Gainesville FL

MARION COUNTY, Fla. – Over the past few weeks, News 6 has reported on multiple school threats and hoaxes across Central Florida. Now, one local school district says it’s taking steps to get ahead of the issue. This week, the Marion County School Board unanimously voted to purchase...

A developer has submitted plans to build a permanent food truck park featuring nearly two dozen vendors and a central dining pavilion along County Road 484 in southern Marion County. A special use permit for the new Marion Central Market, the name of the proposed food truck park, will come...

There's been so much attention on convicted killer Wade Wilson this month thanks to the Paramount+ release of the three-part docuseries about the crimes Wilson committed. It's called "Handsome Devil: Charming Killer" and it started streaming on Jan. 20. But Wilson has some company on death row at the Union...

BRADFORD COUNTY, Fla. — Two people are dead after a double shooting in Starke early on Thursday, the Bradford County Sheriff's Office says. The sheriff's office says that at 5:15 a.m., officers responded to a home on NE 6th Lane after their Communications Center received a "911 hang-up call."

As part of a planned nationwide protest in response to recent actions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minnesota, several Gainesville businesses will close in solidarity on Jan. 30. Businesses that have announced they will be closed on Jan. 30 include Humble Wood Fire , The Lynx Bookstore ,...

A man shot and killed his wife, then took his life in front of their children. Deputies responded to a mother, the female victim, and a neighbor who witnessed the unfolding attack. The estranged wife escaped, but was caught nearby and killed.

Tyuanna Daja Towns, 24, was arrested yesterday morning after allegedly breaking into a home on Tuesday and causing extensive property damage, then coming back the next day to attack a woman inside the home. The post High Springs woman arrested for burglarizing home two days in a row, causing property damage, and...

Detectives from the Ocala Police Department and the Marion County Sheriff's Office believe they have identified the person responsible for three armed store robberies that occurred on Jan. 27 and 28. Clifton Deon Scarlett, 55, of Ocala, was spotted by a deputy driving a Dodge Charger recklessly along Northwest Eighth...

FLORIDA — Forecast models are cautiously signaling a rare and highly conditional chance for snowflakes across parts of the state this weekend, as an unusual ocean-effect weather pattern briefly develops behind a surge of Arctic air. Overnight runs of the GFS and EURO models are now leaning into a...

OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) — Marion County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man accused of armed robbery at three different stores over two days. Investigators say Clinton Scarlett, 55, robbed a Family Dollar in Marion Oaks on Tuesday morning at gunpoint. Later that night, he robbed the Shoe Station on Southwest 24th Avenue,...