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Late Musician Tom Petty Receives Posthumous Ph.D. for Music
Nearly two decades after earning a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and more than four years after his death, rock icon Tom Petty has been awarded a honorary Ph.D. from the University of Florida.
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Sports World Remembers, Honors 9/11 Anniversary With Tributes
Teams, athletes and coaches from across the country honored the 20th anniversary of 9/11 on Saturday.
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Florida Veterinarians Remove Shoe From Crocodile's Stomach
University of Florida veterinarians surgically removed a shoe swallowed twice by the same hungry crocodile, the school said.
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Veterinarian Surgically Removes Shoe Inside 341-Pound Crocodile
A veterinary surgeon at the UF Veterinary Hospital surgically removed a shoe from the stomach of a 10.5-foot, 341-pound Nile crocodile.
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Florida's Johnson Remains in Critical, Stable Condition
Florida forward Keyontae Johnson remains in critical but stable condition at a hospital one day after he collapsed on the court during a game at Florida State
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Researchers Question Census Bureau's New Approach to Privacy
In an age of rapidly advancing computer power, the U.S. Census Bureau recently undertook an experiment to see if census answers could threaten the privacy of the people who fill out the questionnaires. The agency went back to the last national headcount, in 2010, and reconstructed individual profiles from thousands of publicly available tables. It then matched those records against...
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Plant Lovers Find Each Other at Swaps, Online or in Person
Plant lovers have long gotten together to trade seeds and growing advice, and the latest generation is following suit with modern plant swaps. The swaps (sometimes called plant exchanges) for amateur horticulturalists are popping up in homes, parking lots, trendy gardening stores and online. They’re about exchanging advice and meeting like-minded people, says 35-year-old Ana Carlson, who has attended several...
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Researchers Discover Glow-in-the-Dark Shark in Gulf Of Mexico
It’s not as dangerous as you might think.
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Is Flesh-Eating Bacteria on the Rise? Everything You Need to Know About Necrotizing Fasciitis
Carolyn Fleming of Ellenton, Florida, may have been the latest person to die of a flesh-eating bacteria infection, which she contracted swimming off the coast of Anna Maria Island in Florida, her family says. Cases of the deadly infection, called necrotizing fasciitis, may be on the rise because of climate change.
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Game of Thrones Fans Are Angry About the Final Season – and the Franchise Could Suffer for It
On Sunday night, the final episode of the HBO’s “Game of Thrones” will air. This has been the highest-rated season in the show’s history, with last week’s episode watched by 18.4 million people, its most massive audience ever. With numbers like that, it would seem that the series is going out on a high note, which is good news for...
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Mexico Finds ‘Flayed Lord' Temple; Priests Wore Skins of Dead
Mexican experts have found the first temple of the Flayed Lord, a pre-Hispanic fertility god depicted as a skinned human corpse, authorities said Wednesday. Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History said the find was made during recent excavations of Popoloca Indian ruins in the central state of Puebla. The institute said experts found two skull-like stone carvings and a...
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Midterm Turnout Surges to 50-Year High, Early Estimates Show
Voter turnout soared in the 2018 midterm elections, according to an early projection in a new study, potentially reaching the highest level in over 50 years. An estimated 48.1 percent of eligible voters cast ballots, over 113 million people in total, according to research by University of Florida Professor Michael McDonald, who runs the U.S. Election Project. If that holds...
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Israel's Supreme Court Overturns Deportation of Former UF Student From Broward County
The lawyers say that under Thursday’s ruling, Lara Alqasem will be released from detention immediately and allowed to study at Hebrew University, where she had been registered for classes.
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Uno — Florida Panther Blinded by Shotgun — Dies in Naples Zoo After Surgery
A one-eyed Florida panther named Uno has died at a Florida zoo.
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Ohio State's Meyer Defends Self, Ex-Assistant Denies Abuse
Urban Meyer is insisting that he properly handled 2015 allegations of domestic violence against one of his assistant coaches at the time, though he acknowledged he was not forthright with reporters when questioned last week about the claims. The assistant Meyer fired, Zach Smith, also spoke up on Friday, denying that he abused his ex-wife, backing his former boss and...
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Einstein's Theory of Relativity Passes Yet Another Test
More than a century after Albert Einstein proposed it, his theory of general relativity has passed another test. With giant telescopes pointed at the center of our galaxy, a team of European researchers observed a fast-moving star that got close to a monstrous black hole. They saw that the black hole distorted the light waves from the star in a...
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Walmart Offers Employees New Perk: Cheap Access to College
Walmart is offering its employees a new perk: affordable access to a college degree. America’s largest private employer, which in the past has helped its workers get their high school or equivalency degrees, hopes the new benefit will help it recruit and retain higher quality entry-level employees in a tight U.S. labor market. The company is working with Denver-based startup...
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Kent State Grad Unapologetic Over Campus Rifle Photos
A Kent State University graduate is not apologizing for posting graduation photos of herself carrying a rifle on campus. Kaitlin Bennett tweeted that she could “arm herself” now that she was a graduate. Along with the AR-10 rifle, the photo shows a mortar board with the words: “Come and take it.” The school prohibits students, faculty and staff from carrying...
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UF President Apologizes After Viral Video of Students Forced From Stage During Graduation Ceremony
Some of those outraged are saying the incident was racially motivated as the many of the students removed by an usher after they began to dance and celebrate were African-American.
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Hero, Harasser or Both? Shaun White's Newly Complex Legacy
It was expected to be a coronation: snowboarder Shaun White, shredding the halfpipe in an epic performance that won him Olympic gold at Pyeongchang four years after a devastating loss in Sochi and just four months after a nasty fall during practice sent him to a hospital. But as he basked in the comeback story of the Winter Games, allegations...