Kevin Burgess, a 49-year-old Gainesville resident, was charged with DUI manslaughter and driving without a valid driver’s license.
Five Gainesville Police Department officers were disciplined after they were found to have violated department conduct rules as result of an internal investigation released Friday.
Gainesville 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.
Ledrick 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.
The 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.
Zhishen 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.
A Newberry man died after he was shot near Champions Park Thursday night.
An RTS bus crashed into Cabana Beach apartment complex’s gatehouse Monday morning.
A 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.
A 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.
A 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.
A 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.
One hour after a crash on 13th Street, a car flipped over on the corner of Southwest Williston Road.
Barry 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.
A crowd of more than 200 mostly maskless Gainesville city employees and their families donning “Make America Great Again” hats and shirts attended the event in support of a lawsuit attempting to reverse Gainesville’s vaccine mandate for city employees.
A Buchholz High School student was arrested by Alachua County Sheriff deputies Monday in connection with false bomb threats. The student could be charged with a second-degree felony with the potential to pay fines up to $10,000, Behl said.
Yousef Mugharbil suffered non-life-threatening injuries in a scooter crash after not stopping when the truck turned right off of West University Avenue.
Police believe the suspect stabbed his father in the head and neck area at least five times with a knife. He now faces charges of premeditated murder and destroying evidence.
Screams for help went unnoticed for hours until after her child was born and she was taken to UF Shands Hospital — where she watched her newborn, Ava, die in her arms, Thompson wrote in a Facebook post Tuesday.
Christopher Scott, 13, died after being shot during a party held at the Gainesville American Legion on June 24
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