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.
Students may get more time to think up a good excuse when contesting city parking tickets.
Parking illegally in Midtown may result in a boot instead of a tow, and some say it's for the better.
Women whose TV screens come between them and UF's star quarterback now have one way to get closer to the action - Tim Tebow thongs.
A man was arrested Sunday night after stabbing two people in Gainesville's Tent City, a homeless community.
The Hippodrome State Theatre's most successful show is returning to the Mainstage after a three-year hiatus.
A fire in an Ocala house resulted in the discovery of a grow room that contained more than 40 marijuana plants.
Meteorologists will keep an eye out for Ana, Bill, Claudette, Danny and Erika this year.
A sweaty crowd of about 35 people linked arms, grabbed one another's butts and sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in the Civic Media Center on Sunday night as part of a traveling "gay vaudeville" group's performance.
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