With drastically lowered funds from GRU this year, the commission voted to increase property taxes. In the 2024 fiscal year, the millage rate will increase 29.2%.
Police say a woman called them stating “her son was trying to kill her.”
UF researchers will spend the next two years developing an economical trap to attract the mosquitoes using certain scents.
Alachua County Sheriff’s deputies have not charged Javon Barclay in connection with the deadly shooting but say they consider him a person of interest.
Gatorland’s vet examined the injured reptile and said she measured at 49 inches long and weighed just 3.3 kilograms – that’s about 7.3 pounds. The vet says she has a long, steep road ahead with that degree of malnutrition.
Detectives from the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office Tactical Impact Unit conducted a covert operation and purchased a large quantity of methamphetamine and later arrested two men at a Denny’s in Crystal River.
The College of Central Florida will host several events with award-winning poet Brian Turner on Oct. 18.
OPD arrested Jerry Aguilar, 39. They say he is a horse trainer and coach with children under his supervision.
NASA is livestreaming the touchdown of OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return, set for around 10:55 a.m. EDT.
Police say there was a long history of abuse and neglect in the home which contributed to the death of the one child and injury to the other.