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A man with a long record of dangerous driving told investigators he smoked marijuana oil and took prescription drugs hours before he sideswiped a bus, killing eight Mexican farmworkers and injuring dozens more.
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Save Our Rural Areas also fights to keep development in the county within the urban growth boundary. Tim Gant, the group’s president, got involved when his home was threatened by the development of a subdivision.
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Governor Ron Desantis is awarding more than $6 million to communities impacted by Hurricane Idalia.
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Dozens of people craving a sweet time headed to Amber Brooke Farms in Williston to celebrate their annual Strawberry Festival.
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At Riverbend Cattle Company, the pair raise cattle and three children on a farm with a rich old Florida feel and a 100-year-old historical background.
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Abigail Perret-Gentil left her job at a biotech to start a nonprofit organization called Grace Grows to combat this food desert.
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Robert “Bob” Knight, the founder of FSI, said he fears Silver Springs will meet the same fate as Gilchrest Blue Spring. In July, a sinkhole opened in the spring and flooded the water with sediment. He said it’s all empty and almost dead now. Nitrate levels are at a high, and about a third of the spring’s flow is lost.
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Only one southeastern state has legalized marijuana for medical use: the Sunshine State, known for “the Florida Man,” tales of wacky adventures, and for many an increasingly open-minded outlook on adult recreational use of cannabis.
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Chickens are more susceptible to dying after hurricanes because of how farmers have to keep them. Chickens require raised houses and need to be kept cool to survive. This means hurricane-force winds alone can take down countless chicken houses and power outages can overheat them, effectively putting local farmers out of livestock and business.
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The trees that drew Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings to Cross Creek—citrus—now imperiled at her former home. In 1928, writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and her…
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It’s an udderly puzzling mystery: Whose Brahman steer did sheriff’s deputies wrangle in a rural community near High Springs? Tongues-in-cheeks, deputies…
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LAFAYETTE, Fla. — Summer crops have been harvested, and the hurricane season is almost over – but Florida farmers now face off-season decisions about how…