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A 23-year-old woman, who tried to shoot a Marion County Sheriff’s deputy in the head with a handgun that she had concealed in her pants, will spend the next four decades in prison. On Monday, in a Marion County courtroom, Rheanna Diane Harden was sentenced to 40 years’ imprisonment...

The city of Gainesville and Gainesville Regional Utilities have been going back and forth for some time now as to who has control of the city’s utilities, but now a final resolution might be met.

Fire crews responded this evening to a residential fire in Hawthorne; no injuries were reported. The post Fire crews respond to residential fire in Hawthorne appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

Tyrese Da’Jon Jones, 26, has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The post Serial felon pleads guilty to federal charge of illegal possession of a firearm appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

MCSO arrested a woman on animal cruelty charges on Tuesday for starving three dogs, two of which died.

Audi Gainesville has been sold to E1T1 Automotive Group out of Texas, according to a Wednesday press release from Haig Partners LLC. Haig Partners served as an advisor to E1T1 Automotive Group, led by Jarryd Carver. Audi Gainesville (1920 North Main St.) will be Carver’s first Florida dealership, the press release...

The first day of the Mike Anthony Jones Jr. murder trial concluded Feb. 17 with lawyers presenting opening statements and several witnesses testifying for the prosecution. Here's what we know: About the case: Marion County Sheriff's deputies were called to the 2900 block of Northeast 163rd Lane in Citra on Dec. 26,...

Fish Hawk Spirits, a farm-to-bottle distillery that has operated in Marion County since 2012, announced plans to move its operations out of the county following a denial of its Special Use Permit by the Board of County Commissioners on Feb. 17. The decision came after a six-month continuance granted in...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Landon Kirell Coleman, 22, an inmate at the Alachua County Jail, has been charged with 40 counts of violating his pre-trial release conditions after allegedly calling his domestic battery victim 139 times on the free jail phones. Coleman was arrested on November 27, 2025, for allegedly...

Eduardo Machado-Cabrera, 74, was arrested yesterday for allegedly stabbing his roommate with a kitchen knife. The post Man arrested for stabbing roommate appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .