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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - The City of Gainesville is recognizing the 85th anniversary of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1205 with a dual street naming. The city commission will designate Northwest 25th Avenue from Northwest 8th Street to Northwest 6th Street as “IBEW Avenue.” This portion...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) -Imagine you’re in the back of an ambulance, one of the scariest moments of your life, and the truck breaks down. You have to wait for another ambulance to come pick you up and take you to the hospital. That was the reality for some patients and first responders in Alachua County, but now...

The family of former Fla. Gov. and U.S. Sen. Bob Graham gave $5 million to the University of Florida to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Bob Graham Center for Public Service at the Gainesville campus. The donation creates the largest endowed fund in the center’s history, UF said. It...

Gainesville native Malik Moore kicked off his campaign for the Florida House District 21 seat at Barbara Higgins Park in Gainesville on Wednesday, with a crowd of about 25 gathered to cheer him on. District 21 includes parts of Gainesville, eastern Alachua County, western Ocala and Marion County. Moore said...

Jon Theodore Secreto, 46, was arrested yesterday morning after allegedly throwing a brick through a window and then claiming someone else threw something at him and cut his arm. The post Man arrested for throwing brick through window and falsely claiming someone threw it at him appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

MARION COUNTY, Fla. – A Marion County jury has found a 40-year-old man, Cody Allen McGuigan, guilty on multiple felony charges, including trafficking over 200 grams of methamphetamine. The conviction, which was announced on September 17, 2025, followed an investigation by the Marion County Unified Drug Enforcement...

Le-Alem Getachew, 29, has dreamed of creating a drive-in movie theater since she was 8 years old. Dubbed the “side quest queen” by her friends, Getachew never had a drive-in to go to as a child growing up in Gainesville. For the past year, she has worked to fulfill the ambitions of her younger self, and Thursday...

A 35-year-old Ocala man is behind bars after he was accused of battering and choking his girlfriend during an argument over infidelity. On Tuesday, September 16, the female victim informed the Marion County Sheriff’s Office that her boyfriend, Eliecer Tirado-Hernandez, had battered her and threatened to kill her...

A 26-year-old man has been charged with multiple counts of aggravated assault after he allegedly pointed a gun at a group of road construction workers in Silver Springs Shores. On Tuesday, September 16, several Marion County Sheriff’s Office deputies were dispatched to the intersection of Pine Road and Pine Radial...

OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) - The Marion County Sheriff’s Office arrested a man who has been accused of scamming a victim over 65 years old. Jiang Jingcai, 41, faces charges of fraud and use of a two-way communication device to facilitate a felony. Deputies say Jingcai first called the victim...