Gainesville city manager resuspends police K-9 unit 2 weeks after reinstatement
The city’s short-lived reinstatement of its K-9 unit ended Friday after it was pulled due to community concerns and demands for transparency.
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The city’s short-lived reinstatement of its K-9 unit ended Friday after it was pulled due to community concerns and demands for transparency.
A Gainesville man was put into custody Thursday night on suspicion of attempting to kill a woman for driving near his home.
In the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Garden beside Gainesville City Hall, community organizers voiced their disapproval of the Gainesville Police Department’s announced return of its K-9 unit after a monthlong hiatus.
After allegedly forcing himself on a 20-year-old female victim, a Gainesville man was arrested on suspicion of sexual battery Feb. 25.
Marking over half a year since a police K-9 tore out a man’s eye during a traffic stop, the Gainesville Police Department’s K-9 unit announced its return from a monthlong hiatus.
Two Gainesville pedestrians were struck by a car Tuesday morning.
A UF student was put into the Gainesville Police Department’s custody Thursday evening on suspicion of punching a passerby until unconscious.
The UF Faculty Senate voted Thursday to approve the creation of a new master’s degree under the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering and the university’s 2027-2028 academic calendar — both now subject to approval by the Florida Board of Trustees. UF President Ben Sasse later unexpectedly joined to speak and field questions from the senators.
As students trickled into the Reitz Union Rion Ballroom, a single white note card adorned each of their seats. Later, they would use the space to scribble down questions, asking anything from: “What constitutes violent hate speech?” to “Should I outwardly wear my Star of David?”
Members of the Gainesville community joined together over conversations and a hot meal to ensure this Black History Month is more about action and less about simple remembrance.
Police escorted about 100 supporters of the transgender community out of the Department of Transportation Auditorium in Tallahassee Feb. 10, some leaving without the rights they had only hours prior.
A Gainesville resident died in a motorcycle accident early Monday morning. Gainesville Police Department arrived at the intersection of Northeast 31st Avenue and North Main Street, where a sedan collided with the motorcycle.
The Florida House of Representatives District 22 seat is likely to remain red as two Gainesville Republicans announced their candidacies and aren’t yet facing Democratic opposition.
A Gainesville man was arrested Friday for his alleged role in a Feb. 2 shooting that left two people dead and one critically injured.
A Gainesville man was taken into custody Wednesday on charges of child pornography possession, court records show.
A California woman will spend nearly a year in the Alachua County Jail after she was arrested for trying to bring to Gainesville 62 pounds of cannabis, which is roughly the weight of a Siberian husky.
Nearing her second hour at Tigert Hall, a protester sitting on the floor in front of the President’s Office leaned her phone speaker onto the mouth of a bullhorn and began to play “The Man” by Taylor Swift. A few minutes later, another began rattling off the digits of pi from memory to a cheering crowd.
Vincent Lahera owns a gun and has grown up around guns most of his life, but he’s apprehensive of Florida's newest gun legislation.
Nearly 100 Gainesville residents marched University Avenue with banners and signs Feb. 2, all demanding justice for Marcus Goodman, an Alachua County Jail inmate whose death is under investigation.