Brianna Edwards

Santa Fe College extended a lucrative, five-year contract for its campus bookstore with Barnes & Noble without soliciting competitive bids, and it failed to verify that the company has been paying all commissions so far as required on bookstore sales, according to a new state audit.

On each Memorial Day since 2007, the Gainesville chapter of Veterans for Peace has placed a 12-inch ceremonial tombstone for every U.S. soldier who died in Iraq or Afghanistan.

The scorned smell that wafts from Cabot-Koppers Superfund site on Northwest 23rd Avenue in Gainesville is from the excavation of the odorous pine tar still in the ground where charcoal facilities used to be on the Cabot Corp.’s 50-acre portion of the site.

The dreams of 13 Colombian students came true when Gainesville's Eastside High School opened its doors for them to experience American culture and education for two weeks.

Each candidate was interviewed one-by-one in front of the public. If a majority vote between the seven commissioners can be reached, they will announce their pick Friday.

Cheesecake Factory has 16 other locations in Florida.