Bike, hike trail ready for visitors WHITE SPRINGS - Those who think that Florida is entirely flat haven't been to Big Shoals State Park. Beneath the protective blanket of towering pines and lush palmettos lies a maze of steep slopes and ravines along the Suwannee River. Big Shoals Public Lands contains 3,772 acres of preserve and [...]
Construction of 544 additional beds is more than halfway complete at the Lake City Correctional Facility. The expansion will add to the 350 beds the minimum to medium security prison currently has. Construction started in June of last year and is scheduled to be completed by the middle of April. Most of the inmates designated for the [...]
New card has stronger identity protection features. Florida recently released a drivers license with a new layout and a pretty beach scene with state seal holograms. Yet more has been done to make the license than just making it prettier. The new license has stronger identity protection features such as three layers of security that aids [...]
"Praise the Lord! It's good to be here," cried Audré Washington as she stood in the Olivet Missionary Baptist Church pulpit Monday. A chorus of "amens" followed in response from the congregation and community members in attendance. Washington's organization, the North East Florida Leadership Council, sponsored the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Service to memorialize King's life, [...]
Mosley High School pairs sports with spirituality Every Friday morning, a diverse group of students gather in the A. Crawford Mosley High School gymnasium to start off the weekend with a warm up. Swimmers stretch their arms over members of the football team and all bow their heads to think about the "game" ahead and the [...]
Welcome to Gainesville, home of perpetual roam towing. Ask any longtime resident or student and he or she will tell you that coming to Gainesville requires extra attention when it comes to something as simple as parking. "Towing is the one thing that makes me hate Gainesville sometimes," says sophomore Analiz Velazquez. "I accept it as [...]
When you think of Tejano music today, it is hard not to think of Jennifer Peña. The young singer burst onto the scene in 1995 as the youngest artist to pay tribute to the late Tejano queen, Selena. Although Peña started singing since the tender age of five, she never thought of it as a career [...]
As dusk spreads a misty blanket across the dingy green buildings of Gatorwood Apartments, a small group of students climb the narrow steps leading to apartment 1908. Dog-eared books in one hand, and notebooks full of original poetry in the other, they meet in the two-bedroom apartment that’s adorned with old street signs from the University [...]
Latin music fans everywhere are mourning the loss of one of Regional Mexican music’s finest and most promising stars. Adan “Chalino” Sanchez, 19, died in tragic automobile accident on March 27 in Sinaloa, Mexico. The singer was on his way to a performance in Puerto Vallarta. Sanchez was the son of renowned corrido singer and songwriter, [...]
Yes you know we have love for apple. They are kind of busy making 5,000 versions of the ipod and opening up apple stores everywhere to remember to include us in their celebrity playlist section of the iTunes Music Store. So we did it for them with this, our first installment our iTemas playlist. Don't worry, Mr. jobs. we'll [...]