The Gainesville City Commission voted 4-0 Thursday night in favor of a new ordinance that would prevent bars with underage drinking violations from selling alcohol outdoors during game days.
The Gainesville City Commission approved a request for the Gainesville Police Department to get funding from the Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation.
Grooveshark launched a mobile-streaming website Wednesday to bypass the Google and Apple app stores after a series of disagreements with media companies.
A Gainesville man was arrested Tuesday morning after he tried to hit a woman with his car.
After a shooting Tuesday night, Gainesville Police are looking for the gunman who shot a man in the face during an apparent drug deal in northeast Gainesville.
When Flaco’s Cuban Bakery opened its second location in busy Midtown, staff expected business to continue booming.
Police charged Larry James Owens Jr., 43, of 413 S. Main St., with burglary, theft, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance, according to a GPD arrest report.
Gainesville barbecue lovers will soon have the flavor of Central Florida at their fingertips when 4 Rivers Smokehouse opens its doors on Archer Road
On Aug. 24, Dennis Kane — also known as “the Turlington dancer” — said he woke up “a little more edgy” than usual.
As thousands of fans battled the heat to catch the first game of the 2012 Florida Gators football season, University Police and Gainesville Police officers had their share of stadium ejections and arrests.
Police arrested David Gerald Evans Jr., 46, of 9526 SW 132nd St., and charged him on Friday with child molestation, according to an ASO arrest report.
Police charged Jerome Cobb, 63, of 6006 NE 39th Blvd., on Sunday with aggravated assault and threatening to discharge a destructive device, according to a GPD arrest report.
President Barack Obama talked student loans, space program funding and beer in an unconventional interview on the Internet last week.
University Police are investigating an incident in which a man had a gun inside a Shands at UF parking garage Thursday afternoon.
Police charged Dallis Brandon Young, 22, of 1425 SW 42nd St., with aggravated child abuse early Thursday, according to a GPD arrest report.
A traffic stop Tuesday night led police to arrest and charge a man accused of using a sledgehammer to rob a northeast Gainesville convenience store in July.
Many Florida residents spent the weekend stocking up on canned food, filling gas tanks and covering their windows in anticipation of Tropical Storm Isaac.
A week into the semester, a UF graduate student and university employee has already hit the wall.
St. Francis House, a shelter and soup kitchen, is raising money to transform the lot into a community garden to grow one ton of produce. The Florida Certified Organic Growers and Consumers Inc. intends to plant 10 55-foot rows of produce in the privately owned lot, said Travis Mitchell, a coordinator for the nonprofit’s food projects.
Gainesville Police charged David Wesley Harteis, 25, of 13402 NE 34th Way, with escaping from authorities, according to a GPD arrest report. He returned to the Santa Fe Work Release Center on Tuesday morning.
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