Jared Teitel

University graduation ceremonies across Florida are near and for some college seniors, the diploma symbolizes overcoming particularly difficult challenges.

The move brings Florida's law against stalking into the digital age, when inexpensive and widely available technology makes it easier than ever to track someone's movements minute by minute without their knowledge.

North Florida Hospital removed one of its vice presidents and fired other employees nearly six weeks after non-emergency surgeries abruptly halted with concerns about sterilized operating room equipment.

Florida lawmakers in Tallahassee are considering major changes to the state's Purple Alerts used to help find missing adults who suffer from an intellectual or developmental disability.

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration visited HCA Florida North Florida Hospital earlier this month to conduct a formal inspection, AHCA communications staff confirmed.

The Florida Public Archaeology Network hosted a two-day Cemetery Resource Protection Training conference. WUFT’s Noelimary Suarez reports a number of groups attended the event including local descendants, caretakers and historians.

This month marks six years since the Ocala Police Department announced its Heroin/Opioid Amnesty program. The department launched the program in response to growing opioid overdoses in the city; however, cases continue to rise.

The facility opened at 5125 NE 63rd Ave. in 1999, collecting materials containing common toxins from residential and commercial buildings in Alachua County and neighboring areas such as the Gilchrist, Putnam, Dixie and Lafayette counties.

Terrence Fitzpatrick, 92, and Donald Sherry, 88, were just teenagers when they were shipped to Germany in the wake of the Korean War.Now, the retirees are…

Alena Lawson Bennett served over two decades as a lieutenant with the Gainesville Police Department (GPD) and later as chief investigator of the…