Gainesville FL

The University of Florida officially cut the ribbon on its upgraded Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience and Sea Turtle Hospital.

About 50 people gathered at Mebane Middle School in the city of Alachua Monday evening for a community input session hosted by the district. The district discussed the future conversion of Mebane into a pre-K through eighth grade school — and the potential closure of Irby Elementary School. School...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Firefighters from multiple agencies worked to contain a wildfire in northern ALachua County on Tuesday afternoon. Florida Forest Service officials responded to a six-acre fire on East County Road 225, north of the Gainesville Raceway and west of Waldo. Three dozers, one helicopter, and firefighters from...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WMBB) – A Gainesville man was sentenced to twelve and a half years in federal prison on charges related to receipt and possession of child pornography. Court documents suggest the defendant, Daniel Reginald Hanna, II, 38, maintained a disturbing and significant collection of child pornography. At the defendant’s residence, law enforcement located numerous […]

CITRA, Fla. (WCJB) — The mother from Marion County accused of aggravated manslaughter in the death of her three-year-old daughter intends to plead an insanity defense. Attorneys for Jennifer Kendrick, 26, claim she is incapable of knowing right from wrong. Paisley Brown, 3, was killed at a home in Citra in February following abuse allegedly committed by her boyfriend, Jeroen Coombs, 32.

WILLISTON, Fla. (CBS12) — Two people were killed after a small single-engine plane crashed Monday afternoon in a rural area near Gainesville. According to officers with the Levy County Sheriff's Office the crash happened around 3:30 p.m. at the intersection of Northeast 30th Street and 114th Avenue, several miles from Williston regional Airport.

Gainesville’s Ke’Mani Hill, 15, was adjudicated guilty of manslaughter, conspiracy to commit robbery with a firearm and other felonies on Monday after a guilty plea. Alachua County Judge Denise Ferrero sentenced Hill to more than 20 years in the Florida Department of Corrections, along with a concurrent 15-year sentence for shooting into an occupied vehicle.

Leesburg Police traffic homicide investigators on April 13 arrested 29-year-old Evan Garcia of Ocklawaha in connection with the April 10 hit-and-run crash that took the life of 40-year-old Ashleah Hayes. Garcia was arrested on a charge of leaving the scene of a crash involving death [Florida Statute 316.027(2)(c)]. According to a police news release, the agency...

After multiple Marion County residents shared stories lamenting the diminishing presence for their preferred grocer, Winn-Dixie, Ocala-News.com received letters from residents of other counties with similar sentiments. “It’s a real shame they are closing so many Winn-Dixie stores around Florida. It is even happening in Volusia County and surrounding counties....

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Jocelyn Monique Hill, 34, has been charged with grand theft and forgery after allegedly using old checks to steal over $4,700 from her disabled brother’s bank account. The issue was reported to Gainesville Police Department after the victim’s caretaker discovered that six checks for a...