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More than 1,200 people visited Celebration Pointe in Gainesville on Saturday to celebrate the Indian Festival of Light, Diwali, for the first time ever.
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The Gainesville Fear Garden: a UF psychologist’s Halloween experiment — of love?
On a fateful September evening in 2005, Lawton Swan and Katherine Swan attended Universal Studios’s Halloween Horror Nights — and with high hopes. It was one of their first dates. Lawton also grew up a horror fanatic, infatuated with haunted houses, scary movies and existentialism. He knew it was going …
Read More »Amid Ian’s wounds, Jews see healing, renewal in Yom Kippur
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Even though a destructive hurricane tore through his community just days earlier, nothing was going to stop Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz from holding prayer services Tuesday night for the start of the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. Throughout a southwest Florida devastated by Hurricane Ian, Jews …
Read More »Battle of the bands raises over $25,000 to help end homelessness in Gainesville
An exhilarating atmosphere filled The Wooly on Friday night as about 200 attendees sang and danced while local bands rocked out under the dim red glow of stage lights.
Read More »Police: Car on fire, with only 3 tires driving through darkness near UF campus
Imagine this: A witness called police to report a silver station wagon on fire with only three tires being driven along one of the city’s roads that border the University of Florida campus. When police tried to pull the car over, the driver didn’t immediately stop. Authorities accuse 23-year-old Adrian Vincent Hernandez of Gainesville of fleeing police, resisting an officer and driving with a suspended license. It wasn’t clear whether the driver was missing a spare tire or didn’t know how to change one. Police said Hernandez told them he didn’t stop because he just wanted to get home in the hours after midnight Sunday.
Read More »Ticketed for speeding 116 mph, UF student tells trooper he didn’t want to be late for class
Ticketed for speeding 116 mph on a crowded stretch of Interstate 75 in this college town, a University of Florida student told the trooper the reason for his fast driving: He didn’t want to be late for class on the first day of the fall semester. Just his luck, he …
Read More »‘It’s Wakanda’: Inside a Gainesville public charter school defying the achievement gap
The school's students, nearly all Black, earned the highest learning gains in the district and outperformed the county's white students on the state assessment.
Read More »Gators quarterback Richardson says he gave up free sports car, apologizes in new court-ordered essay for speeding 105 mph
Florida Gators quarterback Anthony Richardson told a judge in a court-ordered essay that he no longer drives the sports car in which he was ticketed for speeding 105 mph and apologized for risking the lives of others while letting down the university.
Read More »The Point, June 9, 2022: Sentencing in hit-and-run case delayed after driver’s hospitalization
Joshua Figueroa was in the hospital Wednesday and not in a courtroom to receive his sentence.
Read More »Gators quarterback Richardson to write essay on 105 mph speeding ticket, pay $349 fine
A judge on Wednesday gave a homework assignment to Florida Gators quarterback Anthony Richardson – an essay explaining his reason for speeding 105 mph and what he learned after spending 12 hours in traffic school. Alachua County Court Judge Meshon Rawls also fined Richardson $349 after his lawyer entered a …
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