The Gainesville Police Department said Wednesday it suspended a trainee accused in court of holding a knife to the neck of a 10-year-old child. Larry Reshawn Prunty III, 28, of Gainesville pleaded not guilty to an initial complaint of felony child abuse. He was arrested Tuesday. The name of the …
Read More »Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • WUFT News: Malachowsky Hall remains closed for students despite grand opening Friday. “Students approached the new building Monday morning, often looking for new study spaces or to tour the locations of their …
Read More »Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • Fresh Take Florida: Panic in the plaza: New videos show chaos of stampede at UF peace vigil, reveal police secretly investigating suicide-bomb threat. “The first substantial videos to emerge from a panicked …
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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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After months of listening to a dog whining and yelping in distress from what they believed was physical abuse, neighbors banded together to call police on behalf of a vulnerable 10-month-old Rottweiler. Its owner was in jail Friday facing a felony charge of animal abuse. Gainesville police arrested Nicole Dazah …
Read More »Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • WUFT News: University of Florida inaugurates former U.S. senator Ben Sasse as 13th president. “Sasse said he was focused on the future of higher education – and the role in it for …
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Newly inaugurated UF president describes some goals Thursday, 4:20 p.m.: Newly inaugurated UF President Ben Sasse shared some goals for his presidency Thursday. Practical college majors will be even more practical, as the university refines its core curriculum classes so that students “wrestle with big questions,” he said. He also …
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More than two dozen cups of ice water line the counter as the baristas prepare for the 2:45 p.m. rush each school day at the Starbucks on Northwest 13th Street in Gainesville. A three-minute walk away, the dismissal bell rings at Gainesville High School, and many students pile onto the …
Read More »Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • WUFT News: A difficult path: How volunteers, waste workers save old books from going to the landfill. “It’s been almost a week since Alachua County’s Friends of the Library fall book sale …
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No car is in the house’s driveway, only gravel dampened by rain. The living room is minimalistic, with a white leather couch backed against the wall and an old-fashioned clock hanging above it. The busted door does not close. The vehicles outside zoom over the wet asphalt, and it sounds …
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