5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (149+ words) GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Miguel Angel Rodriguez-Morgado, 57, was arrested yesterday after allegedly touching a lawncare worker’s genitals and propositioning him. At about 4:46 p.m. on September 7, an Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputy responded to Rodriguez-Morgado’s home, where the victim said he had been…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (158+ words) Release from Alachua County Sheriff’s Office HAWTHORNE, Fla. – In the late afternoon of Monday, August 24, multiple Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a report that a person was shot in the 6000 block of SE 225th Street. Once on scene, deputies located…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (237+ words) Alachua Chronicle Press release from Gainesville City Commissioner Bryan Eastman GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Gainesville City Commissioner Bryan Eastman was named the 2026 Local Government Housing Champion today at the Florida Housing Coalition’s REPAIR Conference 2026 in Orlando. Eastman received the local government honor…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (369+ words) GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Kenneth Ellis Wetherington, 60, has been sentenced to 14 months in federal prison for one count of possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon. The sentence was announced by John P. Heekin, United States Attorney for the…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (209+ words) Press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Florida GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Antrell Jermaine Hillard, 33, of Live Oak, has been sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment for conspiracy to steal postal keys, theft of postal keys, and postal robbery/assault. The sentence…...