Faith Smith

The Florida Museum of Natural History has published a draft of a book known as “The Butterflies of California.” When the authors first started writing it, initial estimates were that it would take about five years. Instead, it took five decades.

Crying can be the body’s natural process of healing, according to Kanika Inglett, a former microbiology professor at the University of Florida, who says tears help release pent-up stress and tension. And it’s not simply water and salt that’s being released in a tear, it is the actual stress hormone.

WUFT reporter Faith Smith took her curiosity of idioms to University of Florida Linguistics Professor Jamie Garner.

Marion County veterans groups will host an event to support veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder on Nov. 18 in Ocala.

For Halloween this year, city officials are asking parents to be even more mindful of their children's safety.