Archer News

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.

About 25 shots were fired by an Archer man Friday night after he unexpectedly came home to find his wife with another man, according to the Alachua County Sheriff's Office.

Published: Monday, June 22, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. Last Modified: Monday, June 22, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. A man and woman escaped a house fire without injury early Monday after being wakened by their smoke detector.

The road will be totally closed at the railroad crossing just west of U.S. 27/41 in the town of Archer beginning at 5 a.m on Tuesday and ending by 5 p.m. on Friday to replace the railroad crossing.

State Road 24 in Archer to close next week for railroad crossing repair Traffic affected Tuesday through Friday Southwest Archer Road in the town of Archer will be closed for four days next week while the railroad crossing just west of U.S. 27/41 is rebuilt, according to the Florida Department of Transportation .

Published: Friday, June 19, 2009 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 10:32 p.m. The Alachua County School District received an "A" for the third straight year when the Florida Department of Education released school grades Thursday, but the district also had two elementary schools receive a score of "F" and three high schools a ...

A rural Barneveld man was convicted June 5 in federal court in Gainesville, Fla., of attempting to dispose of assets involved in a forfeiture proceeding.

David Levy Yulee was a U.S. senator who brought the railroad to Alachua County 150 years ago, and the late Bo Diddley was a Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame member and Archer resident.

Franco issued a statement saying he canceled his Friday appearance because of conflicts with preproduction demands for his next film.