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Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • WUFT News Special Report: Today WUFT News launches The Price of Plenty, a special report on the fertilizer industry by student journalists from the University of Florida and the University of Missouri. Funded by …
Read More »Former death row inmates slam new Florida law making it easier to impose capital punishment
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – With Florida making it easier for juries to impose the death sentence, two formerly condemned inmates who are still behind bars are warning that the change gives too much power over life and death to elected prosecutors. Their concerns are at odds with some families of murder …
Read More »Behind the scenes of Florida’s efforts to purge schools of books deemed improper
CLEARWATER, Fla. – With a scanner like ones used at grocery stores plugged into her computer, Paula Stephens spent her 30-minute planning period scanning two boxes of books from her classroom library. Those two green boxes had roughly 55 books, and her first-grade classroom at Eisenhower Elementary has about 40 …
Read More »Alachua County student heads to National Spelling Bee after winning regional competition
Westin Martin, an eighth grader from Lincoln Middle School, will compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Maryland beginning May 30. Martin outlasted 13 students in the First Coast Spelling Bee in Jacksonville this month to win his qualifying spot.
Read More »The Point, March 29, 2023: Special Report: The psychology of risk
Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • WUFT News Special Report: Living on the Edge: Risk. For the six-month anniversary of Hurricane Ian, we’re publishing Living on the Edge, a five-part series on Florida’s barrier islands in an era …
Read More »The Point, March 27, 2023: Gator Fly-In honors military at Gainesville Regional Airport
Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • WUFT News: Gator Fly-In returns to Gainesville for Armed Services Day. “Members of the media got a chance to fly in the clouds above The Swamp. It’s a day meant to commemorate …
Read More »The Point, Feb. 22, 2023: Archeologists want community involvement in historic cemeteries
Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • WUFT News: Archeologists encourage community involvement in cemeteries. “While people looked to the living for comfort during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Nigel Rudolph turned to stories of the dead as …
Read More »The Point, Feb. 14, 2023: New study reveals “forever chemicals” in freshwater fish
Subscribe to The Point, arriving in your inbox Monday through Friday at 8 a.m. The stories near you • WUFT News: Why women and racial minorities are underrepresented in the US Foreign Service. “WUFT’s Report for America Corps Member Katie Hyson spoke with two African American women in the service – …
Read More »Egg shortage cracks down on Gainesville consumers and businesses
Gainesville businesses are feeling the pinch in the price of eggs, and now they're contending with an egg shortage caused by the bird flu.
Read More »Unsecured guns and unintended deaths: A preventable epidemic?
Editor’s note: This is the first of five articles this week that explore the consequences of unintended shootings in Florida. Click the links here to access the series intro, Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IV. Schools were closed in Clay County because of Hurricane Irma on Sept. …
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