Elliot Tritto
Elliot is a reporter for WUFT News who can be reached by calling 352-392-6397 or emailing news@wuft.org.
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WUFT · Ghost shark researchUniversity of Florida researchers explored the Pacific Northwest's deep waters this summer to learn about the mystifying ghost…
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WUFT · Bicentennial Tree serviceTwenty years ago, Jack Davis started teaching environmental history at the University of Florida. On most work days…
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Even as national attention focuses on Florida and other states controlling what books students can read, some Alachua County teachers haven’t faced any…
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Gina Montalto lost her life five years ago during the Majory Stoneman Douglas school shooting.Her father, Tony, said on Tuesday during the five-year…
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Florida’s outgoing Democratic agricultural commissioner, Nikki Fried, is asking the Justice Department to knock down former President Donald Trump's…
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Mark Bleiweis, his wife, Jennifer, and his sister-in-law left their seats early during Saturday night’s football game between Florida and Georgia. As they exited the TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, they heard shouting from a sea of people – but it wasn’t about touchdowns. It took a few seconds for Bleiweis, a University of Florida professor and heart surgeon, to track the shouting. He said he saw a group of men, young and middle-aged, yelling antisemitic remarks. The sheriff’s office said no crimes were committed because the comments were protected as free speech.
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After a second consecutive year of mysterious thefts of "Top 5" banners hung across campus to commemorate its national ranking among public universities,…
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The White House has released data that shows more than 2 million Florida borrowers could benefit from the Biden Administration's plan for student debt relief.
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Imagine this: A witness called police to report a silver station wagon on fire with only three tires being driven along one of the city’s roads that border the University of Florida campus. When police tried to pull the car over, the driver didn’t immediately stop. Authorities accuse 23-year-old Adrian Vincent Hernandez of Gainesville of fleeing police, resisting an officer and driving with a suspended license. It wasn’t clear whether the driver was missing a spare tire or didn’t know how to change one. Police said Hernandez told them he didn’t stop because he just wanted to get home in the hours after midnight Sunday.
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Alachua County Circuit Judge James M. Colaw last week sentenced Deontre Donnell Mason, 25, of Carterville, Illinois, to one year of house arrest followed by four years of probation with electronic monitoring. Mason pleaded no contest to nine felony charges of video voyeurism.