- Gainesville residents will vote for the next mayor today. Incumbent mayor Craig Lowe faces former City Commissioner Ed Braddy in today’s runoff.
- The Gainesville Police Department is still looking for the man responsible for an armed burglary and sexual assault Monday.
- One of the three people killed in Monday’s Boston Marathon explosion was 8-year-old Martin Richard.
- A U.S. Marine transport helicopter carrying 21 people crashed today near the North Korean border.
- A string of bombings across Iraq Monday killed at least 55 people and injured more than 200.