Liana Handler

The Gainesville chapter of Stonewall Sports League, a 21+ nonprofit sports organization, hosted kickball and trivia nights, providing a space for queer Gainesville residents to play sports in a noncompetitive fashion once a week during its seasons.

It was the scream heard ‘round Gainesville and, perhaps, all of collegiate sports. A thunderous clangor rang out from the more than 11,000 fans wedged together at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center. The national championship returned to Gainesville for the first time since 2014, and UF students greeted it with a deafening roar.

As Florida trailed by 10 points in the Elite Eight on Saturday, it was guard Walter Clayton Jr. that stepped up. Knocking down two consecutive 3s, including one that gave Florida the lead in the final minute, he cemented himself among collegiate basketball’s stars.

Wilks faced murder and manslaughter charges in the 2021 killing of her boyfriend, Brian Brown, and a guilty verdict could have meant life in prison.

Wilks, 32, testified for two and a half hours on the second and final day of testimony before Judge William Davis in Eighth Judicial Circuit Court.

Jaden Rashada’s lawsuit against Florida head football coach Billy Napier and others for breach of contract has the potential to kickstart similar cases.

About 30 people, including pastors, nuns, and volunteers from the Mexican consulate in Orlando, attended a candlelight vigil in Apopka for the eight Mexican farmworkers who died Tuesday when the bus they were in overturned after it was sideswiped by a pickup truck driver.

Eight bus passengers were killed and over 40 injured Tuesday when a bus crashed on State Road 40.

In 2021, the City of Gainesville planted a variety of trees to create an area for people to come and pick fruit–without strings attached.