Trai Williams, 28, entered a guilty plea to federal drug trafficking charges after law enforcement raided his Gainesville apartment in October and found more than 100 grams of carfentanil — a drug lethal in doses as small as two milligrams — along with fentanyl and heroin. Williams is scheduled to be sentenced on September 1 and could receive anywhere from ten years to a life sentence in federal prison.
Sources: WCJB TV20
A Florida woman identified as Brittany Clark was caught in an alligator’s death roll before her boyfriend intervened and freed her from the animal’s grip, according to a medical report. The incident details were reported by the Gainesville Sun based on medical documentation of the attack.
Sources: The Gainesville Sun
A 44-year-old Live Oak woman died Wednesday night after a vessel struck a dock in Gilchrist County, knocking her and another person into the Suwannee River near the Rock Bluff Conservation Area. Rescue teams searched for nearly six hours before recovering her body around 1 a.m. Thursday. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating the accident.
Sources: WCJB TV20
A judge ruled Thursday to dismiss the individual doctors and pharmacists named as defendants in a wrongful death lawsuit against UF Health Shands, stemming from the March 2024 death of two-year-old De’Markus Page. The family alleges Page died after receiving a potassium dose ten times higher than intended due to a decimal-point error in a medication order. The hearing focused on whether Florida’s sovereign immunity protections shield state-employed healthcare providers from being sued individually absent specific factual allegations of misconduct outside those protections.
Sources: WCJB TV20
