The famed six-toed cats at Ernest Hemingway's island home aren't going anywhere.
In a new study, occupational psychologists suggest that part of the reason men make more than women is because they hold a "traditional" view: Men earn a living; women stay home.
A new website aims to hook up people with lawyers who will take their grievances to court. Is this what America needs?
The sabal palm, Florida's state tree, is under attack by a microscopic killer that has scientists stumped
No one could even remember a shark attack along this resort-studded stretch of Mexican coast popular with surfers and Hollywood's elite. Many of the large predators had been pulled from the ocean by fishermen
Dear FSB: I sold my small, family-owned business recently but retained a business loan on the equipment we owned. I have a lien on the equipment and personal guarantees from the new owners that they will continue paying the loan, but I'm considering selling the note. Where can I find out information about doing this? What are the pros and cons of selling a business loan? Thank you.
A shark-attack death in the Bahamas raises the issue of who is responsible when thrill vacations go awry: the tourist or the tour operator?
New research says immigrants, far from being responsible for rising crime rates, are less likely to get in trouble with the law
Food and Drug Administration experts on Friday supported a certain type of over-the-counter cold medicine as effective, despite opposition from pharmacists who claim otherwise, agency officials said.
About 65% of U.S. law enforcement uses Tasers regularly, but no regulations govern the use of the controversial weapon
The famed six-toed cats at Ernest Hemingway's island home aren't going anywhere.
In a new study, occupational psychologists suggest that part of the reason men make more than women is because they hold a "traditional" view: Men earn a living; women stay home.
A new website aims to hook up people with lawyers who will take their grievances to court. Is this what America needs?
The sabal palm, Florida's state tree, is under attack by a microscopic killer that has scientists stumped
No one could even remember a shark attack along this resort-studded stretch of Mexican coast popular with surfers and Hollywood's elite. Many of the large predators had been pulled from the ocean by fishermen
Dear FSB: I sold my small, family-owned business recently but retained a business loan on the equipment we owned. I have a lien on the equipment and personal guarantees from the new owners that they will continue paying the loan, but I'm considering selling the note. Where can I find out information about doing this? What are the pros and cons of selling a business loan? Thank you.
A shark-attack death in the Bahamas raises the issue of who is responsible when thrill vacations go awry: the tourist or the tour operator?
New research says immigrants, far from being responsible for rising crime rates, are less likely to get in trouble with the law
Food and Drug Administration experts on Friday supported a certain type of over-the-counter cold medicine as effective, despite opposition from pharmacists who claim otherwise, agency officials said.
About 65% of U.S. law enforcement uses Tasers regularly, but no regulations govern the use of the controversial weapon
A University of Florida student who was shocked with a Taser after persistently questioning Sen. John Kerry will avoid criminal charges
Things are heating up at the Swamp. That's what they call their stadium down here in Gainesville, Fla. And the University of Florida Gators football team - defending national champs - hasn't lost a game on its home turf in more than two years.
CNNU is a feature that provides student perspectives on news and trends from colleges across the United States.
Two University of Florida police officers were placed on leave Tuesday after using an electronic stun gun to subdue a student at a campus forum. Read an account of the incident from a student who was there.
Two University of Florida police officers were placed on leave Tuesday after using an electronic stun gun to subdue a student questioning Sen. John Kerry at a campus forum.
It has been 48 hours since college student Andrew Meyer was stunned with a Taser during a forum with Sen. John Kerry, and some students are still in shock over what happened.
Two University of Florida police officers were on leave with pay Wednesday as university officials tried to sort out what caused them to use an electronic stun gun to subdue a student, the school's president said.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Former NBA player and University of Florida standout Vernon Maxwell was jailed without bond in Alachua County for a probation violation, according to jail records.
David Osier, an editor who spent the last years of a distinguished career sharing his enthusiasm for journalism and his passion for excellence with colleagues at CNN.com, died Sunday in Atlanta after a battle with cancer. He was 62.
A new study says a simple state law that revokes drunk drivers' licenses has a significant deterring effect -- and can save 800 lives a year
No one was hurt more in the Billy Donovan saga than the Orlando Magic, who lost face, lost a coach, lost momentum for their new arena, and lost a second-round draft pick to pry their Plan B, Stan Van Gundy, away from the Miami Heat. Yet, as the dust settles on this seven-day ordeal, with Donovan expressing his deep regret for what transpired, you can't help but feel for Anthony Grant -- even if Grant isn't asking for sympathy. To an equal degree that the Magic were scarred, Grant was tantalized.
SIOC has uncovered a series of (fictitious) e-mails between University of Florida basketball coach Billy Donovan and his longtime mentor Rick Pitino from the past week or so ...
