Gainesville FL

Members of Gethsemane Lutheran Church (GLC) and the community executed the church’s ninth annual “Operation Turkey Sandwich” Thanksgiving morning, cooking, packaging and delivering 160 lunches to local employees working on the holiday. Pharmacists, urgent care doctors, first responders, gas station and tree farm...

OCALA, Fla. (WCJB/Gray News) - Several employees at a Florida fire department have been arrested for their alleged involvement in a hazing incident. Deputies from the Marion County Sheriff’s Office arrested 22-year-old Edward Kenny III, 22-year-old Seth Day and 19-year-old Tate Trauthwein on charges of kidnapping,...

Evan Hunter Hammock, 20, of Gainesville, was arrested yesterday morning after allegedly breaking into a house and spraying barbecue sauce on the walls and furniture before the house caught on fire; arson charges may be filed. The post Gainesville man arrested for breaking into home and spraying BBQ sauce on walls...

Two Louisiana men will spend the rest of their lives behind bars after being found guilty of kidnapping and robbery in connection with a 2022 home invasion in Marion County. Last week, 52-year-old Ronald Cyril Ganser, Jr. and 60-year-old Mark J. Cambre were found guilty of principal to kidnapping, burglary of a...

Rakeem Lizel Calhoun, 37, was arrested early this morning after allegedly stealing his girlfriend's car, hitting her, taking her cell phone, and attempting to elude law enforcement by listening to a police scanner. The post Man arrested for carjacking, battery, and using a police scanner to avoid deputies appeared...

As a former Gator, I remember when former University of Florida guard Shannon Snell — who recently became the franchise owner of the Sonny’s BBQ (Note-Snell took over for previous franchisees and New Tampa residents Jim and Cristina Hoff, who ran the local Sonny’s since it opened in 1998) on Bruce B. Downs Blvd. in...

At the November 20 Gainesville City Commission meeting, GPD reported a reduction in crime, and Commissioners expressed frustration that GRU continues to deduct its legal fees from the General Fund Transfer. The post Gainesville City Commission hears about crime reduction, expresses frustration with paying GRU’s...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Gainesville police say a man with active warrants tried to use another man’s name. Now he’s in the Alachua County Jail. Police say 60-year-old Philip Roberts gave a dead man’s name to officers who stopped him on Northeast 15th Street on Tuesday. Roberts...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - On March 31, 2025, agents with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service along with volunteers from several animal rescue groups took part in an operation that led to the seizure of eight neglected monkeys. Operation ‘Out of the Dark and into the Light’ is one of the...

OCALA, FL (352today.com) – The Marion County Planning and Zoning Board approved recommendations for a small-scale land use change from low residential to medium residential, along with a recommendation of a change in zoning general agriculture, for a planned unit development with a maximum of 72 houses, by a 6-2...