12+ hour, 30+ min ago   (450+ words) The Atlantic basin has once again become a tropical graveyard, with dry air and atmospheric stability stifling any type of tropical development. The quiet pattern comes after multiple tropical waves and Tropical Storm Cristobal were tracked across the Atlantic, but…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (243+ words) An inmate died in custody Thursday in the Alachua County Jail, the Alachua County Sheriff's Office said. Chintan Shah, 40, was pronounced dead at 7:42 Thursday morning, according to a sheriff's office Facebook post. According to the post, detention officers were walking…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (246+ words) Inflation cooled a bit last month as gasoline and grocery prices fell. Consumer prices in July were up 3.4% from a year ago, according to a report Wednesday from the Labor Department. That's a smaller annual increase than in May or…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1181+ words) Voters in half a dozen states went to the polls Tuesday. The results highlight the ongoing conflicts within both parties ahead of the November midterms. Democratic primaries in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Connecticut signaled what the party's base may want from…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (75+ words) WUFT One more reminder as students head back to school: Florida's heat doesn't end with summer. Dangerous heat and humidity often continue well into the fall, and children may not realize they're overheating until it's too late. Encourage kids to…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1649+ words) More than 4,000 travelers motor through the tiny Panhandle town of Esto (pop. 375) each day, zipping past a meat processor, a Baptist church, and a three-employee town hall minutes from the Alabama state line. Esto received $235,000 from the state in 2024 to…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (800+ words) When Gainesville resident Billie Denunzio first tried her swing at pickleball over 10 years ago, she trotted out onto a tennis court at the Alachua County Senior Center with a wooden paddle in hand, trying to hit a wiffle ball over…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (158+ words) President Trump signed another executive order aimed at trying to upend the way U.S. children are vaccinated against dangerous infectious diseases. The new executive order, signed Monday afternoon in the Oval Office, calls for reducing the number of childhood vaccines recommended…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (35+ words) WUFT Iran aims to put pressure on Trump amid negotiations with Oman, Labor Department to release new report on inflation, new report reveals decades of abuse at arts school linked to Epstein....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (778+ words) Last year, Baltimore had three mass overdose incidents in the span of three months in its Penn North neighborhood. In one incident, more than two dozen people were hospitalized after many were found unresponsive, lying in the streets or on…...