“You don't have to wait for the shipping container,” one participant said.

Feet thump and maneuvering bodies slide against the royal blue matts of the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Gainesville training studio.  Students jump, crawl and flip through different exercises while professor Ricardo Rezende, a world champion Brazilian jiujitsu fighter and black belt, guides the class through different movements and techniques. Then, students …

The open house event at 4700 SW 58th Drive ran from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. and featured about 45 vendors selling plants, orchids and food.

Some of the prizewinners, members of the Writers Alliance of Gainesville and local literary enthusiasts will read and discuss this year’s edition.

Since the onset of the pandemic in 2020, Collin Austin, the 39-year-old founder of New Scooters 4 Less, saw his business's scooter sales drop.

On a summer tour of rural Iran, Foad Seyed Mohammadi came upon a man who had no hands. He saw the man in a bustling bazaar in a western village near Sardasht, not far from the Iraqi border.