Gainesville FL

Troopers from the Florida Highway Patrol responded to a two-vehicle collision yesterday in Marion County that resulted in the death of a passenger. According to the FHP report, at approximately 6:53 pm, a 29-year-old Citra man driving a pickup truck was traveling southbound on NE 160th Avenue Road. At the...

On Wednesday, police officers charged Taft McClay Jasper, 49, for the third time this decade on counts stemming from violence against women. Jasper’s pretrial investigative summary notes that he has been employed at Bank of America for one year and has a history of violence, citing a dropped 2024 domestic battery...

Gregory Lernard London Jr., 36, was arrested in October for child abuse and has now been charged with injuring two security guards at UF Health Shands. The post Gainesville man facing charges for attacking a child in August and injuring Shands security personnel in January appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - HCA Florida is preparing to open a new hospital campus in Gainesville and is beginning their search for its inaugural team. The Gainesville hospital will host weekly walk-in hiring events beginning this Thursday, ahead of its planned May 2026 opening. The events, called ‘Talent Thursdays,...

The Florida Department of Health updated its measles case counts Thursday as scheduled. But even after the dashboard refresh, the totals do not align with reports from two college outbreaks. The department’s Reportable Diseases Frequency Report now reports 66 confirmed cases statewide through Feb. 7 — including 46 in...

Jacob William Daniel Cruz, 25, of Longview, Texas, was arrested last night after an officer reported that he was driving without a valid license and had illegal drugs and an AR-15 in his car. The post Texas man arrested with illegal drugs and an AR-15 appeared first on Alachua Chronicle .

Thousands pass by an east Gainesville plaza on Williston Road each day, unaware it once housed a Black-owned shopping center envisioned by a trailblazing Baptist preacher . Now known as the Shalom Center, the plaza at 908 SE Williston Road in southeast Gainesville was once called the Alavec Shopping Center. The...

MARION COUNTY, Fla. – A Marion County couple’s retirement dreams have been shattered after discovering their recently purchased home will soon sit alongside a four-lane highway, a development they say came without warning. Nita and Tony Ipsale bought their new home on what they thought was a secluded...

Florida executed a man on Tuesday for the 1989 murder of a traveling salesman in Gainesville, marking the state’s first execution this year.

The Gainesville City Commission is advancing a five-year strategic plan to prevent gun violence through the Community Gun Violence Prevention Alliance. The alliance views gun violence as a public health emergency and aims to improve literacy and family stability through social services. Potential closure of Rawlings...