This story is part of our weekly Hidden Gems feature series as the USA TODAY Network-Florida takes readers around the state to highlight some of our most interesting attractions. FORT WHITE — Deep in ...

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Rockets launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral, Florida, have been seen as far as Myrtle Beach or Philadelphia. People in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Alabama may ...

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Southwest Florida offers a variety of events this weekend, including boat shows, festivals, and fairs. The 53rd annual Fort Myers Boat Show runs through Sunday, featuring hundreds of boats and ...

For the fifteenth time in 2025, an endangered Florida panther was killed by a vehicle strike. This time in DeSoto County, the second reported death in the area since the Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

50 contestants. 10 teams of two. 25 fresh stone crab claws. And one ticking clock. In the Florida Keys this weekend, a tasty tradition to kick off stone crab season proved there is indeed a method to ...

MARATHON, FLA. (WSVN) - Dozens of people took part in the annual stone crab eating contest at Keys Fisheries in Marathon this past weekend. Participants had to crack and eat 25 fresh stone crab claws ...

MARATHON, Fla. (WFLA) — Stone crab season kicked off in the Florida Keys over the weekend with the 14th annual Stone Crab Eating Contest at Key Fisheries. 50 contestants raced against the clock to ...

Stone crabs can be found in coastal and offshore waters from North Carolina to Belize, but 99% of the landings in the United States comes from Florida. Regulations around harvesting stone crab claws ...