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STARKE, Fla. (WCJB) - The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the death of an inmate at the Bradford County Jail. On Tuesday, Bradford County Sheriff’s Office officials say James Michael Harper, 44, was found unresponsive at the jail. Harper died despite deputies, jail staff, and fire rescue...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - A man wanted in Hamilton County for armed robbery and selling drugs was arrested after fleeing from deputies in Alachua County. Alachua County Sheriff’s deputies released video of the chase involving Christopher Connolly, 36, on Southwest Archer Road Monday night. Deputies said Connolly ran...

Buddy, a cross between bison and cattle, bolted off a trailer outside a Connecticut slaughterhouse on Aug. 3, 2020.

A retired passenger transportation professional of 45+ years, I know a boondoggle when I see it and a failure of community planning when clearly it exists. Soon, in addition to the atrocious debacle of “planning” and building the State Road 200 “improvements,” which have only worsened traffic congestion between I-75...

Renee Vivian Lunan, 27, of Ocala, was arrested yesterday on a warrant charging her with throwing a cup of liquid on a convenience store clerk and then pointing a gun at another clerk. The post Ocala woman arrested for pointing gun at store clerk in Gainesville appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

OCALA, FL (352today.com) – The Marion County Sheriff’s Office responded to a physical domestic disturbance on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025. Adrian Marques Patterson, 21, Ocala, was charged with three felonies: domestic battery by strangulation; aggravated battery knowing or should have known the victim was pregnant; and...

The Junior League of Gainesville successfully hosted its 35th annual Miracle on Main Street event on Saturday, December 6, serving nearly 500 children. The post Junior League of Gainesville’s 35th annual Miracle on Main Street delivers holiday magic to nearly 500 local children appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Alachua County, FL – Nearly three decades later, investigators are again asking for the public’s help in solving the 1997 homicide of a woman found dead along a rural roadway north of Gainesville. According...

Volunteers spent the evening walking the streets, handing out soup, blankets and even making friends.

Christopher Eugene Thompson, 49, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and possession of an unregistered National Firearms Act...