WUFT News

Ophelie Jacobson anchors the 99th Annual UF Homecoming Parade with live commentary and
interviews with special guests including UF President Kent Fuchs.

A 69-year-old woman's trailer home was destroyed by strong wind and rain during Hurricane Ian. 
The category four storm left her neighborhood in North Fort Myers almost unrecognizable.

Voters are headed to the polls to cast their ballots in a special election for City Commission
At-Large, Seat B. Polls will remain open until 7 p.m.

Gainesville attorney Jeff Childers filed an emergency petition against Alachua County
Public Schools for its mask mandate. He said it goes against the state’s updated emergency rule.

The University of Florida made national headlines this week after it denied the request for three
professors to take side work as legal experts. The professors would have been hired to
testify against Florida’s new election law

The Florida Department of Health listed 120 businesses under investigation for requiring vaccines.
The list included the Alachua County Board of County Commissioners, the Alachua County
Public Library and Gainesville Mayor Lauren Poe. 

The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan at the end of August quickly divided both politicians and
the public, but at a parade last weekend in Newberry, people set politics aside to
celebrate the return of local veterans who had been serving in Afghanistan.

City and county officials voted yesterday to pursue an Urgent Care facility for the east side of
Gainesville. The partnership would be with UF Health on the first building for a 13-acre
development off Hawthorne Road.

Ophelie Jacobson is on the ground during the 2021 UF Homecoming Parade as a reporter talking
to attendees. See the package at 6:00 and reporter hit at 17:24.