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Milton is starting to leave northern Yucatán and head to Florida. It will move a bit faster today, and the powerful hurricane will make landfall in Tampa Bay around midnight Thursday.

From Gainesville With Love, a part of the Sister City Program, hosted Haitian visitors in a cultural exhibition that introduced locals to traditional Voodoo rituals through live mural paintings and music. The partnership between the two groups was formed to educate the two cities about each other by bringing artists and volunteers from Gainesville to Jacmel and Jacmel to Gainesville. Jacmel was once the capital of the french colonial empire, which is one of Haiti’s only tourist cities and has been called Haiti’s cultural capital.

The Alachua County Public Schools District is collecting food items for the Holiday Food Drive until Dec. 12 and will accept money donations until Dec. 18. The food boxes will benefit about 1,000 families this year.

Three types of kingsake found in Florida have been upgraded to species status thanks to a study conducted by researchers from the Florida Museum of Natural History.

Alachua County produces waste the equivalent of more than 2 million Americans. But not everyone knows where this waste goes.

State Rep. Keith Perry, R-Gainesville, raised $53,050 during the second half of March to help fuel his campaign for the Senate seat, bringing his overall total to $98,275.

Jesse Nelson is not only an avid collector of World War II memorabilia, he also enjoys meeting the men whose history he collects.

Joe Catalano hosted the second Cedar Key Pirate Invasion on Thursday to raise money and collect food donations to the Cedar Key Food Pantry and to increase the tourist season in the area from four months to six months. The invasion raised $700 and 300 pounds of canned food for the pantry.

A group of 17 University of Florida staff members and students are headed to Washington D.C. to document the inauguration of Donald Trump and the Women's March on Washington the following day.

Tim Tebow's Foundation, the Tim Tebow Foundation, launched a relief effort for victims of the recent typhoon in the Philippines.The foundation is collecting funds to distribute to ministries helping those impacted in the area.