Alachua County Sheriff's Office

A Lake City driver and former high school football standout who had been ordered to stay away from alcohol is facing a serious felony charge over a head-on collision in heavy fog in late 2023 that killed a Gainesville mother on her way to her church.

Authorities say they disrupted a scheme by a 450-pound Florida prison guard to smuggle a half-pound of illegal drugs into the Suwannee Correctional Institution by hiding a package under the folds of her stomach.

Four north central Florida sheriffs met in a historic building on State Road 26 on Monday to renew an agreement that commits their agencies to share law enforcement jurisdiction over Melrose, an unincorporated area approximately 17 miles east of Gainesville.

Chad Scott Sr. is the leading fundraising candidate among Democrats in the 2024 Alachua County Sheriff race. His son, Chad Scott Jr., died last year from an overdose of illegal methamphetamine.

Dozens of community leaders representing Gainesville and Alachua County gathered at Eastwood Meadows on Monday in remembrance of a victim of gun violence.

Law enforcement gave the all-clear after a suspicious package was found at Peabody Hall.

It’s an udderly puzzling mystery: Whose Brahman steer did sheriff’s deputies wrangle in a rural community near High Springs? Tongues-in-cheeks, deputies…

The first substantial videos to emerge from a panicked stampede at the University of Florida during a nighttime vigil for Israelis killed in the Hamas…

At least five people were injured at the University of Florida Monday night after students at a vigil for victims of the attacks on Israel panicked and…

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