A deputy of nearly 20 years with the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office was fired Thursday after an investigation into allegations of criminal conduct and child abuse.
Instead of arresting a shoplifter at a Publix in southwest Gainesville on Sunday, an Alachua County Sheriff’s Office deputy paid the balance of the stolen items — and let the man go.
Hours after the Fourth of July’s end, three separate drive-by shootings took place in Gainesville.
Five days after warning her father about her safety, Eukelia Tershell Davis was found dead with three gunshot wounds on her boyfriend’s bedroom floor.
Police arrested a convicted felon Friday after he admitted to accidentally shooting a man while drunk in his house two weeks ago.
Evelyn Foxx’s early-morning walks with her friend Meg usually go uninterrupted, but Monday morning she stepped outside her house to a crumpled-up Confederate flag on her property.
After slipping on hydraulic oil accidentally spilled by a truck on Northwest 13th Street on Tuesday afternoon, a Gainesville bicyclist was killed.
Gainesville’s Martin Luther King Jr. Multipurpose Center will serve as a hurricane shelter in 2018.
On Monday, Gainesville Police arrested a Gainesville Uber driver accused of groping his passenger earlier this month.
A Florida Panhandle man admitted to stealing at least $35,000 worth of jewelry and shipping them out of state.
A Florida Highway Patrol trooper died Saturday night after being struck by a car in the median of Interstate 75.
Police are currently searching for a Gainesville Uber driver accused of groping his passenger, a woman in her 20s.
There are a lot of cool traditions that come with winning the NBA Finals.
After 13 years of planning, 10 years of fundraising and nearly two years of construction, a museum commemorating one of the inventors of Gatorade is set to open in Gainesville this spring.
Abby Almond was driving to the Gainesville Regional Airport at 5 p.m. May 18 when she received the phone call.
Frustrated residents wanting to know more about Gainesville Regional Utilities’ nearly billion-dollar buyout of a local biomass plant were able to ask public officials questions at a forum Tuesday evening.
To ward off bad spirits and keep her group protected, third-generation water carrier and 11-year-old Lily Smith smudged guests with sage at a Wednesday night water ceremony at Depot Park, located at 200 SE Depot Ave.
Gainesville residents will have the opportunity to once again participate in a record-setting swim lesson.
A Dunnellon man and woman were arrested Sunday after police said they stole more than $150 worth of clothing from Wal-Mart and resisted arrest.
A Gainesville woman was arrested on DUI charges Saturday night after driving with her two-year-old and four-year-old children in the backseat.
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