Evan Warner

A student at Palatka Junior-Senior High School faces a felony gun charge over a pistol found in a pickup on school grounds, according to authorities.

Terrell Bradley and the city of Gainesville agreed on Monday to an August 2026 trial date stemming from a lawsuit he filed following a high-profile police K-9 biting incident in 2022.

Deputies seized over $1.7 million worth of narcotics, including enough fentanyl to kill the entire Tampa Bay area.

Authorities blamed Dean Gary Wayne Nelson, 52, of Crystal River for providing his wife, Christine Nelson, 47, with a deadly dose of meth that led her to overdose Jan. 27. The sheriff’s office there arrested Nelson earlier this week. He was being held without bond in the jail.

Gainesville has wrestled with a serious and persistent gun violence problem for years – and the numbers of surveillance cameras have been climbing – but it’s still rare for a shooting such as this one in 2022 to be captured on video and publicly seen.

A late-night house fire in Homosassa on Tuesday killed a retired woman who was trapped inside before firefighters could extinguish the blaze, firefighters in Citrus County and the woman’s family said.

Police in Ocala arrested a high school teacher after detectives who were investigating a student who brought a gun to school uncovered an 18-month relationship between the student and his teacher.

Investigators said they tied Jeremiah Charles White, 25, of Alachua to shootings in the summer of 2022 by matching bullet cases at the state police crime lab and surveillance video from the gunfire. In all the shootings, no one was hit by bullets, police said.

Jessica Marie Hord, 42, of Gainesville had been released from prison Saturday after serving less than a year behind bars in an unrelated felony drug and property crime conviction.

A woman pulled a man from his BMW and fled the scene, driving dangerously against oncoming traffic on one of the city’s busiest roads Tuesday until she crashed near the Interstate 75 interchange, authorities said.