Attention, fruit ninjas: We’re in the thick of watermelon season, and hundreds of sweet green gourds will be dipped in chocolate, turned into popsicles and devoured by the dozens in Boca Raton this ...

The boots of Cal Hucks kick up dust as he walks through the powdery soil on a patch of farmland five football fields long awaiting nearly 300,000 watermelon seedlings to be planted in the coming hours ...

OCALA, Fla. — A man with a long record of dangerous driving pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to driving under the influence-manslaughter in the deaths of eight Mexican farmworkers whose bus was ...

Florida produces more watermelon than any other state, accounting for 34% of the nation's supply. Indian River County, once a citrus hub, now sees numerous repurposed school buses transporting ...

OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Mexico’s consulate in central Florida was working Wednesday to support a community of farmworkers after a highway collision killed eight Mexican citizens and injured 40 other people ...

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. — A Florida woman made an odd yet refreshing find in one of the trees in her backyard — a watermelon. Mariko Thayer has a green thumb, growing lemons, tangerines and pineapples ...

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OCALA, Fla. -- The Florida Highway Patrol has arrested the driver of a pickup that crashed into a farmworker bus early Tuesday, killing eight, on charges of driving under the influence-manslaughter.

OCALA, Fla. (AP) — A man with a long record of dangerous driving told investigators he smoked marijuana oil and took prescription drugs hours before he sideswiped a bus, killing eight Mexican ...