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Hurricane Helene makes landfall in Florida, United States, as a Category 4 hurricane, with sustained winds of 140 mph and a minimum central pressure of 938 millibars.
2024-09-26

Smoke from the wildfires continues to blanket southern Ontario and the eastern and mid-western United States, including New York, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky.
2023-06-27

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

Florida reports their first case of the Brazil variant of SARS-CoV-2, making it the fourth state to do so after Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Maryland.
2021-02-19

Two FBI agents are killed and three others are wounded during a shootout in Sunrise, Florida, while serving an arrest warrant. The gunman is later found dead. This is the deadliest incident involving FBI agents since 1986.
2021-02-2

Florida surpasses one million cases, becoming the third state to do so after California and Texas.
2020-12-1

The storm causes power outages to 550,000 customers in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, and 375,000 people in 22 counties have been ordered to evacuate.
2018-10-10

The presidential campaigns of Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Governor of Ohio John Kasich announce they will now coordinate strategies to stop fellow Republican Donald Trump from becoming the party's nominee. Cruz's campaign will cut campaigning in Oregon and New Mexico to help Kasich, while the Kasich campaign will give Cruz a "clear path" in Indiana.
2016-04-25

The governors of the U.S. states of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin say they will not accept Syrian refugees in response to the Islamic terror attacks in Paris. Twenty-three of the 24 governors are Republican with the other being Democrat (New Hampshire).
2015-11-16

Governor Rick Scott of Florida signs the death warrant for Oba Chandler, convicted of the murder of three women in 1989, with the execution set for November 15. [http:--www.orlandosentinel.com-news-local-breakingnews-os-chandler-execution-1011-20111010,0,4002142.story ("Orlando Sentinel")]date=August 2019
2011-10-10