Gainesville FL

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - City Commissioner James Ingle announced on Tuesday that he would be absent from the Gainesville City Commission meetings as he recovers from brain surgery. Ingle, the commissioner for At-large Seat A, told TV20 that he will have surgery to remove the remaining piece of a brain...

OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) — Big names in country music are coming to this year’s Rock the Country music series in Marion County. The popular two-day music festival will return to Florida Horse Park Aug. 28 and 29. The last two years, Rock the Country was held in late spring, but this year it will take place in the heat of...

Florida landed a Gator legacy via the transfer portal on Monday. TJ Bullard, the son of former Florida DE Thaddeus Bullard, announced he is transferring from UCF to UF. Thaddeus Bullard went on to have a star career in the WWE using the stage name Titus O’Neil. The 2026...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - A volunteer search team in North Florida is stepping in to help law enforcement find missing people, offering specialized resources at no cost. The North Florida Search Team is a completely volunteer-based nonprofit. Michelle McLaughlin has been involved in search and rescue since 2001, and...

A Delaware woman has filed a lawsuit against the HITS Ocala Winter Circuit and a local man after her horse was allegedly attacked and bitten by a dog that had a “propensity for violence” due to its breed. Shoshana Altschuler filed the complaint in Marion County Circuit Court...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) -Gainesville Fire Rescue crews responded to multiple residential structure fires Tuesday. The first fire occurred in the 1300 block of SE 4th Avenue. The fire was quickly brought under control and no injuries were reported. Crews later responded to a second working structure fire in the 200...

Newly released body camera footage shows how a routine traffic stop in Summerfield escalated into a deputy-involved shooting last summer, leaving a patrol car riddled with bullets and a deputy narrowly injured.

MARION COUNTY, Fla. (WCJB) - A 27-year-old man was arrested Friday after deputies say he attacked an elderly person with a metal pipe during an argument about cleaning his room. Jacob Small was charged following the incident, according to Marion County Sheriff’s deputies. Deputies say Small hit the victim...

A Marion County man died Jan. 10 in an all-terrain vehicle crash in northern Polk County. Travis Sneden, 32, of Fort McCoy was driving a 2018 green Kawasaki ATV at about 3:30 p.m. and attempted to travel down a steep cut with an approximate 24- to 30-inch vertical drop, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said in a...

WILLISTON, Fla. (WCJB) - Sheriff’s deputies arrested a woman for murder after her ex-husband’s body was found in their shared home in Williston. Levy County Sheriff’s deputies say they received a 911 call from a juvenile last Friday, reporting a man was dead inside a home in the Williston Highlands neighborhood.