Gainesville FL

At the April 23 General Policy Committee meeting, the Gainesville City Commission heard from businesses affected by the Streatery construction, discussed ways to provide emergency funds to the Cotton Club Museum, and postponed their Mobility Plan because of Senate Bill 180. The post Gainesville City Commission hears from Streatery businesses, discusses emergency funds for the Cotton Club Museum, postpones Mobility Plan appeared first on...

On April 1, Thomas Andrew Ray, 37, was placed into the custody of the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) to begin serving an 18-month prison sentence. Ray’s path to prison began nearly two years ago when Gainesville Police Department (GPD) officers arrested and charged him with two misdemeanor counts of criminal mischief.

STARKE, Fla. — A Florida man convicted of beating and choking his brother's 13-year-old stepdaughter to death nearly 50 years ago was executed Thursday evening. James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. He was convicted of the July 1976 killing of Cynthia Driggers.

OCALA, Fla. – A crash in Marion County on Thursday afternoon left seven people hospitalized, according to Ocala Fire Rescue. In a release, fire officials said the crash happened shortly after 4 p.m. at the intersection of Northwest Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and Northwest 22nd Street. “The collision...

Thursday’s forum is called Arts in Medicine for Creating Healthy Communities, designed to connect Florida-based artists.

Firefighters accused of violently hazing a co-worker in Marion County last year entered pleas on Thursday and were sentenced.

Three former Marion County firefighters are set to return to court in Ocala on Thursday, April 30, 2026, for a change-of-plea hearing in a violent hazing case involving a 19-year-old colleague at Fire Station 21. The 10 a.m. hearing follows months of internal reviews, criminal filings, firings, union grievances and a civil claim that have kept the incident squarely in...

A Florida man is facing charges for allegedly placing five newborn kittens in plastic bags and throwing them in the trash, authorities said. The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded to a residence in Hawthorne on Saturday to conduct a welfare check on animals. A witness told deputies she heard kittens in a trash […]

Free kitchen caddies will be available for Alachua County residents at the county’s five rural collection centers on Saturday. The caddies will be available from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and the giveaway, in partnership with O-Town Compost and the Alachua County Solid Waste & Resource Recovery Department, “is part of an effort to encourage residents to divert food scraps and other biodegradable waste...

STARKE, Fla. (WWSB) - A Florida man convicted of beating and choking his brother’s 13-year-old stepdaughter to death nearly 50 years ago was executed Thursday evening. James Ernest Hitchcock, 70, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. following a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. He was convicted of the July 1976 killing of Cynthia Driggers.