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Florida residents, and tourists alike, are at higher risk of contracting waterborne illnesses from the ocean when temperatures rise during the summer. Precautions can be taken to avoid infection.

Progressive candidates beat more centrist Democrats in key races Tuesday night in the types of competitive districts the party needs to win to take back the House this fall.

Mike Pesca's new book imagines 31 counterfactual "what ifs" in sports, from home runs taken off the board to a boycott of the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany.

Author Michael Pollan, who experimented with mushrooms, LSD and other psychedelics while researching his latest book, says: "I had an experience that was by turns frightening and ecstatic and weird."

There were more than 300 new cases of Hepatitis C last year in Florida in 2016. More than a third of these were young people.

Orlando has joined other cities signing a lawsuit that is suing the state over the right to set local gun regulations. Dr. Robert Spitzer of the political science department at State University of New York College at Cortland joins Intersection to discuss the lawsuit and how it can affect other states.

Orlando Fringe starts today. Former circus ringmaster Johnathan Lee Iverson talks about finding a home for his artistry as an opera singer at the Fringe, and director Eric Pinder talks about finding new audiences for opera with The Companion and Safe Word.

Affordable housing is in great demand in Central Florida. Shannon Nazworth of Ability Housing tells Intersection how Orlando can make a difference -one project at a time- in the affordable housing crisis. And Hank Fishkind talks about ways to boost the supply of housing.

Florida’s Department of Corrections is grappling with a $28 million budget gap. 90.7’s economic analyst Hank Fishkind took a look at the cut with an economist’s eye and goes over the numbers, and policies behind them, with news director Catherine Welch.

Dave Itzkoff examines Williams' life and death in a new biography. Williams took his own life in 2014; an autopsy later revealed he had Lewy body dementia.