Debra Garcia
Debra is a reporter for WUFT News who can be reached by calling 352-392-6397 or emailing news@wuft.org.
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Micanopy town officials are working to host a special election for commissioner seat No. 3, which was left vacant because no one filed to run for it.
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As Casey leaned against the wooden railing on the third-floor unit in Seacrest, it suddenly gave way – “the next thing I knew, I was falling to the ground,” he said – and he plummeted backward into sand dunes and foliage below. The avid golfer and daily jogger from Atlanta was badly injured.
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Fifteen people were injured in a three-vehicle accident involving an ambulance, a pickup truck and a small bus Tuesday morning in Marion County. According…
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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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Firefighters in Crystal River extinguished a fire at a rural home Tuesday and rescued 15 chickens, six dogs, six rabbits, two goats and a ferret. No one…
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After months of listening to a dog whining and yelping in distress from what they believed was physical abuse, neighbors banded together to call police on…
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A Journal mBio study confirmed Hurricane Ian, which struck Southwest Florida in September 2022, unleashed various Vibrio bacteria that can cause illness…
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Authorities in Dixie County have arrested a widow and her two sons in connection with the death of a man in 2021 whose body was found in a canal after a…
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A felon who the Justice Department described as a high-level drug dealer in Alachua County was sentenced Friday to a decade in federal prison.Charles…
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Four days after a dog slipped his leash at a vigil held at the University of Florida for victims of the attacks in Israel, Koda the pitbull mix is back…