Gainesville FL

After losing their toddler daughter to drowning in 2025, a Newberry couple is on a mission to make life-saving swim lessons accessible to every family. The Emily Grace Swim Foundation, founded by Jennie and Justin Gonzalez, is a scholarship-based program that provides four to six weeks of survival swim lessons to...

Alachua County deputies arrested a 33-year-old man Tuesday night after reports of a stolen vehicle on Southwest Archer Road.

The booking report is provided by the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office Department of the Jail. This information is public record and copied directly from the log. Mugshots are included when available. The charges listed are at the time of arrest and are only accusations. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty...

Some places refuse to evolve, and thank goodness for that stubbornness. Mac’s Drive Thru in Gainesville has been serving burgers the way they were meant to be served: hot, fast, and in a paper sack that gets progressively more translucent with grease as you drive away. You know that...

Due to economic challenges and decreased funding, Saint Francis House announced in a press release that it will be closing its downtown Main Street location alongside several programs. In a March 17 press release, Saint Francis House Executive Director Lauri Schiffbauer said after many years of serving individuals...

Dwight Leon Jenkins Jr., 37, was arrested yesterday after allegedly making a 911 call to report a shooting in another neighborhood in an attempt to divert the police from his location; he was also arrested on warrants for five shoplifting incidents. The post Homeless man arrested for making false 911 call and five...

Landscape irrigation is limited to one day per week based on the last number of your address. Addresses ending with an odd number may water on Saturday, even numbers on Sunday, and commercial (including common areas of subdivisions) may water on Tuesday. The washing of streets, driveways, or sidewalks is prohibited...

A Juniper man, held in another county for the alleged death of a Marion County man, arrived at the county jail on March 17. Shane Pennock Jackson was booked into the jail at 5:38 p.m. on a charge of manslaughter. Jackson had been picked up by authorities in Juniper on Feb. 25 on a warrant signed by Circuit Judge...

OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) — A married man was booked into the Marion County Jail after sheriff’s deputies say he propositioned a minor in a Circle K bathroom. The 14-year-old victim told deputies that 69-year-old Kevin Daniels, 69, cornered him inside a bathroom stall and asked if he could perform sexual acts.

Deputies say Jessica Bazemore, 42, dumped more than 22,000 thousand pounds of household garbage, including furniture, on land near her home in Umatilla.