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ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. – The Union County Sheriff’s Office said that two women and a suspect were found dead on Tuesday following a standoff on I-75 near Paynes Prairie. The agency said that the situation began around 4:30 p.m. when it found two women dead from apparent gunshot wounds near S.W. County Road 241, near...

In less than 24 hours, two fires started at a nature park in Gainesville, resulting in the arrest of a woman who violated the county’s burn ban.

A 47-year-old Marion County man was arrested after allegedly stealing a Cadillac and leading deputies on a high-speed chase that ended with a rollover crash. On Monday, January 26, two Marion County Sheriff’s Office deputies observed a Cadillac SRX that was stopped at a red light at the intersection of SW 108th Place...

OCALA, FL (352today.com) – The Marion County Board of County Commissioners unanimously approved, with a 5-0 vote, the filing of an injunction against the defendants responsible for the railroad tie fire that took place on the CSX property in Dunnellon on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026. The county will be...

Tabaree Jakeem Lewis, 40, was arrested yesterday on a warrant, and more charges were added after a deputy saw him near a convenience store and a search of his vehicle produced evidence that he was selling drugs. The post Wanted man on pre-trial release arrested by deputies appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

Multiple fire crews responded to a kitchen fire in a cabin at Lochloosa Fish Camp on Tuesday morning. According to an Alachua County Fire Rescue (ACFR) release, crews from ACFR, Melrose Fire Department and Cross Creek Fire Department responded at 8 a.m. to a report of a commercial building fire at 15008 US Highway...

Crews say the fire spread up the wall and into the attic space of a cabin at Lochloosa Fish Camp in Hawthorne around eight this morning.

OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) - Sheriff’s deputies arrested a 17-year-old boy accused of intentionally setting another teen on fire earlier this month in Marion County. TV20 obtained the arrest affidavit for Bradey Ming, 17, of Anthony, for whom a warrant was issued last week on the charge of aggravated battery.

Last September, Jason Griffin hosted a field day in his citrus grove near Lake Alfred in partnership with the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS). The event was well attended, and some growers requested a second field day when the crop was closer to harvest. Griffin...

A Gainesville woman with cancer asks for help to avoid eviction The post Letter: Gainesville woman with cancer asks for help to avoid eviction appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .