There will be a new Alachua County sheriff in 2025. Incumbent Clovis Watson told Supervisor of Elections Kim Barton this week that he’s withdrawing from next year’s campaign and will return the eight thousand dollars he raised for reelection. Watson defeated longtime sheriff Sadie Darnell in the 2020 Democratic primary …
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Now, after more than two decades, it is run strictly by the sheriff’s office and is known as the Sheriff's Office Aviation Unit.
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Ironically, Darnell was voted out in August. She lost the Democratic primary to Clovis Watson Jr., a former state lawmaker. There was no Republican opponent in Tuesday night’s general election.
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All results are unofficial until county-level canvassing boards certify votes later this month.
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Jennifer Mccray Littles spends the days awaiting progress in the criminal trial against former detention officer Jerome Ulrich for charges of battery and tampering with a victim — her son, Joseph Combs.
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Clovis Watson IV, 27, of Gainesville, acknowledged that he followed and harassed his former girlfriend of two years, deputy Maddison Telle wrote in an arrest complaint.
Read More »In a week's time, case counts have near doubled at the county jail.
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Custom guide for voters in the 2020 Union County Primary Election, Aug. 18.
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