Sources: BBC
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration temporarily grounds all SpaceX Falcon 9 launches and orders an investigation following a booster rocket fire incident at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States. 2024-08-28
Protests are held in the United States including Florida, Michigan, and Colorado. 2023-10-29
The bridge connecting Pine Island in Lee County, Florida, reopens to the public after undergoing repairs from damage caused by Hurricane Ian. 2022-10-5
Florida reports 75,900 cases of COVID-19, a new single-day record. 2021-12-31
The first cruise ship in more than a half-century bound for Havana from the United States leaves Miami, Florida, at about 4:24 p.m. EDT. Carnival Cruise Line's 704-passenger Adonia was able to set sail for the northern Caribbean country after Cuba, April 22, loosened its policy banning Cuban-born people from traveling to the country by sea. 2016-05-1
Voters in the U.S. states of Florida, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, North Carolina and the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands head to the polls for Republican and Democratic Party primaries that the media has dubbed "Super Tuesday 2". 2016-03-15
Seven people have been injured following a series of explosions at a propane plant in the US town of Tavares in central Florida. 2013-07-29
James Seevakumaran, a 30-year-old student at the University of Central Florida, pulls the fire alarm and plans to attack the school. Instead, after brandishing a gun at another student, he commits suicide in his dorm in Orlando, Florida, United States. The entire campus is evacuated when improvised explosive devices are found in the room. 2013-03-18
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
Tropical Storm Debby nears the Gulf Coast of the Florida peninsula as flash floods cut off sections of Interstate 10 and Interstate 75 in the state. 2012-06-26