Seven marines and four soldiers were missing early Wednesday after an Army helicopter crashed during a night training exercise at Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida Panhandle, AP reported.
Base officials said the Marines are part of a Camp (...)
A county spokeswoman said a gas explosion at a jail in Pensacola, Florida, has injured 100 to 150 inmates and corrections officers, AP reported.
Kathleen Castro says the explosion happened around 11 p.m. Wednesday in Escambia County jail's booking (...)
Some inventors came with cotton fiber rolls, others with oil-clumping polymer mixes and one brought a specially designed rake. Their task: clean layers of crude oil and tar from a once-pristine Florida beach and prove they have the right stuff to (...)
Police in Florida say a burglar who made off with a man's valuables returned to the home later while investigators were there and snatched what he couldn't carry on his first trip: a 100-pound (45-kilogram) plasma-screen TV.
The burglar had left (...)
Rapper Tone Loc, who performed the 1980s hits “Wild Thing” and “Funky Cold Medina,” was released from the hospital Friday after collapsing during an outdoor concert in Florida, officials said.
A spokesman for the Escambia County Sheriff's (...)
Two inexperienced F-15C Eagle
pilots made errors that caused a fatal mid-air collision
during a combat training mission over the Gulf of Mexico,
Air Force investigators concluded in a report released
Monday, AP reported.
Both pilots misjudged (...)
For Thom Dietmeyer, a retired naval officer, standing again on the bridge of his old ship was a dream come true, even if he was 70 feet below the surface of the ocean.
“I knew exactly where I was going as soon as I got down there,” he said, (...)
A US federal judge blocked on Tuesday a bid by banned Olympic 100 meters champion Justin Gatlin to compete in this week's American trials for the Beijing Games.
Judge Lacey Collier lifted a 10-day restraining order that would have allowed the (...)
Hurricane Dennis thundered toward the U.S. Gulf Coast on Sunday with ferocious winds and waves that threatened potentially massive destruction in an area still bearing the scars of the last storm season.
After killing 32 people in Cuba and Haiti in (...)
President George W. Bush
scheduled a visit Sunday to hurricane-stricken Florida and
Alabama _ the third such visit for Florida _ as Hurricane
Ivan victims faced another day of digging through the
debris for their belongings and waiting hours in (...)
U.S. President George W. Bush was scheduled Sunday to visit the areas in west Florida and coastal Alabama
worst hit by Hurricane Ivan.
The storm death toll stood at 42 people, many of whom killed by tornadoes spun off by the hurricane, as a (...)