Law and public safety

After almost a month of searching for 18-year-old Christian Aguilar, human remains, found almost an hour southwest of Gainesville, were positively identified as those of the UF student.

There will be a memorial service tonight at 7 p.m. for missing UF student Christian Aguilar at St. Augustine Catholic Church.

A routine traffic stop on I-75 Saturday night turned into a search-and-capture mission for Florida Highway Patrol. Trooper Michael Todd pulled over a Wolkswagen Jetta in southern Alachua County because he saw it weaving on the roadway. The driver, 35-year-old Trevor Flum of Warren, Mich., fled into adjacent woods while …

Some human remains found Friday in Levy county may be those of the missing University of Florida student, 18-year-old Christian Aguilar.

A crowd of about 30 gathered Thursday night in Gainesville at the corner of University Avenue and NW 13th Street in a candlelight vigil for Christian Aguilar. The 7 p.m. vigil was held concurrently with one in Miami, where Aguilar’s family resides. Candles, photos of Aguilar and donation boxes adorned the …

While shows like “CSI” may suggest that police departments have large investigation teams to solve disappearances like Christian Aguilar’s, that’s not often the case. The Alachua County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case unit has one lone detective. Detective Heather Phillips said most of her time consists of going through old files …

Police have ended the call for volunteers to participate in the search for UF student Christian Aguilar who has been missing for more than two weeks. The volunteer check-in post at the Florida Farm Bureau in Gainesville, which has been organizing search teams this week, will close at 5 p.m. …

A Florida House bill entitles victims of sexual battery to as much as $1,500 to help them relocate to a safer residence beginning in October.

As search for missing student continues, UF offers grief counseling for those affected by disappearance

Marion County Undersheriff Dan Kuhn is taking an unpaid leave of absence while the Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigates whether or not Kuhn's extramarital affair violated the law.