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By the time Florida deputies walked up to a woman out walking her dog and told her she was under arrest, a 40-year-old missing child case was already on the brink of collapsing in on itself. The woman they were cuffing was accused of vanishing with her toddler in the early 1980s, and the adult ... Read more

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Alachua County, FL – Investigators are renewing their call for public help today as a decades-old cold case reaches another anniversary, marking 35 years since a Gainesville-area woman was found dead inside...

MARION COUNTY, FL (352today.com) – Marion County is taking a major step forward in delivering clean, safe drinking water to residents in northern Marion County with continued progress on the Lowell municipal drinking water project. At its Jan. 6 meeting, the Marion County Board of County Commissioners approved a...

MELROSE, Fla. (WCJB) - Just shy of its 100th birthday, a historic school building in Melrose is being demolished because of asbestos. Tuesday, Alumni toured the old “small community school” before it’s set to be torn down. All around the historical Melrose High School Building, now home...

LAWTEY, Fla. (WCJB) - Sheriff’s deputies raided a home in Bradford County and arrested a man with numerous drug and gun charges. Bradford County Sheriff’s deputies say their narcotics unit was tipped off that Cedric Carter was selling drugs from his home in Lawtey. Undercover detectives conducted several cocaine buys...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Alachua County, FL – An early morning traffic stop in Alachua County on Saturday led to the arrest of a convicted felon after deputies say a K-9 unit alerted to illegal narcotics inside the vehicle....

INTERLACHEN, Fla. (WCJB) - Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man accused of attacking his ex-girlfriend at her home and barricading himself inside, causing a several-hour stand-off with law enforcement. Putnam County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Austin McGowan, 29, of Interlachen, on Monday night on charges of grand...

Update | Jan 14, 2026: Added more information on the differentiation of the arrest reports and organized information under subsections. On October 20, 2025, Juan Pozada-Zepeda, 31, was placed on a detainer by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities in Jacksonville while in prison. The Incident....

Michael Louis Leopold, 47, and Michele Belinda Lewis, 47, were arrested yesterday at a home in Archer after a K-9 team reportedly found Leopold, who was wanted on a warrant, under a four-foot pile of debris. The post Pair arrested after K-9 finds wanted man hiding under 4-foot pile of items appeared first on Alachua...

A former resident of the Historic Side of The Villages who became homeless has been tracked down after allegedly going on a spending spree with a stolen credit card. Carianne Blanche Meuse, 38, who previously lived on Boone Court in The Villages, was found in a homeless camp in Belleview and taken into custody on...