Police set trap for unclaimed monkey
By Meredith Rutland | Apr. 19, 2012Officials set a trap Thursday to catch a monkey suspected of stealing fruit from an elderly woman in northeast Gainesville.
Officials set a trap Thursday to catch a monkey suspected of stealing fruit from an elderly woman in northeast Gainesville.
The City Commission unanimously approved the design of a new RTS Bus Fleet Maintenance and Operations Facility on Thursday, which will allow for more buses to operate throughout the city.
Members of the City Commission are hesitant to create a petition against proposed budget cuts to UF’s College of Engineering Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering.
The Alachua County Sheriff’s Office arrested a middle school teacher who allegedly drove from Dunnellon to have sex with a 14-year-old Tuesday night.
University Police charged a Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity member with using a police scanner as a lookout device.
Recent reports from the National Association of Colleges and Employers show that graduating seniors may have brighter futures than they think.
Gainesville Police Department wants to keep a stricter lookout for people who don’t wear seat belts at night.
Gainesville Police arrested a man accused of throwing eggs and breaking a front-door window with a 2-by-4 on Tuesday morning.
Politicians, especially those who have been in office for a while, often talk a lot about reforming the “system.”
A Gainesville man almost ran over his girlfriend Monday afternoon.
On Sunday evening, Michael R. Edmonds Jr., a 26-year-old journalism student, died after falling from the upper levels of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
About 240 UF students won’t find their bicycles today where they last left them, but it’s not because they were stolen.
Thirty-eight brewers from around the state and country served crafted ales, stouts and lagers to young and old beer enthusiasts Saturday afternoon at the inaugural Hogtown Craft Beer Festival at Kanapaha Botanical Gardens.
Young Life, a Christian-based organization, held a 5K Doughnut Dash race Saturday at Westwood Middle School.
With smoke infiltrating the air from several wildfires last week, the Alachua County Health Department issued a newsletter Friday recommending that residents avoid breathing in the smoke for too long.
Gainesville Police said Jude Rizzo, 21, a nursing student at Santa Fe College, shot Michael Crace, 20, three times near the chest in self-defense on April 2.
Nonprofit home brewing club Hogtown Brewers will host the Hogtown Beer Festival from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at Kanapaha Botanical Gardens.
The Alachua County Health Department has reported 70 cases of chickenpox since January, 65 of which have been in the northwest part of the county.
A Santa Fe College student is in critical condition after crashing his motorcycle into a ditch Thursday morning.
Carl M. Babb, 50, was arrested after police said he snatched a woman’s purse from the Lunchbox restaurant downtown at about 8:50 p.m.