Gainesville FL

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) — Five young boys from the Frazer School took home first place in the 2025-26 FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Challenge. The FLL is a worldwide STEM program for students ages 5 to 16 that combines robotics, research, and real-world problem-solving. The team, known as the Turbogatorbots,...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) -It’s the last weekend of black history month, and TV20 is highlighting a historic restaurant in Gainesville, The Dunbar, a once historically black hotel opened in 1936 by Jack and Sophriana Dunbar, that’s now reopened as an immersive restaurant in one of Gainesville’s oldest historically...

A Gainesville man was arrested Saturday on charges of possessing a firearm on school grounds. Jeffrey Griffith was allegedly carrying a gun near a Santa Fe College athletics field, according to a Santa Fe College Police Department arrest affidavit. A witness spotted Griffith, 69, with a firearm and flagged down...

Authorities have found a Florida man who went missing on Valentine's Day shoulder-deep in muck authorities have likened to quicksand. First responders in Palatka located Andrew Giddens on Thursday, February 26, alive at the Vulcan Materials Company in Melrose, but caught in a thick substance that made it impossible...

The 14th annual Run For The Springs was held at 8 a.m. Feb. 28 at Silver Springs State Park. According to Marion County government, proceeds from the annual run help fund grants for septic tank pump-outs, system inspections and repair permit rebates. See more photos and a video at ocala.com This article...

A delivery driver is suing an Ocala-based fire truck manufacturer following an incident where he was allegedly forced to jump from a trailer to avoid being crushed by a falling load. The complaint, filed in Marion County by Kevin Taylor, names E-One, Inc. as the defendant and stems from an...

James Rodney Amburgey, 59, was arrested yesterday for allegedly breaking a vehicle window and then throwing a nail-studded club through the window of a home, breaking the window. The post Waldo man charged with breaking windows with nail-studded club appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

Barbecue pulled pork. Steak taco. Burger beast. When stuffed into an egg roll, these make rather interesting culinary creations. With the classic crunchy shell on the outside, the fried morsels are stuffed with seemingly endless possibilities. World Famous, a South Florida-based Asian fusion egg roll business, serves...

HIGH SPRINGS, Fla. (WCJB) - Members of the wildlife and conservation community gathered Saturday to remove invasive Water Hyacinth from the Santa Fe River, continuing efforts to protect the rivers ecosystem. The project was led by Our Santa Fe River, a local nonprofit organization dedicated to river conservation....

Saturday was the final day Trenton police officers worked for the city, marking the end of the municipal police department.