Kelly Grosfield

Campus ambassadors of The Gift of Life Marrow Registry are in Turlington Plaza this week to encourage students to register as bone marrow donors. Ambassador Edward Datz said UF had a match just last month,"so that proves that joining the registry and getting swabbed really can make a difference."

More than 150 people gathered in Turlington Plaza on Monday night in response to the shootings of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and others.

Interfaith Emergency Services in Marion County hopes to begin offering expanded health services for homeless and low-income residents by early August in what was formerly the Ocala Women's Center. The shelter's recent purchase of the women's center means it can begin offering primary medical, dental and counseling services as part of the Hope Clinic, a nonprofit, free clinic for the county's uninsured.

Nearly a thousand people banded together at Gainesville's City Hall last night to fight back against homophobia and Islamaphobia in the wake of the most deadly shooting in America's history.

The University of Florida's Pride Student Union and Islam On Campus organized a joint march to the candle-light vigil held downtown at city hall.

A donation of $1.5 million dollars will be given to Alachua County Public Schools over the next three years to help the district provide mental health services to four elementary schools considered to be high-needs schools. The grant, which was donated anonymously, will help provide additional mental health services to children at Lake Forest Elementary, Idylwild Elementary, Metcalfe Elementary and Rawlings Elementary.

After the body of a missing St. Augustine priest was found in Georgia, the community is mourning his death.

Marion County will soon see a 1 percent sales tax increase.

The stage, as well as the rest of Bo Diddley Plaza, will be open to the public for the first time in a year on Thursday.