A traffic stop Tuesday night led police to arrest and charge a man accused of using a sledgehammer to rob a northeast Gainesville convenience store in July.
Many Florida residents spent the weekend stocking up on canned food, filling gas tanks and covering their windows in anticipation of Tropical Storm Isaac.
A week into the semester, a UF graduate student and university employee has already hit the wall.
St. Francis House, a shelter and soup kitchen, is raising money to transform the lot into a community garden to grow one ton of produce. The Florida Certified Organic Growers and Consumers Inc. intends to plant 10 55-foot rows of produce in the privately owned lot, said Travis Mitchell, a coordinator for the nonprofit’s food projects.
Gainesville Police charged David Wesley Harteis, 25, of 13402 NE 34th Way, with escaping from authorities, according to a GPD arrest report. He returned to the Santa Fe Work Release Center on Tuesday morning.
We try to find patterns where there are none. Patterns help us make sense of our environment and surroundings.
The second annual Labor Daze Fest will be held Sept. 2 from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Bo Diddley Community Plaza, 111 E. University Ave. The event is free and open to the public.
Police charged Devin Baulding, 18, Adrian McClendon Jr., 19, and Tarris Cox, 20, with grand theft and dealing in stolen property by use of the Internet.
The restaurant opened its second location at 1515 SW 13th St. after its final inspection cleared Friday morning — three days before its expected Monday grand opening, said Michelle Brewer, co-owner of Adam’s Rib Co.
Police charged Adrick Montez Williams, 28, of 2019 NW Third Ave., Sunday afternoon with being an accessory to murder. A second suspect, Jonathan Rashad Peterson, 26, was charged with homicide and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon after he turned himself in to police Monday.
A Gainesville man was arrested early Friday morning, accused of trapping his girlfriend in their apartment and attacking her for two hours.
The Gainesville Interfaith Alliance for Immigrant Justice, alongside various religious and community leaders, spoke out for Immokalee workers’ rights at a press conference Friday.
The first man to set foot on the moon has left the earth for the last time.
Gainesville Police are investigating a Thursday night shooting that left one man dead and the suspect still at large.
Members of a UF fraternity assisted University Police officers in the arrest of an Ocala man who allegedly broke into the fraternity house mother’s bedroom early Thursday morning.
Now that the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary has been updated, words like brain cramp, man cave and sexting are fair game for academic papers.
Gainesville Police charged Jason Lamont Smith, 35, with aggravated domestic assault, domestic battery and obstructing justice.
Gainesville Police arrested a man early Wednesday morning after he chased his girlfriend out of her second-story window and held onto her car roof as she drove away.
Out of the 152,746 registered voters in the county, 34,632, or 22.67 percent, cast ballots for local, state and congressional races.
After a rainy day at school, Gary Solomon was hungry for some French fries. His appetite went up in smoke Tuesday when an unattended cooking pot caused a grease fire in his kitchen.
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