After four fumbles and six sacks in last week's 23-20 win against Arkansas, Florida is going to fine-tune its offense for Saturday's game at Mississippi State. ...more

October 20, 2009

Set a golf ball on top of a fence 50 yards away and Travis Rubio can blast a bullet through the center of it with a muzzleloader-style rifle. ...more

June 15, 2009

When it comes to earmarks, one man's pig stink is another man's bacon. No kidding. ...more

March 8, 2009

The pending closure of Smithfield Foods meat packing plant is having economic ripple effects across the Tampa Bay area, in ways large and small. ...more

March 4, 2009

For half of his young life, Jacob Burnette has been a 4-H Club member, following the lead of both older siblings. ...more

February 25, 2009

The past several months have brought a new emotion into every home in America: fear. Fear that this economic meltdown will expose the core truth of a consumer society; a truth foretold in the old Southern expression, "Pigs get fed; hogs get slaughtered." ...more

January 25, 2009

In the Great Depression, a family with no electricity, no running water, no money and no jobs had six girls. They helped raise chickens and hogs and grew vegetables. They built a smoke house to cure the hams. The family had fresh chickens, eggs, meat and vegetables. ...more

December 27, 2008

Touring Lake Placid Middle School's greenhouse with his daughter Thursday evening, Thomas South remembered his days in FFA. ...more

October 27, 2008

For the Lowry Park Zoo elephants, it was one pumpkin in their mouths and another waiting in their trunks. ...more

October 18, 2008

At the zoo's annual Animals' Pumpkin Toss today, red river hogs, striped hyenas, pygmy hippos and warthogs also received pumpkins and fruit treats. Crowds of onlookers cheered as zookeepers tossed the Halloween-themed treats to the animals. ...more

October 17, 2008