Tag: Florida
Hurricane Dorian swirls toward anxious Florida, packing 140-mph winds
MIAMI: Hurricane Dorian spun across the Atlantic ocean toward Florida on Friday, becoming an even stronger Category 4 storm as residents and tourists alike...
Trump to launch re-election campaign in Florida
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Tuesday formally launches what may be an uphill battle to persuade voters to give him four more years in office,...
‘Miracle’: Plane crashes into Florida river, but no deaths
A charter plane travelling from Cuba to north Florida with 143 people on board ended up in a river at the end of a...
Conor McGregor arrested in Florida for breaking fan’s phone
FLORIDA: Conor McGregor was arrested in Miami Beach on Monday after a fan said the Irish mixed martial arts fighter smashed his phone and...
Florida orders recount in Senate, governor races
TALLAHASSEE: Florida authorities on Saturday ordered a statewide recount in the contentious races for US Senate and governor, amid tit-for-tat accusations of fraud from...
Suspect behind wave of parcel bombs arrested in Florida
MIAMI: Federal authorities arrested a person on Friday in connection with at least a dozen parcel bombs sent this week to Democratic politicians and high-profile...
Michael weakens to tropical storm after day of havoc in Florida
Michael weakened to a tropical storm early Thursday but only after wreaking a day of havoc along Florida´s Gulf Coast as it flooded homes...
Hurricane Michael menaces Florida after fatal flooding in Central America
WASHINGTON: Florida’s governor mobilised National Guard troops and thousands of Gulf Coast residents were ordered evacuated on Monday, two days before Hurricane Michael was...
Gunman kills two at video game tournament in Florida
JACKSONVILLE: A video gamer killed two people and wounded several others on Sunday when he opened fire with a handgun at a tournament that...
Florida police shoot gunman at Trump-owned golf resort
WASHINGTON: Florida police shot and wounded a gunman who had opened fire in the lobby of a Trump Organization-owned golf resort near Miami and...
Florida Senate passes bill to restrict rifle sales, arm some teachers
MIAMI: The US state of Florida, scene of America’s latest school shooting, on Wednesday passed a bill that raises the minimum age to buy firearms...
Trump visits mass school shooting survivors in Florida
FLORIDA: United States (US) President Donald Trump on Friday visited a Florida hospital to offer comfort to those that were wounded in a mass...
FBI admits failure to act on Florida school gunman, drawing anger
PARKLAND: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Friday it had failed to act on a tip warning that the man now accused of...
Grief and anger as Florida prepares to bury victims of school...
As families prepared on Friday to bury victims of another US mass shooting, grief mixed with anger amid signs of possible lapses in school...
US accepts grim reality of school shooting in every 60 hours
FLORIDA: The deadly gun rampage at a Florida high school on Wednesday took to 18 the number of school shootings across the United States...
At least 17 dead in US school shooting
PARKLAND: At least 17 people were killed on Wednesday in a shooting rampage at a Florida high school apparently carried out by a former student,...
Federal judge rules Florida’s ban on felons voting as unconstitutional
TALLAHASSEE: Florida’s policy of banning felons from voting until they petition the government is unconstitutional and forces them to “kowtow” to the whim of...
