Luena Rodriguez-Feo Vileira
Luena is a reporter for WUFT News who can be reached by calling 352-392-6397 or emailing news@wuft.org.
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Lexi Burks didn’t join law enforcement for the money. In fact, she grew up telling herself she’d never become a cop, despite her interest in criminal…
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On Saturday mornings, nearly 300 visitors at Haile Farmers Market line up for one vendor. Each customer shares a slice of information: They know the…
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The 150-mph winds and 13-foot storm surge generated by Hurricane Ian have long receded since the storm made landfall in Florida over a year ago. But…
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Tamari Davis took home the gold medal in the women's 4x100-meter relay at the World Championships held in Budapest in August. She joined teammates Gabrielle Thomas, Twanisha Terry and Sha'Carri Richardson to set a championship record with a time of 41.03.
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Nearly 2,000 horses across northern Florida sought refuge from the threat of Hurricane Idalia Wednesday after the World Equestrian Center opened its…
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B. Keith Councell is a beekeeper stripped of his bees – 2,800 of them spread across his farms in Arcadia, Cape Coral, Pine Island and Fort Myers. His honeybees were among the 400,000 Florida bee colonies in Hurricane Ian’s path in September. Ian decimated 100,000 total hives, which were toppled and drowned in 12-foot storm surges as high as eight beehives. The state’s surviving bees were left starving from the storm’s destruction of foliage, the bees' source of energy and protein. Deprived of bees, feed and equipment, beekeepers have found relief among themselves.
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She wakes up to a pitch-black sky, hours before arriving at the cancer center. The sun still hasn’t risen by the time she’s dressed in scrubs, driving to…
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A crushed Pepsi can, damp cigarette butts, a rusted tire wheel buried deep in soggy mulch. They’re part of the debris collected after a day’s work for Current Problems, an Alachua County-based waterway cleanup organization. By the end of the year, the junk-filled bags Current Problems hauls away at cleanups will reach a milestone: 1 million pounds of total trash collected.