Around the Region - Nov. 16

POLICE BEAT

UPD arrest or eject 47 people at football game

University of Florida Police arrested or ejected 47 people from Saturday's UF-South Carolina game at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.

Seventeen people were arrested, one of whom was a UF student. Of those 17 arrests, 15 were for possession of alcohol, one was for disorderly conduct and one was for possession of marijuana.

Of those ejected, 13 were for disorderly conduct, 10 were for intoxication, 2 were for ticket switching, 3 were for sitting in the wrong seat, two were for throwing objects and one was for having no ticket.

Saturday's 47 arrests and/or ejections compared to 22 arrests and/or ejections at the Oct. 25 UF-Kentucky game, which started at 12:30 p.m., and 116 arrests and/or ejections at the Oct. 11 UF-LSU game, which started at 8 p.m. Saturday's UF-South Carolina game had a 3:30 p.m. start.

— Staff report

COMMUNITY

Student group to host ‘Chomp Out Hunger'

A University of Florida student group called Students in Free Enterprise will be conducting the 2nd annual Chomp Out Hunger Challenge starting Monday to collect canned food for the local Bread of the Mighty Food Bank.

The Chomp Out Hunger Challenge is a campus-wide canned food drive competition among UF student organizations and members of the Gainesville community.

Chomp Out Hunger will run Monday through Friday this week. Those interested in participating can collect canned food and drop it off directly at the Bread of the Mighty Food Bank, 325 NW 10th Ave.

In order for their contributions to count toward the challenge, participants must mention that they would like the cans to count for the Chomp Out Hunger Challenge.

All cans collected through this week's Chomp Out Hunger Challenge will be credited to Gainesville for the statewide Food Fight Challenge, in which football fans in Gainesville, Tallahassee and Miami are collecting canned food for Florida families, while competing for bragging rights in advance of the upcoming Florida-Florida State football game. The winning city will be announced the day of the game.

For more information about the food drive, go online to www.ufsife.com/chompouthunger.

— Staff report

STATE

Five stabbed after high school football game

STUART — Authorities in Martin County are searching for a teenage girl they say stabbed five teenage girls during a melee after a high school football game. None of the injuries are life threatening.

Investigators said Saturday that the girls were stabbed near the main entrance of Martin County High School around 9:30 p.m. Friday after a game against South Fork High School.

Martin County Sheriff's spokeswoman Rhonda Irons says the wounds were in the leg, shoulder, forearm and hand.

She says one person was Tasered by a deputy, another was bitten by a police dog and one woman was arrested in a series of unrelated fights outside the school.

— The Associated Press