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Deputies with the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) transported Nathaniel Emmanuel Hayes, 29, to the Alachua County Jail Friday on a warrant for false imprisonment and felony battery by a repeat offender. According to a report by the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office, on December 19, 2024, Hayes punched the...

The First Watch location at 3411 SW 36th Terrace in Ocala, Marion County, FL, received a warning from state inspectors after tallying eight violations during a routine food safety inspection on August 19, 2025. The Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation found multiple temperature control problems...

Benjamin Bernard Ousley Jr., 18, was arrested last night for allegedly swinging a sword and injuring a man, along with endangering and traumatizing two children. The post 18-year-old arrested for swinging a sword, injuring a man and endangering two children appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

From style to personal wellness, some Black-owned businesses in Gainesville try to go a step further in caring for and improving locals’ wellbeing. As National Black Business Month comes to a close at August’s end, here’s some local spots to visit. Salon Syx. Dennayce Mavin, a 38-year-old...

Ocala-News.com has received multiple letters this month sharing opinions about the ongoing development in Ocala and Marion County. Here are a dozen of those letters:. “I recently moved to Ocala from Hollywood, Florida. I’m a Florida native, was born in Key West, and have been visiting the Ocala area since the 1980s....

Rafael Then Jr., 33, of Belleview, was found guilty by a jury of trafficking methamphetamine. The verdict, delivered on Tuesday, comes after a joint undercover operation by the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, the Ocala Police Department’s Unified Drug Enforcement Strike Team (UDEST), and the United States Drug...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Gainesville city leaders say they will start covering up rainbow crosswalks downtown on Monday. At the start of August, city commissioners voted to remove the crosswalks to comply with a state order. The order requires intersections and crosswalks to be free of “distractions” by September...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) -St. Francis Vet Care opened the doors to its new clinic in Gainesville today, drawing many people for a celebration with food trucks, music, raffle prizes, and pet-friendly activities. The event marked a new chapter for the nonprofit clinic, which has served low-income families, veterans,...

Elijah McKenna Eyerly, 29, and Paulina Sophia Oswald, 27, were arrested last night on drug charges after allegedly refusing to get out of their car; after deputies broke a window to access a door lock, Oswald was reportedly removed by a K-9 team, and Eyerly was physically removed from the car by deputies after...

An argument outside an Ocala gas station resulted in the arrest of a 22-year-old woman after she allegedly reached into an occupied vehicle and attacked her friend. On Wednesday, August 20, a Marion County Sheriff’s Office deputy responded to the Pilot Travel Center located at 2020 SW Highway 484 in Ocala in...