New trackers help us understand and protect tarpon

With the tarpon population believed to be in decline, a non-profit group is employing new state-of-the-art trackers to better understand and protect Florida’s most-prized sport fish.

Report: Florida needs to improve services for babies

According to the advocacy group First 1,000 Days Florida, making sure a child's needs are met during the first three years of their life "significantly improves their health, increases their chances of success, avoids a host of expensive societal problems, and makes Florida stronger."

Florida's most famous cheerleader, 'Mr. Two Bits,' dies at 97

The University of Florida's most famous cheerleader has died. George Edmondson Jr., better known as Mr. Two Bits while riling up crowds at Florida home games for 60 years, died Tuesday at age 97, the school announced Thursday.