For Sharon Ferguson, the past six days had been a struggle since her son, Omar Jabree Gibson, disappeared.
When Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy told the Baptist Press in a July 16 article that he is “guilty as charged” of supporting the Bible’s heterosexual definition of marriage, public backlash and boycotts followed.
The UF assistant professor and author of more than 70 scholarly works was recently recognized in two separate studies as a leading criminology scholar.
Gainesville Police are looking for a missing 26-year-old man.
Police are looking for a man suspected of robbing a Dollar General on Saturday night after hiding inside the store.
A Gainesville woman was arrested after she was accused of trying to kill her husband in front of their children.
The Gainesville Division of the U.S. Marshals Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested a man connected to a Feb. 24 Gainesville bank robbery on Friday night in Lecanto.
A 59-year-old woman was struck and killed by a mid-sized pickup truck traveling north on Northwest 13th Street on Wednesday night.
Tobias, a GPD spokesman, said he posts updates like this on social media sites several times a day. According to a survey recently published by LexisNexis Risk Solutions, social media is becoming a popular tool in law enforcement, especially in departments serving smaller cities.
In a press conference Monday afternoon, the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office identified Truitt, David A. Hurtt, Michael S. Smith, Dylan T. Kestel. Pierce C. Harrell and Dennis T. LaRoche, as suspects arrested by officers from ASO, and Alachua and Gainesville police departments during a five-day Internet sex sting that ended earlier that day.
Gainesville Police officers arrested Eloise Sturdivant, 33, at about 10:50 a.m. on charges of aggravated domestic battery and resisting arrest without violence.
The Gainesville City Commission will vote today to approve a mutual aid agreement with the City of Tampa to send law enforcement officers to the Republican National Convention.
Michael Anthony Henderson Jr., 29, was arrested on a third-degree felony domestic battery charge early Sunday morning, according to a Gainesville Police arrest report.
UF junior Rebecca Harris died Wednesday night from injuries she sustained after being hit by a car while riding her bicycle June 23.
Jo’Von Uriel Lake, 21, was charged with two counts of armed robbery, both first-degree felonies; grand theft auto, a third-degree felony; and resisting arrest without violence, a first-degree misdemeanor.
The Gainesville Police welcomed its newest K-9 unit dog, Roo, on Wednesday afternoon after a $6,500 donation from The Pantry Inc. allowed the department to purchase a new police dog.
A car accident early Wednesday morning left a woman trapped in her car for 10 minutes.
Police have arrested and charged a Gainesville man in connection with a shooting outside a local nightclub earlier this month.
The woman was driving her daughter and granddaughter at about 10:30 p.m. Saturday night when he ran into her Toyota Camry.
A UF student died Monday morning of unknown causes.
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