From 1,200 people running from a plaza to police responding to reports of gunfire, then law enforcement determining what happened and what to do about a mass of lost property, more than an hour of chaos and response ensued Oct. 9 at the University of Florida. WUFT News has outlined …
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The University of Florida banned a graduate student who is a teaching assistant from campus for three years after campus police accused him of vandalizing a pro-Israel sign by a predominantly Jewish fraternity. Simon Nicholas Lowry, 24, of Gainesville is facing two misdemeanor counts of criminal mischief involving the incident …
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The first substantial videos to emerge from a panicked stampede at the University of Florida during a nighttime vigil for Israelis killed in the Hamas attacks show waves of terrified students sprinting out of their shoes, discarding phones and water bottles and colliding with startled and confused police officers who …
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Resli Ward is no stranger to advocating against gun violence. Five years ago, she and four other Gainesville teenagers shared their concerns with a Florida congressman. But as she prepared her remarks this time, the University of Florida freshman grappled with the weight of the issue. “When I think too …
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Police are searching for a young man who broke into a home near the University of Florida’s sorority houses in the middle of the night this week and sexually attacked someone. The crime occurred in the area of 400 SW 10th Street, just east of the university’s campus and only …
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