Topic: Gainesville

Baseball spring training: The facts, from history to cheap seats

Spring training is when players shed the winter rust by limbering up on warm, sun-baked diamonds, sign autographs galore, and provide hope that this may be their team’s year. As preseason games between major-league teams begin on Saturday, here are a few facts to give you some background on spring ball.

Could global warming turn us all into hobbits?

A study of prehistoric horses has found that rising temperatures tend to make mammals shrink. Does that apply to humans too? 

Florida I-75 south of Gainesville reopened after massive pileup

Ten people died when a dozen cars and six trucks collided Sunday in a smoke-enshrouded section of Interstate 75 in Florida. Late Monday morning, Interstate 75 south of Gainesville was reopened

Mars science lab 'Curiosity' to launch 'extraterrestrial real-estate appraisal'

After a decade of "following the water," planetary scientists want to see if water co-existed with other critical environmental conditions that could have allowed simple forms of life to emerge.
11/25/2011 03:05 pm

Tim Tebow: ticket-booster ... for the Dolphins?

Tim Tebow boosts ticket sales for Miami vs. Broncos: two of the NFL's worst teams. Is there anything Tim Tebow can't sell?
10/21/2011 10:35 pm

Terry Jones: How free speech and Quran burning can lead to violence

The violent reaction to Terry Jones burning the Quran at his tiny Florida church continued to spread Saturday, and with it questions about freedom of expression with murderous results.
04/02/2011 12:41 pm

Why Terry Jones Quran burning spurred two days of deadly Afghan protests

Protests over Terry Jones's Quran burning spread to the southern city of Kandahar Saturday. By contrast, there was little popular reaction to recent photos of US soldiers posing with the bodies of Afghans they had killed for sport.
04/02/2011 12:32 pm

UN staff killed by Afghan mob enraged over Florida Quran burning

At least 20 UN staff members were killed in northern Afghanistan when a protest over a Quran burning overseen by pastor Terry Jones turned into a violent mob.
04/01/2011 06:20 pm

Full court press: Miami judge hands top school basketball team a key win

To the cheers of team members and fans packing his courtroom, a Miami judge blocks a decision by a state athletic association that would have kept Florida's top-ranked team from the playoffs.
02/09/2011 09:59 pm

Shark attacks: researchers say 'fight back'

Shark attacks went up in 2010, with at 79 unprovoked attacks reported. Experts give advice on how to fight back if attacked by a shark.
02/08/2011 09:48 pm

In Pictures NFL draft 2011 prospects

Arsenic microbe in Mono Lake may reshape hunt for extraterrestrial life

Scientists have found a microbe in Mono Lake, California, that uses arsenic as a fundamental building block, changing the definition of 'life as we know it' and the search for extraterrestrial life.
12/02/2010 07:34 pm

How does an arsenic-based life-form work, exactly?

Scientists have apparently discovered a type of bacteria that, unlike every other known form of life, uses arsenic instead of phosphorus as one of the basic components of its DNA molecules.
12/02/2010 05:17 pm

Open house: Foreclosure art meets the whims of the web

His home in foreclosure, Jack Stenner opened the empty property to virtual squatters in an eerie art installation.
11/09/2010 04:01 pm

Pastor Terry Jones is given car for refraining from burning holy book

Pastor Terry Jones, of Gainesville, Fla., never burned a Quran but told The Associated Press on Thursday that the offer of a car was not the reason, saying he learned about the offer a few weeks after Sept. 11.
10/15/2010 03:43 pm

Free speech: What if Terry Jones went to Sweden?

A look at the global state of free speech.
10/02/2010 11:15 am

Free speech: Westboro church Supreme Court case tests First Amendment

A Supreme Court case challenging the Westboro Baptist Church anti-gay protests will test the limits of free speech, with First Amendment implications for other forms of expression such as Quran burning and racist demonstrations.
10/02/2010 11:15 am

Chapter & Verse Banned Books Week: 5 books almost anyone might want to ban

Even ardent opponents of censorship could hesitate when it comes to titles like these.
09/28/2010 05:59 pm

US Muslim groups unite, see mosque near ground zero as test of rights

Muslim leaders, meeting at the New York site of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near ground zero, speak of their 'unified stance' against 'religious intolerance and bigotry.'
09/20/2010 07:29 pm

Florida church may not burn Qurans, but Kansas church says it will

Pastor Terry Jones may have ‘suspended’ plans to burn copies of the Quran at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., on 9/11, but the controversial Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., says it will.
09/10/2010 05:50 pm

Egyptians, though angry, see beyond the Quran-burning hype

While many Egyptian leaders spoke out about the Quran-burning event, Muslims here largely recognize that most Americans don't support such actions.
09/10/2010 03:49 pm

Afghans protest Quran burning

A number of protests broke out in Afghanistan Friday and turned violent in response to Quran-burning plans by a Florida pastor, even after the pastor said he cancelled those plans.
09/10/2010 01:12 pm

Pastor's agreement to call off 9/11 Koran burning beset by confusion

Pastor Terry Jones said he would cancel his planned Koran burning and travel to New York to discuss the location of the mosque near ground zero. But it's unclear what has been agreed to.
09/09/2010 09:22 pm

11 countries speaking out against Koran burning in Florida

More than 10 countries have now condemned a Florida pastor's plan to burn the Koran in commemoration of the 9/11 terrorist attacks of nine years ago. As noted in the Monitor article Why the planned Koran burning causes outrage and alarm, "Muslims see it as the uninterrupted, unchangeable, and eternal word of God. Burning the Koran is akin to directly burning the word of God." Here is what leaders are saying worldwide.
09/09/2010 04:54 pm

Global News Blog Can global leaders' outcry minimize fallout from Koran burning plan?

The planned Florida Koran burning has compelled outcry from President Obama, Pakistani President Zardari, and others. Those messages appear to be muting wider Muslim reaction to the planned Koran burning.
09/09/2010 04:09 pm