
Julie Gargotta
Reporter and Anchor at Spectrum News 13
AP award-winning Journalist @mynews13. Wife, 🐶🐶👧🏼👶🏼mom. #Food & #travel enthusiast. @TempleUniv Owl. Story ideas? [email protected]
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1 week ago |
baynews9.com | Julie Gargotta
POLK COUNTY, Fla. — The only thing greater than a child’s joy in discovery is a parent’s pleasure in witnessing it. And in a house where oranges serve as toys and orange juice reigns supreme, one Florida farmer is seeing her family’s work in the citrus industry through new eyes — those of her toddler son, Lee. “I think how lucky I am to get to be a part of this and grow oranges that bring people together, working hard to keep Florida what it is and what it’s known for,” said Morgan McKenna Porter.
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3 weeks ago |
mynews13.com | Julie Gargotta
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — When doctors diagnosed Daytona Beach native Roger Thomas with colon cancer 10 years ago, he underwent life-saving surgery at 75 years old. “I had no symptoms, no idea I had cancer. They found it in a colonoscopy," he said.
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1 month ago |
mynews13.com | Julie Gargotta
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — What Barbara Moore pushed for in the 1970s was novel: She wanted to tackle domestic violence head-on and providing resources to save lives.
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1 month ago |
mynews13.com | Saundra Weathers |Melissa Eichman |Jeff Allen |Jeff Butera |Fallon Silcox |Asher Wildman | +2 more
Floridians will not soon forget October 2024, when two powerful hurricanes cut through the state in just two weeks. Then, Hurricane Milton caused widespread damage over the Bay area, Central Florida and beyond. Both storms claimed lives, obliterated buildings, flooded neighborhoods and left millions powerless. But, as we’ve seen in the wake of every storm to hit Florida before them, neighbors and strangers united to persevere.
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1 month ago |
mynews13.com | Julie Gargotta
ORLANDO, Fla. — Hours before the Hurricane Milton made landfall on the west coast of Florida, something was brewing to the east: a historic outbreak of tornadoes, the most in a single day in the state of Florida.
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