Gainesville FL

The seventh Sunshine State Book Festival will be held on Jan. 23-24 in Gainesville, Florida, celebrating the U.S. 250th birthday with a focus on Florida's literary history. Dr. David Morton will deliver the keynote address, honoring his late mentor Dr. James Clark and highlighting Florida's home-grown literary...

The series, based on the American Girl storybooks, includes six performances highlighting key periods in American history: Revolutionary America (1774-1776), New Mexico (1820), Pioneer America (1854), the Civil War era (1864), America’s New Century (1904), and World War II America (1944). The post City of...

The Gainesville City Commission voted to retake ownership of a downtown lot and still allow a developer to construct a 115-unit, multistory residential building to replace the current surface parking lot. The City Commission also agreed to give vacant parcels in the Heartwood neighborhood to a nonprofit for 16...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Alachua County Sheriff’s deputies say a man wanted for battery and kidnapping turned himself in Friday after being on the run for more than a week. Deputies say Ayandre Ross, 34, attacked a pregnant woman on Jan. 5 in her home in Alachua County. He...

Buchholz High School ESE teacher Christin Vinson was named the national winner of the Amazing Teacher program, sponsored by Florida Credit Union in partnership with The Gainesville Sun, and on Jan. 15 was awarded $5,000 during a presentation at the school. Representatives from The Sun and Florida Credit Union were on...

James Edward Flintroy, 59, was arrested yesterday and charged with making a false report about a bomb threat. The post Man with 51 criminal convictions arrested for threatening to bomb bank appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

OCALA, Fla. – People living in Marion County experienced several hours of sub-freezing weather as the coldest air in years swept through the region. On Friday, a hard freeze warning was in effect in Ocala as temperatures were in the mid 20s until after sunrise. Nicole Toohey works in...

An Ocala man has filed a lawsuit against a local hookah lounge and its landlord, claiming that a lack of adequate security led to him being beaten up during a fight that spilled into the parking lot. Jerome Blunt filed the complaint on Monday, Jan. 12, in the Fifth Judicial...

Ashley Gibson Crews, 43, and Anastasia Renea Collier, 26, were arrested yesterday after allegedly stealing over $900 in merchandise from Target; Crews is expected to be charged with at least seven other thefts. The post Pair arrested for shoplifting over $900 in merchandise from Target; one said she’d been stealing...

MARION COUNTY, Fla. - Neighbors in a rural Silver Springs community say a pack of aggressive dogs has been attacking their pets. A medium-sized black Pit Bull mix without a collar barked as a FOX 35 crew pulled up to Norm Thayer’s Silver Springs home. Thayer said the dog...