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Services were held yesterday for Harold Nugent at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Gainesville. Mr. Nugent was better known as the “Alligator Man” to the thousands of school children he visited around the state as part of a joint effort with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission to teach kids …

As part of a ten year plan to end homelessness in Gainesville many local organizations provided services at the 12th annual “breakfast on the plaza.” 89.1 reporter Patrick Colden says the breakfast this morning was a complete success. [audio:http://www.wuft.org/media/audio/breakfast.mp3]

Amidst the chaotic media frenzy at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville over whether Pastor Terry Jones would or wouldn’t go through with burning the Quran on September 11th there was a more somber event unfolding at the Gainesville Regional Airport. Army Specialist Jamie Page came home Thursday from …

On the night before the Dove Outreach Center’s original plans to burn Qurans, the Gainesville community filled the Trinity United Methodist Church to send a message of peace and tolerance. Michael Gillespie was there. [audio:http://www.wuft.org/media/audio/peacegathering.mp3]

The Gainesville community held an interfaith service at a church in downtown Gainesville on Wednesday, September 8th, to show unity and disagreement with the actions planned by the Dove World Outreach Center. Jon Perry reports. [audio:http://www.wuft.org/media/audio/interfaithservice.mp3]

Over the weekend the Gainesville community dedicated a tombstone memorial to the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust. As WUFT-FM’s Kara Van Hoose reports, organizers say the memorial has deep meaning for the Jewish community in North Central Florida. [audio:http://www.wuft.org/media/audio/holocaustD.mp3]

We’ve all heard the saying, “you can do anything if you put your mind to it.” As WUFT’s Andrea Gazmuri reports, a paralyzed Florida woman proves just that. [audio:http://www.wuft.org/media/audio/Sailingsurvivor.mp3]

This summer marks 65 years since World War Two ended. An entire generation who holds the memories that made that war is disappearing every day. There are millions of men and women, those who weren’t the celebrities, who still remember details from their experiences. Kari Beckerman has the story of …

Wes Skiles from High Springs was an internationally recognized underwater photographer and explorer. His death on Wednesday has shocked his friends and colleagues across the state. He was pronounced dead Wednesday afternoon after his body was found at the bottom of a reef off Palm Beach Coast while filming for …

Renowned underwater photographer Wes Skiles has died. Skiles, from High Springs was pronounced dead Wednesday afternoon after his body was found at the bottom of a reef off Palm Beach Coast. Skiles, a freelance photographer for National Geographic also owned his own production company, Karst Productions and Karst Environmental Services. …