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The National Weather Service issues a rare Flash Flood Emergency in southern Florida, United States, for life-threatening flooding conditions only expected once every 500 to 1,000 years.
2024-06-12

Florida reports 75,900 cases of COVID-19, a new single-day record.
2021-12-31

Hurricane Elsa downgrades to a Tropical Storm and heads towards the Dominican Republic and Haiti followed by Cuba, the Cayman Islands, Jamaica and the U.S. state of Florida. Heavy rains and high winds are expected.
2021-07-3

A state of emergency is declared in Florida amidst mass evacuations owing to the potential collapse of toxic phosphogypsum waste reservoirs at the Piney Point phosphate plant.
2021-04-3

The Florida Department of Health reports 3,779 cases, the state's lowest since June 23.
2020-08-16

A man is arrested for a series of 40 rapes in the Miami, Florida, United States area in the 1980s.
2020-01-20

Jamaican reggae artist Buju Banton (Mark Anthony Myrie) is released from a U.S. prison and deported back to Jamaica, after serving 7 years of a 10-year drug charge conviction.
2018-12-7

Reggae music is added to the UNESCO Representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
2018-11-29

Residents of the American state of Florida prepare for the impact of Hurricane Hermine which is expected to make landfall today. A state of emergency has been declared in 51 of the 67 counties in the state.
2016-09-2

A mailman from Florida was arrested after he made an unauthorized landing of a small gyrocopter with postal service markings on the Capitol West Front Lawn. He had told a newspaper that a terrorist would not have informed the public that he planned a non-violent protest flight for campaign finance reform.
2015-04-15