Gainesville FL

Alachua County will consider adding Lake Shore Drive to its list of official scenic roads, with the staff review process already underway and potentially ending this month. Lake Shore Drive wraps around the western edge of Newnans Lake, and local residents say it’s a special area. You can see eagles and egrets,...

Students say the heavily traveled Norman Tunnel walkway has become the site of a back-and-forth graffiti battle. The Florida Department of Transportation recently ordered the removal of all artistic roadway decorations, including pride crosswalks. Many students believe that decision sparked the tunnel dispute, which...

The Gainesville City Commission voted 6-1 to demolish the Thelma Boltin Center after years of struggling with how to move forward with the building that dates to World War II. High construction costs to stabilize the building forced another reckoning before the City Commission, which already allocated $3 million for...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Damorie Lamontay Miles, 19, was arrested yesterday for selling marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school. He is currently on house arrest for possession of a controlled substance and possession of a firearm by an adjudicated delinquent. A Gainesville Police Department officer reported that a search...

Trever Arnett Strawder Jr., 26, was arrested yesterday after allegedly ramming deputies' vehicles and then fleeing on foot before being apprehended by a K-9. The post Man on probation arrested after allegedly ramming ASO vehicles and then fleeing on foot appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

A Belleview man who spent nearly 150 days in the Marion County Jail in 2012 and 2015 received a break on a $14,756 incarceration lien that he accrued over the past decade, with county officials forgiving over $13,500 of the amount owed. The Marion County Board of County Commissioners approved...

A 43-year-old Ocala woman was arrested on fraud and theft charges, nearly three and a half years after she allegedly used a fraudulent check to steal over $2,000 from a local convenience store. On April 2, 2022, a Marion County Sheriff’s Office deputy met with the owner of the Quick...

Nestled in the oak-canopied streets of Micanopy, Florida’s oldest inland town, the Old Florida Café stands as a delicious time capsule where coconut cake transcends mere dessert to become a religious experience. Some places just feel right from the moment you arrive. The kind of establishment that doesn’t...

OLD TOWN, Fla. (WCJB) - The trial date for the man accused of murdering Demiah Appling, 14, in Dixie County has been changed due to an issue with DNA evidence. Prosecutors told TV20 in July that Waymore Gerhardt’s murder trial was set to start the week of Oct. 13.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Gainesville Police are searching for a missing man with Dementia. Police say Dalton Sherwood, 93, is suffering from severe cognitive decline. He was last seen this evening near Southwest 44th Place in the Tower Road area in a silver 1999 Volvo station wagon. He was wearing...