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The family of Iyana Sawyer expressed gratitude and relief following the guilty verdict Thursday against Johnathan Quiles, the man who was accused of killing the pregnant 16-year-old in 2018. In a statement through their attorney, the family called Quiles a “predator” and asked everyone to keep their family in theirContinue Reading

A young man who was lost at sea for about 30 hours in early August was reunited Thursday with the crews who helped rescue him. Charles Gregory, 25, was swept out to the ocean while fishing in the Salt Run area early on the morning of Friday, Aug. 4. HeContinue Reading

Hundreds of students in Gainesville are living out of suitcases after being told the apartment complex they were supposed to move into is not ready to be occupied. The students were supposed to move into the luxury apartment complex, called UFORA, on Aug. 5. However, a month before move-in day,Continue Reading

Citizens property insurance policyholders are getting letters in the mail asking them to switch to private insurance companies. The state-backed “insurer of last resort” is switching 300,000 policies. Citizens currently has more than 1.4 million insurance policies. Sean Way from We Insure offered some advice on how to avoid anyContinue Reading

Lopez Vazquez appeared for an arraignment Thursday morning on three counts of DUI manslaughter and a fourth count of DUI with property damage. A not guilty plea was entered through an interpreter. Police say Vazquez, 40, was driving an F-250 on Aug. 24 when it slammed into a Honda FitContinue Reading

What started as a high-speed chase with a suspected reckless driver turned into a six-hour manhunt Thursday in Baker County. The Florida Highway Patrol said the 35-year-old driver, who had numerous warrants from other states, jumped out of his car and ran off but was eventually found and arrested aroundContinue Reading

The NTSB report in a 2021 plane crash in St. Augustine indicates the cause of the crash was two fuel injector lines improperly installed, and one was cracked and damaged. Three flight instructors were onboard the Beechcraft when it went down in the marsh off the runway of Northeast FloridaContinue Reading

At 2:00 p.m., the disturbance was centered near latitude 29.0 North, longitude 75.9 West. The system is moving toward the north near 9 mph and this general motion is expected to continue through early Friday. A north-northwestward to northward motion is forecast by late Friday and that motion should continueContinue Reading

PTC 16 and Mother Nature’s windy kisses are blowing leaves and pine needles off the trees with occasional showers and isolated thunderstorms.  Incidentally, the trees losing their leaves are Sycamore and Hickory, both native and deciduous. Now:  Partly cloudy to mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms.  Most are westContinue Reading