Published: Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, January 2, 2010 at 9:12 p.m. The Ben & Jerry's ice cream shop convenient to those on the University of Florida campus has closed its doors.

Prosecutor named to replace Smith as County Judge James T. Browning has experience handling sex crimes, domestic violence and drug cases.

Published: Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 4:59 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 4:59 p.m. A man accused of beating his girlfriend and her 7-year-old son with a baseball bat and leaving them in a pool of blood on her kitchen floor claimed Thursday he was acting in self-defense. Despite the claim, Daniel Steven Fucci, 46, was ...

Published: Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, December 4, 2009 at 4:00 p.m. As a little girl, Mary Hope spent as much time at Bethlehem Presbyterian Church in Archer as she did at the Methodist church she belonged to up the street.

A central Florida man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for beating his girlfriend and her son with a baseball bat.

A population explosion of pot-bellied pigs behind Arredondo Farms off Archer Road has a rescue group hoping for a roundup, fearful the animals are being attacked by dogs and will continue breeding unless captured.

Published: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 6:37 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 6:37 p.m. An Archer pastor was slapped with a $100,000 judgment related to complaints of defrauding church members who loaned him money to build houses.

Less than two weeks ago Felicia Fine, 22, married Charles Edwin Duke, 23. Wednesday night they argued at their home in Cedar Key.

Published: Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 4:44 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 4:44 p.m. A mother and her daughter from Archer are among three people who died Friday night when a private plane bound from Gainesville to Lakeland crashed north of Tampa.

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Published: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at 6:56 p.m. Morning crash blocks traffic on Archer Road One person was seriously injured in a three-vehicle crash on Archer Road in which a car and a sport utility vehicle collided head-on Tuesday morning, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.

A central Florida man has pleaded no contest to beating his girlfriend and her son with a baseball bat.

Published: Monday, September 14, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 10:52 p.m. The first count of the year in Alachua County schools showed student numbers were up slightly from the end of last school year.

The Space shuttle Discovery streaks across the sky as it clears a cloud bank as seen from Archer, Fla.

The Space shuttle Discovery streaks across the sky as it clears a cloud bank as seen from Archer, Fla.

Space shuttle Discovery lights up the night as it streaks across the sky past the 122-year-old Ponce de Leon Inlet lighthouse in Ponce Inlet, Fla., after 11:59pm lift-off from Kennedy Space Centre at Cape Canaveral, Fla.

With the 100th anniversary of Boy Scouts of America coming up next February, our Jayhawk Area Council is bracing for the big event by printing up the recollections of young Scouts, and "young at heart" Scouts.

The Florida Highway Patrol has arrested the suspect involved in a early Thursday morning fatal crash.