Update: Gainesville Police arrested the man who police say tried to rob SunState Financial Credit Union last week.
The shooter told authorities he was acting in self-defense.
Victor Hazy has been thinking of ways to help prepare the community for emergencies ever since a series of crashes on Interstate 75 in January took 11 lives.
Off-duty Gainesville Police Officer Wilfredo Perez was driving with his wife when they were almost hit by a Chevrolet Impala.
Jonathan D. Mieras, 45, of Wellborn, was robbed, threatened with a shotgun and shocked with a stun gun, according to the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office.
U.S. Marshals located and arrested a 50-year-old alleged child sodomist Sunday in north Gainesville.
Donald J. Zepp, 81, left Shands at UF around 7 a.m. to get food and has not been seen since. He was visiting his wife who is staying at the hospital.
The PNC Bank on Northwest 13th Street was closed Wednesday after an armed robbery.
A man believed to be in his mid-60s tried to rob a bank Friday morning, and Gainesville Police are still looking for him.
Every day Moe Rodriguez goes to work, he worries a police officer will be the first person through the door.
After taking an undisclosed amount of money from PNC Bank on Northwest 13th Street on Wednesday morning, the robber hopped in the passenger’s side of a white Chevrolet Tahoe.
After running away from Gainesville Police in the middle of his arrest around 8:30 a.m., Darius D. Phillips was caught on Newell Drive on Wednesday night.
The Gainesville Public Safety Committee decided Wednesday night to recommend the City Commission ban smoking in Bo Diddley Community Plaza.
Fans of Harry Potter can now conjure the magic and whimsy of the wizarding world on e-readers.
Kelsang Chokyan, 32, is a Buddhist monk traveling around Florida teaching Buddhism and the art of meditation to his students.
Both westbound lanes of Southwest Williston Road were shut down around 5 p.m. Wednesday after a semitrailer ran over a man in the road.
Police are searching for a man suspected of robbing a P.N.C. Bank Wednesday morning.
Gainesville Police are looking for a man who ran away while being transferred from one cop car to another on Southwest 42nd Street Wednesday morning. He was last seen near UF's campus.
Facebook warned its users Friday to refrain from giving login information during job interviews.
Gainesville Fire Rescue put out a fire at an abandoned home on Northwest 13th Street late Tuesday night
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