Ghanan graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong was in critical but stable condition Thursday afternoon, according to Alachua County Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer Art Forgey.
I’m a student of Kofi Adu-Brempong’s class, Geography of a Changing World. I just want to say that there’s absolutely no valid reason for the police to resort to shooting a handicapped man in the head who has trouble walking with a cane.
Graduate student Kofi Adu-Brempong was shot in the head as he swung a metal rod at the police officers in his apartment, according to a police report filed Friday.
After a bullet grazed Dorian Johnson’s face in July 2006, the damage ran deeper than her blurred vision.
When the neighbors heard her screaming, they thought it was just another stray cat.
A wanted man was arrested after he tried to escape police in a high-speed chase in a stolen car late Tuesday night.
A fight over $5 ended with the arrest of a Gainesville woman after she bit her partner in front of their children Sunday.
Mother always said look both ways before crossing the street.
A Gainesville man who stole Mayor Pegeen Hanrahan’s wallet from City Hall years ago was arrested again Tuesday morning when a witness noticed him trying to get into vehicles in her neighborhood.
Gainesville Police Department Chief Tony Jones wants city residents to understand a couple of things.
Two St. Francis House residents were arrested and charged with attempted murder for beating a homeless man Saturday.
A trial continued Wednesday for a former Gainesville police officer charged with the neglect and abuse of his 2-month-old daughter in January 2007.
Local law enforcement agencies announced today that they are running a campaign to increase the number of drivers who yield at crosswalks and decrease the number of people who jaywalk during the next few months.
Gainesville detectives are investigating a robbery that occured in the Rockwood Villas’ parking lot early Monday morning.
Gainesville Police Department officers arrested a local man for two separate cases of armed robbery Wednesday.
Since Jan. 1, there have been 69 reports of vehicular burglaries, which is higher than normal.
On Friday, Alligator columnist Paul Murty addressed the sad fact that gun and knife crimes in the U.S. are exorbitantly high when compared to rates in the U.K. The emotional response to these tragic crimes is often to immediately bash guns and gun owners and attempt to curtail their rights, but the argument Murty raised for gun control needs more facts.
Paul Murty’s Friday column “America should rid itself of gun use” is wholly unoriginal and poorly crafted. Murty floats a few arguments for the elimination of private arms in this country, and, as usual, they don’t make it off the ground.
BREAK-INS AND CARJACKINGS INCREASE DURING THE SUMMER.
Former Gainesville Police Department Officer David Reveille was sentenced to two years in prison Friday for using his position to solicit sexual favors from prostitutes while on duty.
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