In this episode:

- Manatee County welcomes its 500th gopher tortoise to Duette Preserve.

- A turkey drive today in Bradenton puts Thanksgiving dinner on a neighbor's table.

- Tomorrow night's Sangarita Showdown doubles every dollar for local families.

- The SS United States slips beneath the Gulf to become the world's largest artificial reef.

- Florida permanently protects nearly 830 acres of working farmland.

- The Lightning light up Buffalo, eight to three, with a hat trick and a debut point.

- A sharper scan for returning prostate cancer earns an FDA breakthrough designation.

- A new DNA model reads our genes cell by cell.

- A longer window to detect a date-rape drug, a win for investigators and victims.

- New Zealand approves a medicine in 25 days instead of ten months.

- An osprey rescued on the Big Cypress Reservation flies home.