The YMCA’s Board of Directors gave a 30-day extension on Wednesday for its Gainesville chapter to continue its fundraising efforts to avoid closure.
A former employee of Alliance Credit Union admitted Wednesday to stealing $6,330 from a dead person’s bank account to pay for a new car, Gainesville Police said.
For nearly half a year, a Kmart pharmacist stole about 1,400 prescription pills from the store’s pharmacy, the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office said.
A Gainesville man — wearing a black speedo and red compression shirt — was arrested Wednesday after trying to seduce a woman in her backyard, Gainesville Police said.
Following a plane crash into a Tennessee mountainside Monday, two adults and a child from Bradford County, Florida, are believed to be dead, pending the identification of the bodies found at the scene.
After a night out at Midtown on Wednesday, a UF student broke into a house and fell asleep with a broom, Gainesville Police said.
After attempting to buy — and then stealing — a security guard’s dog Monday, an Alachua man stabbed the guard in the neck, Gainesville Police said.
An intoxicated, off-duty Alachua County Sheriff's Office deputy hit a parked car twice, sped down University Avenue and refused field-sobriety tests early Friday morning, Gainesville Police said.
After a failed attempt to persuade Florida electors to cast their ballots against Donald Trump on Monday, a dedicated group of Gainesville residents does not plan to give up on its goal of resisting the president elect’s incoming administration.
After a routine check by the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office on Monday, seven stores were caught selling alcohol or tobacco to minors.
Gainesville residents and YMCA employees have spent the last week relentlessly trying to save their community center.
After a woman resisted his romantic advances, a Gainesville man resorted to blackmail, posting semi-nude photos of the college student online and began threatening to share them with law schools that she considered attending, Gainesville Police said.
In the aftermath of a deadly attack on a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday, UF students and professors with ties to Germany mourned the loss of life — while urging others not to blame the attack on refugees.
Under the influence of drugs, a Georgia man drove the wrong way on Interstate 75 near Gainesville on Friday, the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office said.
On the heels of a burglary spree, a Gainesville teenager was caught Friday driving one of the cars he broke into, Gainesville Police said.
A Gainesville man sexually assaulted a stranger after inviting her to a motel Saturday morning, Gainesville Police said.
After stealing street signs from a construction site, a Gainesville man led police on a 12-block scooter chase Saturday morning, Gainesville Police said.
After a night of drinking, a UF student crashed her car into a flagpole in front of UF Health Shands Hospital on Thursday, University Police said.
They danced, laughed and ate burritos Friday night, the pack of about 300 people that gathered to celebrate the 40th anniversary of a local restaurant in need of some merriment.
With 12 condoms and some marijuana in tow, a Florida man drove to Gainesville on Thursday expecting to have sex with a 14-year-old girl — but what he found was a swarm of officers, Gainesville Police said.
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