The Gainesville-Alachua County Drug Task Force arrested two men and recovered drugs, money and guns from a northeast Gainesville home Wednesday.
A Freightliner semitruck struck and killed a Virginia woman on Interstate 75 early Wednesday morning.
Mayor Craig Lowe discussed job creation, public safety and Gainesville’s future at the annual State of the City address Wednesday afternoon.
Britany Griffin has been taking birth control since August 2012. When she went to get it from Walgreens this month, her insurance company, Blue Cross and Blue Shield, no longer required her to pay the $7 co-payment.
The winning word was “ridiculous,” much like the other words featured in the Alachua County Public Schools District Spelling Bee.
UF building construction junior Alfredo Espinosa announced his candidacy today for the District 4 City Commissioner seat.
Gov. Rick Scott announced last week that Florida’s unemployment rate dropped to 8 percent during December, the lowest rate since November 2008.
Sixty-six times a day. That’s the amount of rape cases reported to the Indian government in 2011. And it’s suspected that thousands go unreported annually due to social stigma.
Gainesville Police have arrested a man in connection to his adoptive mother’s murder.
Gov. Rick Scott, who in 2011 signed a controversial bill cutting the number of early-voting days from 14 to eight, reversed course and called for early voting to last up to 14 days.
Female inmates at the Alachua County Jail will take care of stray dogs as part of a rehabilitation program beginning in February.
Gainesville cyclists are divided in their feelings about Lance Armstrong after he admitted to using performance enhancers.
Jessa Carpenter sat in a small, white-walled room reading “The Little Soul and the Sun” to six adult males. Two of her listeners rocked back and forth as she spoke.
Joe Biden is a national treasure, and please don’t ever forget that.
When Gainesville residents jot down items to buy at Walmart, they can now include Gators basketball tickets on their shopping lists.
Thirteen-year-old Michael Sayeski sat in front of a blank canvas with tubes of purple and brown paint. He painted inside the lines of an ice cream cone outline.
As Sweetbay supermarkets across Florida prepare to close in February, Gainesville’s store remains in business.
Students, residents and business owners are no longer the only ones standing around downtown Gainesville.
While he was in the Marine Corps, Tom Huffman needed to find a way to defend himself from the other soldiers.
A Gainesville woman was arrested Wednesday afternoon after a Kmart manager caught her sniffing aerosol in a store bathroom.
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