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  1. FDA change ushers in cheaper, easier-to-get hearing aids
    1 hour ago• Health
    Sterling Sheffield, an assistant professor of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at the University of Florida, holds an over-the-counter hearing aid Nov. 30 in Gainesville. OTC hearing aids started hitting the market in October after the FDA approved them for adults with mild-to-moderate hearing loss, and Sheffield has been testing them.
  2. Gainesville Christmas tree farm closing after this holiday season
    4 hours ago• Florida
    Cathryn and John Gregory in the main Christmas tree field where they have been selling fresh-cut trees for 35 years, at the Unicorn Hill Christmas Tree Farm in Gainesville. The Gregorys sold 135 trees this year, but had to destroy hundreds more trees because of a bad case of needle cast which causes browning of the trees. [BRAD MCCLENNY | The Gainesville Sun]
  3. Baby deliveries soar at Tampa General Hospital
    5 hours ago• Health
    Shayne Marx and her husband Bryan Marx snuggle with their day-old baby, Peyton, in their hospital room at Tampa General Hospital on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022.
  5. Antisemitic celebrities stoke fears of normalizing hate
    Yesterday• Nation & World
    A surge of anti-Jewish vitriol, spread by a world-famous rapper — Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, shown in this photo — an NBA star and other prominent people, is stoking fears that public figures are normalizing hate and ramping up the risk of violence in a country already experiencing a sharp increase in antisemitism.
  6. Questions emerge about Confederate monuments after banner flown over Jaguars game
    Yesterday• Florida
    A plane pulling a banner reading "Put Monuments Back" and flying a Confederate flag circles TIAA Bank Field before an NFL football game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Jacksonville Jaguars on Nov. 27 in Jacksonville.
  7. What happens to people who die at sea trying to migrate? It falls to the Florida Keys.
    Yesterday• Florida
    A U.S. Coast Guard boat approaches a sailing vessel packed with migrants off the coast of Key Largo, Florida, that law enforcement sources say are from Haiti last month.
  8. Buchanan in hunt for coveted committee chairmanship in the U.S. House
    Dec. 2• Politics
    U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla. is in the running for chairmanship of the powerful U.S. Ways and Means Committee. [CHRIS O'MEARA | Associated Press]
  9. Accused of 2 Tampa murders, Steven Lorenzo says he wants death sentence
    Dec. 2• Tampa
    Steven Lorenzo sits in court in 2017. Lorenzo has been awaiting a murder trial for five years on charges that he murdered Jason Galehouse and Michael Wachholz in 2003 in his Seminole Heights home.
  10. Trump probe: Court halts Mar-a-Lago special master review
    Dec. 1• Nation & World
    Former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club is seen in the aerial view in Palm Beach on Aug. 31, 2022. A federal appeals court has halted an independent review of documents seized from the estate, removing a hurdle the Justice Department said had delayed its criminal investigation into the retention of top secret government information.
  11. Tampa Council pushes off decision on what to do with wastewater
    Dec. 1• Tampa
    Tampa City Council member Bill Carlson has been a leading critic of proposals to treat wastewater and diverting it to places where it could mix with the drinking water supply.
  12. Matt Gaetz friend sentenced to 11 years in prison on sex crimes, other counts
    Dec. 1• Politics
    Former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg.
  13. 3 teens arrested for racist, antisemitic graffiti in Florida
    Dec. 1• Florida
    Three teenagers accused of spraying-painting racist and antisemitic messages multiple times over several weeks in South Florida have been arrested on felony charges.
  14. More deaths among vaccinated Americans not a reason to avoid vaccines, experts say
    Dec. 1• Politics
    A syringe with the COVID vaccine.
  15. Incoming UF president Ben Sasse abstained from Senate vote on marriage act
    Nov. 30• Education
    U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Nebraska, listens to a question during a University of Florida board of trustees meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022. The board later chose him to become UF's 13th president, starting in February.
  16. Florida man crashes into fireworks store, sparking huge fire
    Nov. 30• Florida
    A store manager surveys the damage to Phantom Fireworks in West Melbourne on Tuesday, after it was destroyed by fire on Monday. Authorities say a Florida man drove his SUV into the fireworks store, sparking a massive fire in a crash that also killed the driver.
  17. Soccer player who flipped bird in game against USF and lost scholarship wins appeal
    Nov. 30• Nation & World
    A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit brought by a former University of Connecticut women’s soccer player who lost her scholarship after she gave the middle finger to a television camera as the Huskies celebrated winning a conference championship.
  18. 4 highlights from Day 1 in Warren v. DeSantis trial in Tallahassee
    Nov. 30• Florida
    Suspended Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren, left, looks on as attorney Jean-Jacques Cabou, center, and attorney David Singer are seen during an August news conference in Tampa. Warren has filed a federal suit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis who suspended him.
  19. A look back at the 2022 hurricane season, from a historic lull to Hurricane Ian
    Nov. 30• Hurricane
    This is an aerial drone photo of erosion and damage in Daytona Beach taken 48 hours after Hurricane Nicole made landfall near Vero Beach as a Category 1 storm.
  20. Florida attorney general sues real estate brokerage for scamming homeowners
    Nov. 30• Florida
    The Florida Attorney General’s Office is suing a Delray Beach-based real estate brokerage for allegedly using deceptive business practices to prey on vulnerable homeowners.
  21. The other Ron DeSantis: What’s it like to share a name with Florida’s governor?
    Nov. 30• Politics
    Ron DeSantis, who shares a name with the governor, poses for a portrait at his home on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022, in Dunedin.
  22. ‘You’ve been suspended.’ Ousted Tampa prosecutor testifies in DeSantis trial
    Nov. 29• Politics
    Suspended Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren speaks to reporters before a federal court hearing on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, in Tallahassee.
  23. Body found of Florida boy, 9, who fell off pontoon boat
    Nov. 29• Florida
    A dive team has been searching a Polk County lake since Saturday after a boy, 9, fell off a pontoon boat and was struck by a propeller.
  24. Argentinian musician lands dream role in ‘Hadestown’ at the Straz
    Nov. 29• Music News
    Belén Moyano plays the violin in "Hadestown," a musical that has won eight Tony Awards.
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