Officer injured in downtown brawl
By THOMAS STEWART | June 17, 2009A fight near 8 Seconds in downtown Gainesville early Tuesday led to three arrests and two Taserings and sent an officer to the hospital after he was hit with a concrete brick.
A fight near 8 Seconds in downtown Gainesville early Tuesday led to three arrests and two Taserings and sent an officer to the hospital after he was hit with a concrete brick.
With the housing market slump in full force, developers and real estate agents are looking for creative ways to sell properties.
Gainesville is known for its alligators, bats and, soon, butterflies.
Gainesville police are awaiting the autopsy results for a man whose body was discovered near Northwest 23rd Avenue Monday morning.
Giving blood never tasted so good.
During the next few weeks, expect to see Florida football players seated in the front, not the back, of local police cruisers.
It may cost $1.5 to $2.3 million to reconstruct Gainesville's historic Depot building, a long-term city project located just south of downtown.
George Elmore has attended city hall and town hall meetings for 37 years, but he says this one was not like the rest.
After a three-day murder trial, a Gainesville man was sentenced to life in prison for killing Tallahassee resident Andrew Arosamena in the Downtown Gainesville Parking Garage about a year and a half ago, hours after a UF - FSU football game.
For the next three weeks, assassins will lurk outside classes and stake out homes in hopes of picking off another agent in the Gainesville Street Wars.
A 62-year-old Gainesville resident was taken to the hospital early Wednesday after jumping from a window to escape a fire in a two-story townhouse. It was the second Gainesville complex to catch fire in a month.
As of Wednesday night, the evicted residents of Tent City still have not been provided with an alternative place to stay.
After a four-month delay, TV stations will no longer broadcast in analog starting Friday. Gainesville residents should be ready for the switch to digital broadcasting, said City of Gainesville spokesman Bob Woods.
Alachua County Animal Services has reduced its feline fees in response to the over-crowding of cats.
Residents of the Tent City homeless community have been served eviction notices following a stabbing last week, but no housing alternatives have been offered for the mini-city's nearly 200 inhabitants.
Some local iPhone users are peeved by the $200 fee required for an upgrade to Apple's newest product, the iPhone 3GS.
A Gainesville man was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a woman at gunpoint Friday.
Charges will not be filed against Sergio Castro, 22, the UF student arrested last week for spray-painting a memorial to a drowned Gainesville resident on The Top restaurant in downtown Gainesville.
A year after his death, Bo Diddley is still giving back to the Florida community where he spent the last years of his life.
At about 8:30 p.m. two men attempted a home invasion in the 1100 block of Southwest 3rd Avenue.