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A few months back, my girlfriend Sharona and I road-tripped from St. Petersburg to Atlanta to seek out nerdtastic Walking Dead filming locations.

Financial pressures likely contributed to a helicopter pilot's decision to continue flying through deteriorating weather before crashing in north Florida, killing a Mayo Clinic heart surgeon and technician on their way to retrieve a heart for transplant in 2011, according to a report from the National Transportation Safety Board.

The JSO bomb squad is on the scene of a meth lab investigation in Arlington. One building of Kings Inn on Arlington Expressway was evacuated Tuesday morning.

One of the University of Central Florida 's teacher-education programs made the "honor roll" in a new national review, and UCF was one of just 13 institutions nationally to earn top ratings for at least two of its teacher-prep programs.

Having a designated driver sounds like a great idea, but a new study found that more than one-third of those who were supposed to drive their pals home safely had been boozing it up themselves.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- With less than three months until the season begins, GatorBait.net takes a look ahead and continues its schedule breakdown.

I posted a version of this on my own personal blog two weeks ago, but wanted to share it with the DailyKos community.

Don't feel bad. I didn't either until March 1, when I attended orientation in Tallahassee at the Division of Cultural Affairs for the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.

Florida Gators sophomore linebacker Antonio Morrison was arrested early Sunday morning after allegedly punching a bouncer outside a Gainesville nightclub.

A week and a half after being bitten in the leg by an eastern diamondback rattlesnake, Ben Smith remains in the pediatric intensive care unit at UF Health Shands Hospital.

Jun. 14, 2013 - BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Howard Helfant , partner of 101 Cantina Boca Raton has announced that every day from 4PM-6M will be Happy Hour at his Royal Palm Place nightspot.

A Jacksonville man injured when he dived into Clay County's Kingsley Lake Thursday was taken to a Gainesville hospital in serious condition, according to the Clay County Sheriff's Office.

This is not so funny. Have you noticed? The lakes and their connector to Lake Eustis, always dark from tannins, have turned a murky brown.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A new University of Florida study suggests a promising brain-imaging technique has the potential to improve diagnoses for the millions of people with movement disorders such as Parkinson's disease.

Putting infants to sleep on their backs, recommended since the 1990s, has helped reduce the rate of sudden infant death syndrome.

But during a test run in March for a new project, it is soaring through the bluest of skies.

When asked to what she attributed her long life, mother would always say, "I laugh a lot!" And, indeed she did.

Having a designated driver sounds like a great idea, but a new study found that more than one-third of those who were supposed to drive their pals home safely had been boozing it up themselves.

Pedro Bravo, charged with the first-degree murder of Christian Aguilar , appeared at the Alachua County Courthouse on Tuesday in a red jumpsuit.

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