Florida hit a grim milestone Sunday, shattering the national record for a state's largest single-day increase in corona positive cases, the United States grappled with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the world.
In Florida, 15,299 people tested (...)
Hurricane Michael howled closer to Florida's Gulf shore on Tuesday as a major Category 3 storm, with half a million coastal residents strongly urged to seek higher ground on the eve of a landfall forecast to bring towering waves and roof-shredding (...)
Leonard "Roscoe" Newton has been in and out of Florida's prisons since before he could vote, starting with a youthful conviction for burglary.
He's been a free man for six years now with an important exception: he still can't vote.
Newton, who is (...)
Tropical Storm Colin was gaining speed and strength Monday on its way to strike Florida, threatening rains forecasters said could cause some serious flooding along much of the state's Gulf coast.
A large portion of Florida's western and Panhandle (...)
Florida State researchers have developed a cheaper, more efficient LED, or light-emitting diode, the technology that illuminates the modern, energy-efficient home and delivers the picture on most flat screen TVs, UPI reported.
The key to the light's (...)
The first legal bear hunting season in Florida opened a little before sunrise on October 24. Before the first hunters made it to approve hunt zones, however, a bear struck first by attacking a man at a hotel in Eastpoint, UPI reported.
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The gunman who shot three people at Florida State University's library early Thursday before being killed by police was a lawyer who graduated from the school, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
The official said the shooter was (...)
pointers when it mattered most in its upset of Duke last month, hitting 50 percent of its shots from beyond the arc.
But the 15th-ranked Seminoles misfired badly from long range and at the free throw line Thursday night in their second matchup (...)
Kenny Stills reached high to grab a 37-yard touchdown pass from Landry Jones midway through the fourth quarter for the tiebreaking score, and Oklahoma's defense made the lead stand as the top-ranked Sooners beat No. 5 Florida State 23-13 on Saturday (...)
U.S. President Barack Obama plans to loosen Cuban travel policy to allow students to go to Cuba, the administration announced Friday.
Also, more airports will be allowed to offer charter service. Right now, only three airports _ in Miami, Los (...)
A trendy pedicure with fish that nibble dead skin from the feet has been nipped in the bud. The Florida Board of Cosmetology has banned the procedure, even before it was known to be offered anywhere in the state. The board said salons had been (...)