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A young bar-tailed godwit appears to have set a non-stop distance record for migratory birds by flying at least 8,435 miles from Alaska to the Australian state of Tasmania, a bird expert said Friday.

Hurricane Roslyn slammed into a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico's Pacific coast then declined to tropical storm force and quickly moved inland.

A Jacksonville City Council bill would rename a Mandarin park after the late Tommy Hazouri, and a new Mayport community center could bear the name of Bill Gulliford.

We remember famed big wave surfer Márcio Freire who died surfing in the Portuguese town of Nazaré last week.

When Kate Baker's toddler experienced a seizure during a transatlantic flight, she nearly shut down. But she received comfort from an unexpected group of passengers.

The Arctic ice that thousands of walruses usually live on has disappeared from Alaska's Chukchi Sea. The government is trying to figure out how the animals are coping with the dramatic change and whether to add them to its endangered species list.

JTA expects record crowds for the Jacksonville Jaguars' AFC wild-card round matchup against the Los Angeles Chargers.

A killer whale more than 20 feet long died after beaching itself in Palm Coast, Fla. This is the third known orca to be stranded in the southeastern U.S. and the first since 1956, an official says.

Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott are opposing a NOAA proposal that would reduce speed limits off the Southeast coast to protect the vanishing whales.

After we published our list of terms likely to loom large in this year's vocabulary, readers submitted their own nominations. Here's a sampling.