Gainesville FL

The City of Gainesville has been awarded a $10,263,750 federal grant to support a series of transportation improvements, including construction of a new Westside Bus Transfer Station and Park-and-Ride facility, ADA accessibility upgrades to bus stops, and the replacement of aging paratransit vehicles. The post City...

BELL, Fla. (WCJB) — Gilchrist County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Bell man Friday who was wanted for months following a December traffic stop, officials said. Jeffery Long, 45, was taken into custody after sheriff’s officials launched an extensive investigation with help from state and local agencies. Deputies...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Alachua County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man after they say a suspected car thief tried to escape by climbing onto a roof of a home. Sheriff’s officials say Camren Banks, 19 stole a car in Southwest Gainesville on Saturday. Deputies say Banks went up...

A Florida man got busted after not one, but two tries at stealing a spetic tank from a construction site, according to surveillance footage.

A wicker-woven casket emerged from a funeral hearse earlier this month at the Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery for what would be the final resting place of Barbara Finley James. The coffin, modest and held together by various plant materials, was placed on a wooden cart. After a brief moment, a...

Florida Highway Patrol troopers say the 18-year-old boy was driving an ATV eastbound on a dirt path west of Northeast 171st Avenue Road just before 6:30 p.m.

SILVER SPRINGS, Fla. (WCJB) - Marion County Fire Rescue crews put out a semi-truck fire Tuesday afternoon. MCFR officials say crews responded to the 20000 block of East Highway 40 in Silver Springs just after 3 p.m. to reports of a vehicle on fire. Crews arrived to find a semi-truck...

Travis Ramone Pinder 35, of Ocala, has been sentenced to nine months in jail, followed by four years of probation, after entering a plea of nolo contendere to child abuse without great bodily harm. The post Ocala man sentenced to 9 months in jail for hitting juvenile with gun, tearing off part of his ear appeared...

STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man was executed Tuesday evening for killing a young mother who frantically called 911 from her attacker's cellphone while tied up in his car. Michael Lee King, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. following a three-drug injection at Florida State Prison near Starke. He had been...

At a joint meeting between the Gainesville City Commission and the Alachua County Commission on March 9, commissioners heard an update on the GCRA and discussed the future of jointly-funded projects on the east side of Gainesville. The post City and County Commissioners discuss future of GCRA, east side development...