Newberry News

Published: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 4:35 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 4:35 p.m. An assistant state attorney was suspended from her job this week after being arrested on a charge of drunken driving.

Published: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, December 14, 2009 at 11:51 p.m. The students at Oakview Middle School in Newberry have spent several days telling principal Karen Clarke goodbye before they leave on Friday to start the two-week winter break.

Published: Monday, December 14, 2009 at 11:01 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, December 14, 2009 at 11:01 a.m. A man who claimed his truck got stuck after a fishing trip outside Newberry wound up in jail Saturday night.

Published: Friday, December 11, 2009 at 4:24 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, December 11, 2009 at 4:24 p.m. There may not be snow in Gainesville, but the acreage behind Cathryn and John Gregory home in northwest Gainesville is a winter wonderland nonetheless.

Published: Saturday, December 12, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, December 11, 2009 at 10:34 p.m. There may not be snow in Gainesville, but the acreage behind Cathryn and John Gregory home in northwest Gainesville is a winter wonderland nonetheless.

From left, Lynyrd Skynyrd singer Johnny Van Zant and brother Donnie Van Zant of 38 Special stand with 9-year-old Earl Gardner, who holds an Ibanez guitar autographed by the singers and other members of Lynyrd Skynyrd to be sold Saturday in a raffle to raise medical funds for Earl, who received burns to 40 percent of his body in 2007.

A new scam is going around on the internet, and this time, it's going under the name of H1N1.

Share + Dec 2, 2009 7:22 pm US/Eastern GOLDEN BEACH Golden Beach police lieutenant Robert Barrio remains on the job seven months after being arrested in Alachua county on charges of kidnapping, false imprisonment and battery.

Published: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 1:03 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 1:03 p.m. The Alachua County Health Department will offer free H1N1 swine flu vaccines Saturday, Dec.

Published: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 4:13 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 4:13 p.m. Alachua County students will begin receiving the H1N1 vaccine next week as part of the countywide immunization effort.

Published: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 7:51 p.m. Last Modified: Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 7:51 p.m. Newberry officials have long had plans for their own field of dreams and believe that, if they build it, youth baseball teams will come in droves -- boosting business for local hotels, restaurants and retail shops.

Published: Monday, October 26, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 10:15 p.m. A large gap exists between transportation needs and funds, Gainesville city commissioners learned last week in a two-hour-long workshop on the future of public transit in Alachua County.

Published: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, October 26, 2009 at 10:33 p.m. A motorcyclist accused of leading a Gilchrist County deputy on a high-speed chase before crashing into the back of a sport utility vehicle Saturday night in Newberry was in serious condition Monday.

Published: Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 10:29 p.m. Last Modified: Sunday, October 25, 2009 at 10:29 p.m. A motorcyclist fleeing authorities crashed in downtown Newberry Saturday night into the back of another vehicle, seriously injuring the motorcycle driver.

Alachua County may soon see a new industry to save the local economy. Alachua County Delegation is touring the Vulcan Materials Plant today in Newberry to promote the state's concrete industry.

Published: Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, October 9, 2009 at 10:42 p.m. In a letter dated Sept.

One of two men who assaulted another man while shouting anti-gay epithets outside the Westend Package Bar in Newberry, Florida, near Gainesville, in early September, has been arrested and charged.

Published: Saturday, October 3, 2009 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, October 3, 2009 at 12:34 a.m. The haunted ghouls, goblins and monsters are coming out of their hiding places for Halloween, and the farms of North Central Florida are ready.

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.

I missed the 58th Annual Watermelon Festival in Newberry a couple of weeks ago, spending more time than I planned in the neighboring Alachua County town of High Springs.