Nicolas Maduro, Hugo Chavez's successor, beat candidate Henrique Capriles by a margin of less than one percent in the Venezuelan presidential elections on Sunday.

About 500 troops from around the country have been training in Ocala for the last 70 days to respond to natural disasters and terrorist attacks. Their training included practicing rescues from various locations and getting familiar with the decontamination process used after a biological weapon attack.

The Gainesville Police Department is asking the public for any information in an attempted sexual battery and armed robbery case that happened at The Enclave Apartments complex early Saturday morning.

The Alachua County Sheriff's Office caught three Gainesville men this weekend in an online sexual predator sting.

The connection between Agent Orange and Parkinson's disease has brought answers to many families, including Lieutenant Colonel Bill Holloway's family.

Jon Anderson can't run like he used to. The 66-year-old Vietnam veteran has been running marathons since 1976 and ultra marathons since 2003. But in 2008, Anderson stopped running, four years after he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

While many businesses went under after the economic crash that affected the country, one area business somehow managed to survive.  As Florida’s 89.1 WUFT-FM’s Alex de Armas reports, a local hardware store in High Springs has been up and running for decades, and it’s now a local institution

High Springs community members have their annual Pioneer day coming up. Florida’s 89.1, WUFT-FM’s Alex de Armas reports on what High Springs residents can expect from this year’s festivities. [audio:http://www.wuft.org/media/audio/PioneerDayWrapAD.mp3]  

George Zimmerman, the Sanford Neighborhood Watch Volunteer charged with second degree murder of Trayvon Marin, walked out of the John E. Polk Correctional Facility early this morning after posting bail. The Seminole County Sheriff’s Office says Zimmerman was fitted with a GPS monitoring device allowing authorities to track his location.  Florida’s 89.1, …

The size and scope of a community’s controversy is relative. A bigger city like Gainesville can become divided over things like tax hikes, biomass and bike paths, but Florida’s 89.1 WUFT-FM’s Alex de Armas reports in High Springs, an antebellum style gazebo has people talking and feelings stirred up. [audio:http://www.wuft.org/news/files/2012/04/FINALdeArmasgazebowrap.mp3]