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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

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

Florida's House of Representatives votes 67–50 to approve a gun and school safety bill that would raise the age to buy firearms from 18 to 21, sending the bill to Governor Rick Scott to sign into law. The measure also prohibits bump stocks, and creates a program for the arming of some teachers.
2018-03-7

The United Launch Alliance successfully launches NASA's OSIRIS-REx from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41 in Florida. The mission is to study asteroid 101955 Bennu and in 2023 to return a sample to Earth for detailed analysis. If successful, OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. spacecraft to return samples from an asteroid.
2016-09-8

The first infection outside Miami in Florida is discovered in Pinellas County.
2016-08-23

A truck going from Florida to Maine carrying about 1.5 to 2 million bees crashes.
2014-05-20

Several states in the Southeastern United States prepare for several inches of snow and ice.
2014-01-28

Ireland's justice minister Alan Shatter is involved in an eviction row with a tenant of one of his Florida properties, part of his vast U.S. property portfolio.
2012-09-17

The United States National Hurricane Center issues hurricane warnings for the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. A state of emergency is in effect in these four areas.
2012-08-26

Jamaican reggae singer Buju Banton is found guilty on drugs charges in the U.S. state of Florida.
2011-02-22