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Buddy the Biso-cow is adjusting to his new home in Gainesville, Florida/

Buddy the biso-cow is adjusting well to his new home in Gainesville, Florida. The so-called biso-cow, formally known as Buddy the Beefalo, has been taking some time over the past week to settle in. Critter Creek Farm Sanctuary took to social media to name Buddy a “biso-cow,” which they say is a mix of a cow and a bison, not…

Plymouth Police Captain Benecchi flew all the way to Gainesville, Florida to reunite with Buddy the Beefalo after his recent move to Critter Creek Farm Sanctuary.

Connecticut’s famous Buddy the Beefalo is already the talk of the town after stirring up trouble at his new home in Gainesville, Florida. Critter Creek Farm Sanctuary said Buddy finally arrived Thursday morning and was a little hesitant when he first got out of the trailer. The sanctuary said he was so hesitant that within about two minutes, he...

Three of four children have been released from the hospital a week after authorities say their 36-year-old mother tried to kill them by crashing into a palm tree in north Florida. The Ocala Star-Banner reports Calicia L. Williams and her 13-year-old daughter remain at UF Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville. Ocala police said Williams will be taken to jail once...

Division III athletics tend to draw a lot of talent from the region they’re in. On the Trinity College football team there’s dozens of players from Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York, but this year there’s also one player on the roster joining the Bantams a long way from home.

Desperation mounted in the Bahamas on Tuesday as hurricane survivors arriving in the capital by boat and plane were turned away from overflowing shelters. As government officials gave assurances at a news conference that more shelters would be opened as needed, Julie Green and her family gathered outside the headquarters of the island’s emergency management agency, seeking help. “We need...

Hurricane Dorian is strengthening and is forecast to hit Florida as a Category 4 storm, threatening to derail travel during the busy Labor Day weekend. Dorian is projected to make landfall in Florida with winds reaching 130 miles per hour, according to the National Hurricane Center. The air traffic control tower at Miami International Airport will close if sustained wind...

Florida’s iconic palm trees are under attack from a fatal disease that turns them to dried crisps in months, with no chance for recovery once they become ill.

Ryan Lochte and his wife Kayla Rae Reid welcomed their second child, a baby girl, on Monday, June 17. The overjoyed parents announced the news on Instagram. In the picture, the Olympic gold-medalist cradles their newborn as their eldest child Caiden Zane Lochte meets his little sister. “Miracle #2 witnessed. Liv Rae Lochte was born today at 10:20am. 7lbs 8oz....

A large, flightless bird native to Australia and New Guinea attacked and killed its owner when the man fell on his property in Florida, authorities said Saturday.

A man accused of peeping into a teen girl’s bedroom in South Florida apparently picked the wrong home after he was caught and beaten up by the girl’s father, a former NFL player.

Five children heading to Disney World in a church van from Louisiana died along with two truck drivers in fiery crash on Interstate 75 in north Florida, the Florida Highway Patrol said Friday.

Georgia Republicans have chosen Brian Kemp to face Democrat Stacey Abrams for governor in a November matchup that will test history and highlight the widening gulf between the two major parties in style and substance in the era of President Donald Trump. Kemp, a two-term secretary of state, trounced longtime Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle in a runoff Tuesday after campaigning...

Investigators in Florida say they may never know why a man – a recluse from a rural farm community who rarely ventured into town – killed two sheriff’s deputies while they sat in a Chinese restaurant.

Tom Petty’s family says his death last year was due to an accidental drug overdose. His wife and daughter released the results of Petty’s autopsy via a statement Friday on his Facebook page. Dana and Adria Petty say they got the results from the coroner’s office earlier in the day that the overdose was due to a variety of...

Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte has wed the mother of his 7-month-old son. Lochte and former Playboy model Kayla Rae Reid were married by a judge Tuesday in Gainesville, Florida, where Lochte attended college. Their son, Caiden, was born last June.

A missing Florida teen who was found more than 1,000 miles away in New York with a 27-year-old soccer coach confided in a friend that she was scared of leaving the state with Rian Rodriguez but “didn’t know how to get out of it,” according to an arrest affidavit obtained by NBC affiliate WSTM reported. Caitlyn Frisina, 17, told the...

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Gainesville, Florida, ahead of a planned speech from white nationalist Richard Spencer Thursday.

Crowds of demonstrators gathered at the University of Florida campus in Gainesville Thursday, holding signs and chanting anti-Nazi slogans in protest of a speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer. Hundreds of police officers stood outside the UF Phillips Center for the Performing Arts to prevent violence. Anti-Spencer protesters shouted, “Not in our town! Not in our state! We don’t want...