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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - A grandmother says ongoing accessibility issues in Alachua County schools are preventing her from seeing her granddaughter’s events but district officials say they have ADA accommodations. Wanda Clark, who uses a scooter after breaking her back, says she’s been raising concerns about...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Alachua County Sheriff’s Office officials locked down Buchholz High School due to law enforcement activity in a nearby neighborhood on Tuesday. Officials say SWAT members and detectives were conducting a follow-up investigation to an incident that occurred over the weekend. The...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A teenage boy whose disappearance prompted an extensive search last week was never kidnapped, and the story was “completely made up,” Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods said on Monday. “[He] simply rode away toward Williston while the rest of us were left to think the worst, and my team was...

Marion County officials are looking to clarify rules on temporary “roadside vendors” and food truck parks in light of the closure of a popular site in August that was forced to close for lack of appropriate permitting. The revisions to the county’s land development code will be discussed...

Nearby students and staff are being directed to shelter in place as police respond to reports of gunfire at Smathers Library. No injuries were immediately identified by police, according to the university.

Over the past few days, Gainesville City Commissioner Bryan Eastman and Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) General Manager Ed Bielarski have been going back and forth on Facebook in an argument about the utility. On Wednesday, Eastman posted the following video on his Instagram and Facebook accounts. Friday...

BRADFORD COUNTY, Fla. — The Bradford County Sheriff’s Office motto reads “We Care.” Now, that promise is extending to one of their own. Corporal Bill Goodge, 62, has served with the department for 16 years. On Sept. 18, he was diagnosed with three brain tumors - two in his frontal lobe and one in his brain stem. Each...

GRACE Marketplace announced Monday the selection of Darius Williams as its next CEO, with a public meet-and-greet scheduled for next week. Williams worked as director of outreach programs in Ohio and also served as an acting dean and program chair at Rasmussen University. According to GRACE Marketplace, he also...

Travis Denard Grigger, 44, was arrested early this morning on a felony warrant and was charged with burglary, property damage, and resisting an officer without violence. The post Wanted man arrested on new charges of burglary and property damage appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

An Ocala woman was arrested for aggravated assault after she allegedly fired a gun at a shed in her backyard during an argument with a man that turned “heated.”. On Sunday, September 28, a Marion County Sheriff’s Office deputy responded to a residence located on SE 38th Avenue in Ocala in reference to a domestic...