Sources: BBC
NASA's PACE mission is launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States, to study Earth's ocean and atmosphere. 2024-02-8
Smoke from the ongoing Canadian wildfires is reported to have entered the U.S. states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Georgia, Vermont, South Carolina, Arkansas and even small parts of Florida and Mississippi. 2023-06-29
Florida surpasses 300 cases of the B.1.1.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2. 2021-02-10
The May 24 arrest of a 23-year-old man in Tampa, Florida, is announced by federal prosecutors. He had allegedly been planning a mass shooting at Honeymoon Island State Park in support of ISIS. 2020-05-27
The NRA is suing Florida after it passed a gun control law which would raise the minimum age for purchasing guns from 18 to 21. 2018-03-10
Police in Florida link a fourth unsolved murder to an unknown serial killer targeting the Seminole Heights area of Tampa, Florida. 2017-11-14
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket explodes during a routine firing test at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. SpaceX say there were no injuries, but that an "anomaly" during the static fire test resulted in the loss of the rocket and the Israeli Amos-6 communication satellite it was carrying. 2016-09-1
A mailman from Florida was arrested after he made an unauthorized landing of a small gyrocopter with postal service markings on the Capitol West Front Lawn. He had told a newspaper that a terrorist would not have informed the public that he planned a non-violent protest flight for campaign finance reform. 2015-04-15
Three people die after a twin-engine plane crashes into a parking lot in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. 2013-03-15
The TechCrunch web publication reports that the Anonymous computer hacking group has declared war on the U.S. city of Orlando, Florida, in supposed retaliation for the arrest of members of Food Not Bombs. 2011-06-28