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Closing out January, sheepshead numbers, especially large ones, weren’t caught widespread as in previous years. Let’s hope ...

Decades after being hailed as one of the greatest medical advances of the century, fluoride in water questioned in Oviedo.

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A man from the metro Atlanta area was recently sentenced to close to 500 years in prison for dog fighting and animal cruelty. Here are the details.

A 1.4 million-year-old fossil jaw belongs to a previously unknown human relative from southern Africa, a new study finds.

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