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An investigation is opened into U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R–FL) over whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl and violated federal sex trafficking laws by allegedly paying her to travel with him. Gaetz denied the allegations.
2021-03-30

New York surpasses one million cases of COVID-19, becoming the fourth state to do so after Texas, California and Florida.
2021-01-2

The National Transportation Safety Board opens an investigation into an automobile accident in Florida, involving a Tesla Model S where two teenagers died. According to a statement by Tesla, the car's Autopilot feature was not engaged at the time.
2018-05-10

Four people, all British nationals, are killed in a head-on collision with a pick-up truck in the U.S. state of Florida, according to Titusville Police Department.
2018-04-3

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

Four Florida residents may have been infected by the virus locally.
2016-07-27

More than 200 black bears are killed in a single day in the U.S. state of Florida after state officials allow the hunting of the animals for the first time in 21 years; supporters say the aim is to cut down on the animals' surging population, but animal rights activists have criticized the hunts as cruel and ineffective.
2015-10-25

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

A small Pilatus PC-12-47 aircraft crashes in a remote rural area of Florida in the Tiger Creek Swamp area near Lake Wales, Florida, southeast of Lakeland, Florida in the central portion of the state. The airplane began to break up at around 26,000 feet in southeastern Polk County, Florida.
2012-06-7

Eight states will gain seats in reapportionment for the 113th United States Congress, with Texas receiving four new seats and Florida receiving two. California fails to gain seats for the first time since 1920. Ten states will lose seats, with New York and Ohio each losing two.
2010-12-21