Gainesville FL

A Gainesville man recently convicted of murder, Alderious Jerrad White, 32, will be transferred from the Alachua County Jail to the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) to serve a five-decade prison sentence. White's conviction stems from the 2022 murder of D'halani Armstrong, who lost her life at the age of...

Bread of the Mighty in Gainesville started an emergency food distribution program last week to deal with higher demand from SNAP recipients and other food-insecure families in Alachua, Levy, Gilchrist and Union counties. The emergency program starts as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) ends because...

After more than two decades serving local students, the Pace Center for Girls of Marion County will close its doors on Dec. 19, due to “the myriad of challenges facing this center,” according to an announcement from the organization. “This decision was incredibly difficult and made only after...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - The Gainesville High School teacher at the center of a controversial end-of-the-year superlative will be given the opportunity to respond to a state complaint. Lauren Watts was removed from her classroom earlier this school year after the mother of a former student claimed her son was...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Leaders at the Cotton Club Museum are hoping to restore an old grocery store into a historical site. “In African American communities, there are historic buildings, we don’t save many of them. This is one,” said Chair of Cotton Club Museum, Vivian Filer. The...

Two Gainesville Police Department captains were disciplined following an internal affairs investigation into the permitting process for an event on Easter Sunday at T.B. McPherson Park where a nearby fatal shooting took place. The internal affairs report, obtained by The Sun through a public records request, states...

A 53-year-old Marion County man has been arrested and charged with aggravated battery after he allegedly attacked his roommate inside their home, causing severe injuries that included a brain bleed. On Wednesday, October 8, Marion County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a local residence in reference to a...

Maurice Marko Shuler, 39, was arrested yesterday after allegedly fleeing from a traffic stop and then giving a fake ID to a deputy. The post High Springs man arrested for fleeing and giving fake ID to deputy appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

Marion County Sheriff's detectives on Nov. 7 were investigating a shooting death from the prior day. According to a news release issued by the agency, deputies were notified about a reckless driver in the 8200 block of Southwest 49th Avenue Road in Marion Oaks. On their way to the scene, deputies were told there...

KEYSTONE HEIGHTS, Fla. – A 22-year-old man is behind bars after a months-long child exploitation investigation led to a SWAT operation and arrest in Clay County. On November 6, 2025, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team executed a search warrant at a home on West Osceola Court in Keystone The post Keystone...