Billy Donovan and the Orlando Magic were on the verge of officially terminating the coach's five-year, $27.5 million contract Tuesday, a process that would allow Donovan to return to Florida and the Magic to move forward with hiring Stan Van Gundy, their preferred Plan B.
Now you can one-hand that coffee-and-doughnut breakfast.
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Private equity buyouts keep breaking records, raising concerns that the buyout boom may be near a peak - and that investors will get hurt when the party comes to an end.
The face of a partially mummified baby boy, wrapped in newspaper since 1957, is haunting -- chilling even. Imagine the shock when a suitcase was opened two weeks ago in a storage locker by a woman in Florida, and there it was, a mummified corpse with his umbilical cord still attached.
1. The New York Daily News is reporting that Barry Bonds failed an amphetamine -- "greenies" -- test last season and initially blamed it on a substance he took from the locker of a teammate. Bonds insists he thought they were skittles.
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- When the doors swung open to Florida's locker room about 45 minutes after Monday night's BCS National Championship Game, several Gators were busy filming their own mini-cam documentaries of the scene. Safety Tony Joiner delivered a monologue in front of one of them.
Most people think the holiday shopping season is about the big crowds and big bargains. But there's one more seasonal hallmark that doesn't always get its fair share of publicity - big holiday crimes.
Danny Harold Rolling, Florida's most notorious serial killer since Ted Bundy, died singing.
Up until very recently, John Hall was in his 18th year of teaching management at the University of Florida. Then he wound up on YouTube.
Private equity-backed companies often come to the market with plenty of baggage, but that doesn't mean investors should always take flight.
So you're thinking about getting a master's of business administration, and you want to know which school is the best for you. With tuition at top-tier schools reportedly up 55 percent in the past ...
American scientists have discovered a way of creating new brain cells in a dish -- a breakthrough that could lead to treatments for conditions such as Parkinson's disease and epilepsy.
Every winter there's a huge migration as snowbirds flock south to their winter homes in the warm climes of Florida, Arizona, and the rest of the Sunbelt.
A Florida scientist has developed a "brain" in a glass dish that is capable of flying a virtual fighter plane and could enhance medical understanding of neural disorders such as epilepsy.
In the home of Gator football, University of Florida students took a traditionally serious affair -- a presidential debate -- and turned it into a sporting event.
If getting rich is supposed to make you feel good, why are so many investors so agitated so much of the time -- even when the market goes up?
Opinion polls indicate more young voters plan to vote in the 2004 presidential election than did in the 2000 election, when only a half-million votes stood between Al Gore and George W. Bush.
Editor's note: Campus Vibe is a feature that provides student perspectives on the 2004 election from selected colleges across the United States. This week's contributor is Dwayne Robinson, student writer at The Alligator, the University of Florida student newspaper. The views expressed in this article are not necessarily those of CNN, its affiliates or the University of Florida.
The home of Mardi Gras is under siege, not by the throng of partygoers swarming here this week, but by tiny unseen invaders: Formosan termites.
Credit Suisse First Boston has more to worry about these days than the criminal indictment of Frank Quattrone, its former star analyst. CEO John Mack has been slashing head count and costs--some sa...
Item No. 1: After an 11-month Internet IPO drought, PayPal, a Silicon Valley company that facilitates payments over the Web, goes public in February. Its stock subsequently surges 107%, making it 2...
Oct. 31-Nov. 2: Dias de los Muertos The Mexican Day of the Dead holiday, celebrating All Souls' Day, is anything but macabre--filled with flowers, singing, and graveyard celebrations. The festival ...
It's a morning in March, and a trader at Robertson Stephens, a top technology investment bank, sits in the sprawling trading room, the marshaling ground for the firm's regiment of Bloomberg termina...
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The students shown here are revving up their minds and muscles at Caltech, ranked by MONEY as America's best college buy for the second straight year. Like other schools that earned a place in our ...
EVERYONE KNOWS THAT FLORIDA CAN BE HOT. but not this hot! This year, in our ninth annual exclusive ranking of the 300 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, five Florida cities rank among the top 10 plac...
The cost of college has long been a major concern of American parents, but never more so than today. The average bill for a year at a state school was $5,248 in the 1990-91 academic year; the priva...
The marketplace for higher education, like securities markets, has pockets of opportunity: schools that, like undervalued stocks, are worth more than you have to pay for them. This fact was verifie...
GAINESVILLE, FLA. -- Joseph Sexton and Beth-Anne Thye got married in August 1987 . . . The University of Florida law students . . . are ((now)) making a legal challenge to the State Department of H...
OCALA, FLA. -- Eighty wild descendants of monkeys imported for Tarzan films in the Thirties face deportation . . . Officials of the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission say that it is illeg...
For companies that develop new agricultural technologies, it's a season of drought: the doleful state of the farm economy worldwide has taken the near- term commercial luster off scores of promisin...
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