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Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Gainesville, Florida – Thirty-seven years after Tiffany Sessions vanished in Gainesville, investigators continue seeking answers in one of Florida’s largest missing person cases. According to the Alachua...

Alachua County Sheriff’s deputies and Alachua County Fire Rescue are at the scene of a brush fire at 2550 SW 91st St.

MARION COUNTY, Fla. – A man was struck and killed Sunday night while crossing a road in Marion County, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The fatal wreck happened around 8:35 a.m. on County Road 484 at SE 47th Avenue. The FHP said a 47-year-old Ocklawaha woman was driving east...

Detectives with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the deaths of four people, including two young children, whose bodies were discovered inside an Ocala home late Friday night. Deputies arrived at a residence on Banyan Track Way in Ocala at approximately 10:25 p.m. on Friday, February 6, to...

When you pay at least $900 a month in rent, you don’t expect to have workers entering apartments, screeching power tools and boarded windows and balconies as part of the living experience. Many of the residents, primarily college students, living at Social 28 Apartments, have learned to live with constant...

A special teams mat became a symbol of the Billy Napier era at Florida: organized but ultimately ineffective. However, under Jon Sumrall, the Gators are trying to rebuild the culture at Gainesville. A part of that involves burying some old traditions. According to the Gators’ new special teams coordinator, Johnathan...

Buster Faulkner's path to becoming one of the nation's most highly regarded offensive coordinators – he was named the 2025 Offensive Coordinator of the Year by FootballScoop, an award voted on by his peers in the profession – featured nine stops before his arrival in Gainesville under Florida's newly hired head...

Ridgeland (S.C.) Bluffton four-star wide receiver Amare Patterson has made it well-known that Florida and Georgia are at the top of his recruitment. Both the Gators and Bulldogs have made their fair share of impressions on the rising pass-catcher. He’s already spent plenty of time in both Gainesville and Athens. That...

A University of Florida alumnus received the highest honor an athlete can get. Not only is speed skater Erin Jackson representing the United States of America o

Over 350 individuals with special needs, their hair and make-up done and wearing suits and dresses, walked the red carpet Friday night at Westside Baptist Church as Night to Shine returned, giving them a night to remember. The event, in partnership with the Tim Tebow Foundation, is a prom night...