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The University of Connecticut and Vanguard University tested potential new NCAA rules at their exhibition game Nov. 8. The rules, which include using men's basketballs, a farther 3-point arc and a shorter shot clock, could cause significant changes to the University of Florida's women's basketball team and other college basketball teams.

The former Ohio governor is visiting next week.

Jessica Baker, 46, of Newberry learned her love of politics from her father, who taught her to think critically about national and local issues.

Stetson Cooper, a democratic socialist living in Republican Ocala, has no qualms expressing his political views in the primarily red town.

Poe earned 7,158 votes, totaling 61.8 percent. Adrian Hayes-Santos was also re-elected Tuesday night.

Rebecca Smith, 38, and her tech startup Thrifty won the $5,000 “Rising Star Startup of the Year” award at the 4th annual CelebrateGNV on Feb 2. The event, spearheaded by non-profit organization startGNV, highlights the past year’s successes of local Gainesville tech startups and businesses.

On this weekend of the late Tom Petty’s 72nd birthday, Heartwood Soundstage of Gainesville hosted and organized Tom Petty Weekend, a celebration of the…

Florida Gator fans already have a reason to love Tom Petty; the lyrics of his 1989 hit “I Won’t Back Down” echo through Ben Hill Griffin Stadium during every home football game. Now fans have more reason to love the late Gainesville native and rock icon after several donations to the community have been made in his honor. A gift of $25,000 was made to the Cade Museum on Petty’s behalf by his daughter, Adria Petty, in October. Jennifer Dempsey, the marketing manager for the Cade Museum, said the donation will go toward Operation Full Steam, an outreach program serving students in Title I schools in Alachua County.

She wakes up to a pitch-black sky, hours before arriving at the cancer center. The sun still hasn’t risen by the time she’s dressed in scrubs, driving to…

UF’s shrinking orchard is an emblem of the statewide groves its researchers are trying to save.