Local law enforcement agencies announced today that they are running a campaign to increase the number of drivers who yield at crosswalks and decrease the number of people who jaywalk during the next few months.
Gainesville detectives are investigating a robbery that occured in the Rockwood Villas’ parking lot early Monday morning.
Gainesville Police Department officers arrested a local man for two separate cases of armed robbery Wednesday.
Since Jan. 1, there have been 69 reports of vehicular burglaries, which is higher than normal.
On Friday, Alligator columnist Paul Murty addressed the sad fact that gun and knife crimes in the U.S. are exorbitantly high when compared to rates in the U.K. The emotional response to these tragic crimes is often to immediately bash guns and gun owners and attempt to curtail their rights, but the argument Murty raised for gun control needs more facts.
Paul Murty’s Friday column “America should rid itself of gun use” is wholly unoriginal and poorly crafted. Murty floats a few arguments for the elimination of private arms in this country, and, as usual, they don’t make it off the ground.
BREAK-INS AND CARJACKINGS INCREASE DURING THE SUMMER.
Former Gainesville Police Department Officer David Reveille was sentenced to two years in prison Friday for using his position to solicit sexual favors from prostitutes while on duty.
The motive has been determined as robbery, as some drugs and a small amount of cash were taken from the apartment.
As students start a new semester, a recent study recommends they take note of their new classmates — one of them might have a criminal record.
Stacey Brown, 20, was murdered in a friends apartment by two armed intruders Monday night. Police are searching for a 1990s-model white Honda in connection with the suspects.
Pedestrians helped out after one driver hit two cars, knocked down a power line and flipped his SUV on its side at Northwest 15th Street and Northwest Fifth Avenue at about 4:40 p.m. Tuesday.
Gators football coach Urban Meyer announced Tuesday that starter Carlos Dunlap will not play in Saturday’s Southeastern Conference championship game after he was arrested for DUI early Tuesday morning.
A UF student was arrested and banned from campus Sunday after police say he used counterfeit money at a campus restaurant.
A resident psychiatrist at UF’s College of Medicine was arrested early Sunday morning for driving drunk and failing to stop after hitting a pedestrian near Ben and Jerry’s on University Avenue.
UF’s Homecoming Queen was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence early Thursday morning.
The office of UF’s political science department was closed for about three hours Friday due to safety concerns after a political science professor was arrested on a domestic battery charge the day before.
A local group demands charges be dropped against five arrested in a clash between police and partiers on Fest 8 weekend. Videos of the incident are in the jump.
The Alachua County Sheriff's Office dropped charges against a man arrested for attempted murder Friday after further investigation led them to believe he was falsely accused.
A UF graduate student was arrested Sunday evening after he ran from police while wearing a pair of sneakers he'd just stolen.
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