and arts scenes and state-of-the-art medical facilities offered by college ...

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Jason Cherkis

Occupy Y'all Street: Movement Grows Up Down South In Gainesville

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Bo Diddley, Video, Veterans Affairs, Ellas Anthony McDaniel, Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Gainesville, Katrina, Florida, Gainesville, Politics News

This is the first in a series of stories and short films on under-publicized Occupy sites. Stay tuned in the coming days for more from our road trip t...

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Goin' Back to Gainesville

Carolyn Scott | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Florida, Vegetarian, Dining, Healthy, Gluten Free, Vegan, Travel, Gainesville, Travel News
Carolyn Scott

If you're on a road trip, taking a tour of Florida or taking a guided tour of the local colleges for future enrollment, you gotta make it a point to dine at one or more of these yummeries!

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Grubbin' in Gainesville

Carolyn Scott | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Gainesville, Florida, Vegetarian, Dining, Healthy, Gluten Free, Vegan, Travel, Travel News
Carolyn Scott

While Gainesville is essentially a college town, they've got some nice stuff.

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Gator Takes on Cop Car, Nutcase Takes on Gator

Diana Fasanella | Posted 07.05.2011

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Diana Fasanella

The beast was either dull in the skull or wanted to take a bite out of crime when it latched on to the squad car's front bumper and wouldn't let go, even after the officer put the car in reverse.

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Koran-Burning Preacher Briefly Jailed

Reuters | Bernie Woodall | Posted 06.22.2011

Read More: Koran, Terry Jones, Aclu, Gainesville-Florida, Islam, Wayne-Sapp, Mark Somers, Afghanistan, Good Friday, Islamic-Center-of-America, Dearborn, Mosque, Koran Burning Church, Dearborn-Michigan, American Civil Liberties Union, Free Speech Zone, Florida Church Koran Burning, Florida, Gainesville, Muslim, Koran Burning, Michigan, Dove World Outreach Center, Religion News

April 23, 2011 2:01:48 AM By Bernie Woodall DEARBORN, Mich. (Reuters) - A militant Christian preacher was jailed briefly Friday after a Mich...

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Terry Jones' America Is A Dangerous Place To Be

Ethan Casey | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Terry Jones, Afghanistan, American Radicalism, Muslims in America, Religion in America, Religious Tolerance, Quran Burning, Afghanistan Riot, Islamic Radicalism, American Muslims, Gainesville Quran Burning, Florida Church Koran Burning, Christianity, Conservative Christians, Christian Extremists, Interfaith Dialogue, Gainesville, Koran Burning, Pakistani-Americans, Religion News
Ethan Casey

Terry Jones' latest antic, and the resulting deaths of innocent people in Afghanistan, leaves me feeling angry and disgusted. When will we begin taking responsibility for our own extremists?

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Our Nation's Great Disgrace

Pat LaMarche | Posted 05.25.2011

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Pat LaMarche

I'm back home now after our two weeks on the road yielding maybe five hundred brand new eye witnesses to our great national disgrace.

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Weekly Mulch: Monsanto's Mutant Alfalfa and the Feral Pig Invasion

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Roundup Ready Alfafa, Vilsack, Phmsa, Gold Mining, The Michigan Melzer, Invasive Species, Feral Pigs, Greystar, change.org, Nuclear, Monsanto, Ruce Power, Campus Progress, Gainesville, Truthout, Colombia, Mother Jones, Drummond, Feed the Future, Dioxins, Inter Press Service, New Visions for Agriculture, Green News
The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger Agribusiness giant Monsanto is strengthening its hold over the food system both in this country and abroad,...

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The Clean Energy Road to 2035 Paved by the Hard Work of Local Governments

Martin Chávez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stast of the Union, Counties, Green Jobs, Green News, Climate, President Obama, Climate Action, Los Angeles, Clean Energy, Green Energy, President Obama and Administration, Mayor Patrick Hays, Mayors, Local Governments, Epa, Energy Efficiency, County Executives, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Green Techology, State and Local Government, Sustainability, Gainesville, Cities, North Little Rock, Pegeen Hanrahan, Green News
Martin Chávez

Transforming America's energy mix to be fueled by 80 percent clean sources by 2035 will undoubtedly be a significant challenge. How challenging it will be, exactly, depends partly on the way we define "clean energy."

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University Of Florida Considers Eliminating Fall Semester For Some Students

Inside Higher Ed | Posted 05.25.2011

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The University of Florida is considering a proposal that would give incoming students the option of taking classes during the spring and summer terms ...

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US to Muslims: Please Sit at the Back of the Bus

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terry Jones, Miami University Ohio, Cultural Revolution, Pentagon, Islamophobia, Muslim Americans, St. Bart?S Episcopal Church, Extremism, 9/11, Mike Bloomberg, New York City Police Bias Unit, America, Martin Niemoller, Fanaticism, Gainesville, Jim Luce, Freedom Summer, City Hall, Terrorists, Kristallnacht, Central Synagogue, Islam, Lower Manhattan, Fundamentalist Mindset, Asma, United States, Hate Graffiti, New York City, Holy Quran, Islamic Issues, Muslims, Dove World Outreach Center, Martin Luther King, World Trade Center Protests, Segregation, Civil Rights Movement, Donald Trump, Anti-Semitism, Christianity, U.S.A., American Society for Muslim Advancement, Catholic Bashing, Torah, As-Salamu Alaykum, New York News
Jim Luce

Islamophobia is growing in the United States. Hate graffiti is now discoloring my own building here in New York City -- calling for the Holy Quran to ...

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Quran Burning Canceled

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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The leader of a small Florida church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy says he is canceling plans to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11. Pastor...

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Holder, Axelrod Condemn Church's Quran Burning Plan

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Terry Jones, Islam, David Axelrod, General David Petraeus, Christianity, Hillary Clinton, Florida, Gen. Ray Odierno, Gainesville, Dove World Outreach Center, Burn a Quran Day, Eric Holder, Politics News

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - The leader of a small Florida church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy said Wednesday he was determined to go through with his p...

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Evil in America? U.S. Fundamentalist Group to Burn Koran on 9/11

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Luce

One need not journey to the mountains of Afghanistan or Pakistan to discover evil. We have our own home-grown variety of dangerous extremism here in ...

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Florida Quran Burning Sparks Protests In Indonesia

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islamophobia, September 11, Islam, Jakarta, Indonesia, 9/11, Protests, The Dove World Outreach Center, Christianity, Quran, Florida, Koran Burning, Gainesville, World News

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Thousands of Indonesian Muslims rallied outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta on Saturday to denounce an American church's pl...

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Who the Hell Are We?

Elissa Altman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Quran, Gainesville, Newtown CT Deer Cull, Sex Shop, Ground Zero, Mosque, Federal Ignorance, Book Burning, Video, Healthy Living News
Elissa Altman

It never ceases to amaze me: just when I think we're actually starting to turn the corner where humanity is concerned, we about-face and start draggi...

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Urban Meyer Resigns: Health concerns

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Urban Meyer Leaving Florida, Urban Meyer, Urban Meyer Stepping Down, Urban Meyer Health Issues, Uf, Southeastern Conference, University of Florida, College Football, Sugar Bowl, Urban Meyer Resigns, Gainesville, Urban Mayer, Sports News

UPDATE: Urban Meyer may be taking an indefinite leave of absence, leading to a possible comeback next year. Click HERE for more. UPDATE: Urban Meye...

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