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Motorists are seeing the gas prices hit their highest average since October, yet motorists saw very little movement at the pump this week.

A High Springs woman was arrested Sunday on charges of lewd and lascivious behavior after deputies say she had sex with a teenage boy.

A 34-year-old Bronson man was killed when the pickup truck he was driving went off the road and hit a tree in Levy County on Sunday.

A crochet group meets at the Archer library at 11 a.m., ages 12 and up are welcome; and there’s a knit/crochet group also for ages 12 and up at the downtown library, meeting room B at 1 p.m.

Thanks to a collaboration among the Alachua County Health Department, the WIC program and local farmers, folks in east Gainesville now have a farmer's market right in their neighborhood.

An intersection in an area that was once rural but is now increasingly suburbanized and getting more traffic with the growth has the attention of reader Larry Croy.

Kevin Monroe was intrigued by a job at Cox Communications that involved more community service after several jobs in operations in the telecommunications industry, most recently as a vice president of service delivery for Windstream in Orlando.

Fun at the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings state park at noon includes some hoopla over a new rose variety named for the novelist.

A Gainesville man was arrested Friday on suspicion of having sex with a minor.

Firefighters on Saturday worked to control three separate wildfires along U.S. 301 south of Waldo.