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Florida State University students wait for news amid an active shooter incident at the school’s campus in Tallahassee, Fla., Thursday, April 17, 2025 (AP Photo/Kate Payne)

Florida State gunman is the son of a sheriff’s deputy, used her former service weapon

April 17, 2025 at 5:00 p.m.

The 20-year-old son of a sheriff’s deputy opened fire Thursday at Florida State University with his mother’s former service weapon, killing two people and wounding at least six others, investigators...

Una madre da las gracias a la notaria Adela Morales, a la derecha, y a Nora Sandigo, a la izquierda, tras firmar los documentos que otorgan a Sandigo la tutela legal de sus hijos, el domingo 19 de enero de 2025, en Miami. (AP Foto/Marta Lavandier)

Tras críticas de líderes legislativos, el gobernador de Florida promete vetar ley de inmigración

January 29, 2025 at 11:55 a.m.

El gobernador de Florida, Ron DeSantis, prometió el miércoles vetar un amplio proyecto de ley sobre inmigración, en la última escalada de un enfrentamiento en la legislatura estatal entre el...

FILE – Rep. Randy Fine, R-South Brevard County, closes on a gambling bill during a special session, Wednesday, May 19, 2021, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon, File)

What to know about Tuesday’s US House primaries to replace Matt Gaetz and Mike Waltz

January 28, 2025 at 8:21 a.m.

The races to fill the U.S. House seats of former Reps. Mike Waltz and Matt Gaetz begin Tuesday with primaries in reliably conservative districts that solidly back President Donald Trump.

People walk as snow falls in New Orleans, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Winter storm spreads across the Deep South, creating icy danger and snowy fun

January 22, 2025 at 5:23 p.m.

A major storm spread heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain across the southern United States on Wednesday, breaking snow records and treating the region to unaccustomed perils and wintertime joy.

FILE – Former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school class at Maranatha Baptist Church in his hometown, Aug. 23, 2015, in Plains, Ga. The 90-year-old Carter gave one lesson to about 300 people filling the small Baptist church that he and his wife, Rosalynn, attend. It was Carter’s first lesson since detailing the intravenous drug doses and radiation treatment planned to treat melanoma found in his brain after surgery to remove a tumor from his liver. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Jimmy Carter’s funeral begins by tracing 100 years from rural Georgia to the world stage

January 5, 2025 at 8:08 a.m.

Jimmy Carter‘s extended public farewell began Saturday in Georgia, with the 39th U.S. president’s flag-draped casket tracing his long arc from the Depression-era South and family farming business to the...

Flood waters recede after Hurricane Milton, on streets where piles of debris from Hurricane Helene flooding, sit outside many homes, in Siesta Key, Fla., Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Residents slog through flooded streets, pick up debris after Hurricane Milton tore through Florida

October 11, 2024 at 12:02 p.m.

Florida residents slogged through flooded streets, gathered up scattered debris and assessed damage to their homes on Friday after Hurricane Milton smashed through coastal communities and spawned a barrage of deadly...

A construction crane fell over into an office building that houses the Tampa Bay Times headquarters, after Hurricane Milton, Oct. 10, 2024. (Tampa Bay Times)

Hurricane Milton clobbers coastal communities in Florida, leaves millions without power

October 10, 2024 at 5:33 p.m.

Rescue teams plucked Florida residents from the flotsam of Hurricane Milton on Thursday after the storm smashed through coastal communities where it tore homes into pieces.

A car drives past a pile of debris from Hurricane Helene flooding, along a street that had already begun flooding from rain ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Milton, in Gulfport, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (Rebecca Blackwell/AP)

More than 1.5 million without power as Hurricane Milton slams Florida, causes deaths and flooding

October 9, 2024 at 10:37 p.m.

Hurricane Milton has crashed into Florida as a Category 3 storm, pounding the coast with ferocious winds of over 100 mph and producing a series of tornadoes around the state.

Laurie Lilliott stands amid the wreckage of her destroyed home in Dekle Beach in rural Taylor County, Fla., Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. (AP Photo/Kate Payne)

Florida communities hit three times by hurricanes grapple with how and whether to rebuild

October 3, 2024 at 7:30 a.m.

It was just a month ago that Brooke Hiers left the state-issued emergency trailer where her family had lived since Hurricane Idalia slammed into her Gulf Coast fishing village of...

This aerial drone view shows damaged homes and a vehicle collapsed into water after storm surge from Hurricane Helene, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024, in Madeira Beach, Fla. (Luis Santana/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Supplies arrive by plane and by mule in North Carolina as Helene’s death toll tops 125

September 30, 2024 at 4:25 p.m.

A crisis unfolded in Asheville as officials pledged to get more water, food and other supplies to flood-stricken areas without power and cellular service Monday, days after Hurricane Helene ripped...

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