Gainesville FL

BRADFORD COUNTY, Fla. (WCJB) - UPDATE: The Bradford County Sheriff’s Office identified the suspect as 39-year-old Michael Crawford. Sheriff Gordon Smith says Crawford made threats to the Florida Credit Union’s call center Monday. On Tuesday, Crawford entered the Florida Credit Union in Starke wearing a visible...

Gainesville Police Chief Nelson Moya has made a video, asking the public for help with the investigation into the shooting death of a 20-year-old woman at TB McPherson Center on Easter Sunday (April 20, 2025). The post GPD Chief asks public for help in identifying witnesses to Easter Sunday shooting at TB McPherson...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - She hasn’t learned her lesson about scamming the US Department of Education. Federal prosecutors say Reina Isom, 47, of Gainesville will spend 30 months in prison. They say she used the personal information from several accomplices to submit fraudulent student aid forms. Over the course...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - A motorcyclist is dead after a crash early Wednesday morning in Gainesville. Alachua County sheriff’s deputies say the motorcyclist collided with a vehicle on Southwest Archer Road around 7 a.m., blocking westbound lanes for multiple hours. The motorcycle rider was dead when deputies...

OCALA, Fla. – A woman is accused of felony littering after allegedly amassing over 14,000 pounds of trash and debris at an illegal homeless encampment in the Silver Springs Shores area, a news release states. Marion County deputies formally charged the woman after an investigation revealed she had allegedly...

A task force from Marion County that visited Texas to help those impacted by devastating floods earlier this month is returning home. First responders from the Florida Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 4 and Task Force 8 deployed from the Florida State Fire College in Ocala to Texas on July 7.

Neighbors lent their support for a new master plan approved by Marion County commissioners on Monday that paves the way for the construction of dozens of new homes in southwest Ocala. The Marion County Board of County Commissioners approved the final master plan for Westwood Trails during its monthly Planning...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Gainesville police are sharing new video of another downtown shooting as they search for people of interest in the case. They posted this video from Sunday May 18th. They say two groups of people started shooting at each other, and a teen was shot. That teen...

Gainesville Police Department is investigating the shooting of a 19-year-old man on July 20. The post GPD is investigating shooting of 19-year-old man appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

A former couple’s volatile encounter on a Saturday night sparked a violent series of mishaps , the last of which involved someone being pinned to a house with a car, according to investigators in Florida. That car was driven not by either of the exes, but by an intoxicated acquaintance, the Putnam County Sheriff’s...