Driver hits, kills pedestrian on West University Avenue
By Mickenzie Hannon | Nov. 19A male pedestrian died after being hit by a vehicle outside of the Seagle Building Friday evening.
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Gainesville man arrested for DUI manslaughter in Waldo
By Lily Kino | Sep. 23Kevin Burgess, a 49-year-old Gainesville resident, was charged with DUI manslaughter and driving without a valid driver’s license.
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3 police officers disciplined, 2 suspended following Terrell Bradley K-9 mauling conduct investigation
By Alan Halaly and Makiya Seminera | Sep. 23Five Gainesville Police Department officers were disciplined after they were found to have violated department conduct rules as result of an internal investigation released Friday.
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Gainesville Amazon facility cleared after written bomb threat
By Heather Bushman | Sep. 13Gainesville Police Department officers responded to a written message on a whiteboard in the facility, located at 2121 NW 67th Place near Northside Park off of U.S. Route 441, around 9 a.m., GPD Chief Inspector Jamie Kurnick said. The message indicated the presence of a bomb in the building.
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Parents of Gainesville 3-year-old who shot and killed himself charged with manslaughter
By Lily Kino | Sep. 8Ledrick Lataurus Ferguson, 48, and Kayla Shelynn Carter, 34, were charged with manslaughter, unsafe storage of a firearm and three counts of neglect Wednesday, court documents show. The neglect charges refer to two of their other young children who were present at the time of the shooting.
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Select UF Health Shands dispatchers, paramedics unanimously vote to unionize
By Heather Bushman | Sep. 4The 84-member union of dispatchers, flight paramedics and ground paramedics will bargain with UF Health for higher wages and industry-standard training as it negotiates its first contract.
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UF student arrested on sexual assault, kidnapping charges
By Mickenzie Hannon | July 21Zhishen Wang, a 27-year-old UF pharmaceutical sciences graduate student, was arrested for assaulting an acquaintance July 8 at Corry Village Apartments — UF’s graduate and family housing behind the campus’ bat houses — according to a UPD arrest report.
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Police still searching for shooter in Newberry homicide
By Mickenzie Hannon | June 18A Newberry man died after he was shot near Champions Park Thursday night.
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RTS bus crashes into gatehouse at entrance of Cabana Beach apartment complex
By Omar Ateyah | May 24An RTS bus crashed into Cabana Beach apartment complex’s gatehouse Monday morning.
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Alachua County Public Schools mistakenly warns of active shooter
By Fernando Figueroa | May 22A week after a Fort Clarke middle schooler was arrested for bringing a loaded gun to school, families across the county received an accidental message from Alachua County Public Schools alerting them of an active shooter Thursday morning.
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UF student killed in hit-and-run on Southwest 34th Street
By Troy Myers | Mar. 18A UF student was hit and killed by a truck at about 6:30 p.m. Thursday while walking on the sidewalk along Southwest 34th Street. The driver, 19-year-old James O’Reilly, fled the scene after hitting the student on the 3600 block of Southwest 34th Street.
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UF student hospitalized after hit-and-run on West University Avenue
By Troy Myers | Mar. 17A female UF student was hit on her scooter near University Park Arboretum Thursday evening. A car heading east on West University Avenue turned left onto Northwest 23rd Street and hit the unidentified student just after 6 p.m. in the opposite lane.
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Internal investigation reveals no policy misconduct in death of former inmate’s baby
By Isabella Douglas | Dec. 1A four-month-long internal Alachua County Sheriff’s Office investigation into the birth of a newborn behind bars and her eventual death, revealed Tuesday that no misconduct took place inside the jail. However, the mother’s supporters disagree.
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Collision on 13th Street sends two to hospital, car flips on Southwest Williston Road
By Troy Myers | Oct. 2, 2021One hour after a crash on 13th Street, a car flipped over on the corner of Southwest Williston Road.
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Gainesville man dies in Newberry shootout with Alachua County Sheriff deputies
By Isabella Douglas | Sep. 24, 2021Barry Heckard, a 39-year-old Gainesville resident, shot the first shot at deputies on State Road 45 and at least one deputy returned fire — resulting in a fatal shot that caused Heckard’s death, ACSO spokespeople Kaley Behl and Art Forgey said.
