Ramon Horner

Misinformation about the shootings this week at Florida State University flew furiously online and over the airwaves in the hours after a lone gunman, identified as 20-year-old FSU student, fatally shot two victims and wounded six others.

A months-long narcotics investigation led to the arrest of a convicted felon and the seizure of over 11 pounds of illegal drugs from a Melrose residence.

A judge sentenced an Ocala man to 15 years in prison for shooting a woman near the University of Florida last fall, even though the victim said the shooting was accidental.

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.

University police had arrested Brown on March 5 inside the UF classroom building Keene-Flint Hall during a history lecture. A video that circulated on social media showed at least four uniformed officers holding down Brown as a fifth officer in plain clothes watched.

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.

“I got what I wanted, which was to have her disbarred. She hurt other people way worse than she hurt me,” a former client said.