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Prendergast said he will recommend Al Carter, the Veterans' Affairs deputy executive director, as his replacement.

Gov. Rick Scott discussed tax cuts and successful Florida businesses, including a million-dollar lacrosse equipment company started two years ago by now 15-year-old Rachel Zietz of Boca Raton.

Owners at Mt. Citra Farm are hoping to change the way Floridians purchase and eat local food to overcome the increased of out-of-state buying of produce.

The University of Florida was named a 2016 Military Friendly® School for its resources available to the nearly 1,000 veterans and active-duty military members enrolled as students.

The Florida Department of Corrections partnered with the Florida National Guard to hire veterans and military personnel who are unemployed. These specialty hiring events last all day and are open to all branches in the Florida National Guard and Reserves.

The new Fisher House in Gainesville will allow families of veterans undergoing treatment at the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center a place of comfort during treatment.

One local eatery is expanding its clientele by moving cupcake delivery online to retail sites like Etsy and Amazon.com.

WUFT News measured this past month the noise in areas near Gainesville Renewable Energy Center's biomass plant, which some locals said disrupts their daily lives.

Frank Brown still recalls what it was like trying to enroll in college after returning home from Vietnam. It wasn't easy. Many years later, he's among a group of Orange Lake veterans who try to be more welcoming to a new generation of returning soldiers.

The memorial, in Kanapaha Park at the intersection of Tower Road and Southwest 41st Place, shows U.S. military engagements from the American Revolution to Operation Enduring Freedom, including the Afghanistan War.