Four K-9s from the Alachua County Sheriff's Office (ACSO) retired on May 30, 2025. The retiring K-9s, Ruger, Deacon, Kaos, and Jerry, served ACSO in various capacities, including patrol, drug ...

Over the years, local Eagle Scouts have made a difference throughout the community with their projects — a wooden playground ...

The Florida Highway Patrol responded to a fatal vehicle crash on U.S. 90 and Mohawk Trail on Friday night. According to a news release, at approximately 9:42 ...

Two new state laws aimed at protecting animals and increasing accountability for abusers are set to take effect in Florida, ...

An investigation reveals some cases of ineligible voters registering to vote or voting in Alachua County elections.

The new law makes it a felony to restrain a dog outside during a natural disaster. Anyone convicted could face a five-year ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed two bills  Wednesday that will increase fines and sentences for people convicted of abusing pets or ...

Florida Highway Patrol advocates want lawmakers to increase funding in the budget as the agency faces a trooper shortage that leaves them and the public vulnerable. “The public safety impact of ...

Police forces across America are known to occasionally add American muscle cars to their fleets, but the Florida Highway Patrol (a.k.a. the FHP) has just one-upped all of them — by adding a C8 ...

Trooper W.R. Kelly of the Florida Highway Patrol said he saw a man and ... around 4 p.m. that afternoon to give their police K-9 a break when they caught the couple. Kelly noted they saw "a ...

An athletic pup led Florida ... canine when she, tongue out and panting, seeing herself caught between two good Samaritans and an officer, turned around and hopped into the back of the trooper's ...

A trooper with a K-9 stopped to give the dog a rest break at about 4 p.m. Thursday near the Wild Cow Prairie Cemetery off Interstate 75 near Webster in Sumter County, according to an arrest report ...