Residents of The Paddock Club of Gainesville watched in shock Thursday afternoon as their apartment caught fire during a thunderstorm.
Alachua County Sheriff’s officers arrested a Gainesville woman for trying to scam local banks and using her grandmother’s identity.
The City of Gainesville’s communications entered the 21st century last week with a new online forum called engageGNV.
Gainesville Police arrested a local woman carrying a bag of meth and seven oxycodone pills after she tried to destroy 0.2 grams of crack cocaine in her pants.
Former Florida football player Aaron Hernandez pleaded not guilty on seven charges — including two counts of first-degree murder — during his arraignment Wednesday in a Boston courtroom.
Alachua County Fire Rescue’s Emergency Management Division is assembling a volunteer Fire Corps for the first time in its history.
Out of all the cities in the U.S., a foreign startup company chose to open its first U.S. location in Gainesville’s Innovation Square, and a UF alumnus is heading the location.
A Gainesville man was arrested after resisting arrest when police found cocaine in his pocket.
Gainesville Police arrested a Lake City man for stealing shoes, pants and other items totaling $361.50.
Gainesville Police arrested a man after he ran from officers and threw a 1.4-gram tube of cocaine to the side of the road, officials said.
When Gildas Dousset received his tuition bill, it was nearly four times as high as it was supposed to be.
Starting in June, anyone with an Xbox will have access to popular online entertainment applications through their console without needing to purchase an Xbox Live Gold Membership.
Don’t delete any selfies from the boardwalk at Loblolly Woods Nature Park — you may have to wait about five months to snap another one.
We know Spring Fever — a general increase in energy and sexual appetite — is definitely a thing, but it seemed this week that sudden-loud-and-horrible-opinions-from-old-white-guys fever is a thing, too. From “Wheel of Fortune” host Pat Sajak coming out over Twitter as a global-warming truther (and inexplicably calling global warming “alarmists” unpatriotic and racist?) to a Florida representative claiming that the Common Core is part of the “gay agenda,” we’re left scratching our heads. So this one goes out to all irrelevant game show hosts and bigots with microphones: our keep-calm-but-maybe-don’t-carry-on? edition of Darts & Laurels
Riders who usually pay the $3 fee for an All Day bus pass will receive one for no cost on Wednesday.
A Gainesville-based animal research group working in the Solomon Islands near Papua New Guinea recently encountered something no one had seen in years — the New Georgian Monkey-Faced Fruit Bat.
Starting May 31, Gainesville will see nine days of no sales tax intended to help residents stock up on supplies for the hurricane season.
In two years, Depot Avenue will have roundabouts, landscaping and decorative lighting. But for now, it’s closed to traffic for construction.
In several states, texting 911 for help is the newest way to summon police, but Florida is not among them.
Gainesville Police arrested two men and a woman for having .4 grams of cocaine, a crack pipe, weed and giving a false ID after a traffic stop on Sunday, officials said.
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