Staff and customers at a Stuart restaurant were surprised by an uninvited guest Monday afternoon when a gator was spotted just a few feet away from the front door.

The ice cream shop, located at 14841 Main St. in Alachua, welcomes teens to its second-floor event space on Fridays and ...

No, it wasn’t frozen alligator meat or even the Publix mascot (who is actually a dinosaur). A driver spotted a living-and-breathing alligator hanging out in a Publix parking lot on Sunday.