Sources: BBC
A bus driver shoots and kills two passengers on a Miami-Dade Transit bus in Miami Gardens, Florida, United States. 2025-03-30
Intuitive Machines' space probe IM-2 "Athena" lands on Mons Mouton near the lunar south pole after launching from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, U.S., on February 27. 2025-03-6
SpaceX launches NASA's "Europa Clipper" spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, United States, to study Jupiter's moon Europa, with the spacecraft expected to arrive in April 2030. 2024-10-14
The death toll from Hurricane Helene rises to at least 116 people, including 46 in North Carolina, 27 in South Carolina, 25 in Georgia, and 13 in Florida. 2024-09-29
The National Hurricane Center releases a report announcing that Hurricane Ian, which made landfall last year in most of southwest Florida, has been reanalyzed and recategorized as a Category 5 hurricane. 2023-04-3
Protesters and Cuban exiles gather in Tampa, Florida to call for freedom and democracy in Cuba. In South Florida, protesters gather at the Cuban restaurant Cafe Versailles in Miami to hold a “liberty” rally. 2021-07-12
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
Florida surpasses two million cases of COVID-19, becoming the third U.S. state to do so after California and Texas. 2021-03-20
Florida's Department of Health reports 5,570 additional COVID-19 cases, the highest number of reported cases in a single day since August. It comes a day after Florida did not report any new cases or deaths because officials were left combing through 400,000 test results a private lab resent Friday night. 2020-10-11
Florida Governor Rick Scott declares a state of emergency as Tropical Storm Colin's rain and gusty winds pelt the state's west coast. Maximum sustained winds at 1:00 p.m. EDT are 50 mph (85 kpm). Between three and five inches of rain are forecast for northern Florida, with some areas getting up to eight inches. 2016-06-6