Sources: BBC
A man in Hudson, Florida, United States fatally shoots a family of four with a 9 mm gun before burning their bodies in a fire pit. The perpetrator was identified as 25-year-old Rory John Graeme Atwood.2024-06-12
The death toll in the Champlain Towers South condominium building collapse in Surfside, Florida, increases to 78, with the overnight recovery of 14 more bodies. 2021-07-9
Florida becomes the first U.S. state to surpasses 1,000 cases of SARS-CoV-2 variants. 2021-03-21
U.S. President Donald Trump's speech at a rally in Orlando, Florida is billed as the official launch of his re-election campaign for the 2020 United States presidential election. He previously filed on January 20, 2017 paperwork with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) officially announcing his bid for the 2020 presidential election. 2019-06-18
Hurricane Michael is downgraded to a tropical storm, but tornadoes are spotted in Georgia and Florida. 2018-10-11
Approximately 5.6 million people in the U.S. states of Florida and South Carolina have been asked to evacuate. 2017-09-8
United States senators Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) file a bill restricting arms sales to the Philippine National Police over its drug war. 2017-05-5
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
London-based BP agrees, pending court approval, to pay $US18.7 billion to compensate the United States government and the five Gulf Coast states--Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas--for damages stemming from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The settlement includes a civil penalty of $US5.5 billion under the Clean Water Act. 2015-07-2
The Space Shuttle "Discovery" makes its final landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, after 27 years of service. 2011-03-9