Florida’s governor suspends executions
Gov. Jeb Bush suspended the death penalty in Florida on Friday after a medical examiner said executioners botched the insertion of needles in the arms of a convicted killer who...
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Key West workers struggle to find affordable housing
The sun isn't even a hint in the sky when the bus leaves south Miami-Dade County and rumbles 80 miles down the Overseas Highway jammed with one of the scarcest...
Old tug survives Katrina
There is one strange landmark on the Gulfport, Miss., coast that survived the ravages of Katrina. It's an old tug named the SS Hurricane Camille, salvaged in 1969 from the...
Storm forces order to flee Florida Keys
Hurricane Dennis pounded Cuba on Friday with 135 m.p.h. winds, killing at least 10 people, and then barreled northwest to taunt the Florida Keys and the rest of Florida. Tens...
Schiavo autopsy completed; separate funerals planned
A six-hour autopsy was performed Friday on the body of Terri Schiavo but the results may not be released for several weeks, the state medical examiner for Pinellas County said....
Schiavo’s feeding is stopped
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - Shortly before 2 p.m. yesterday, a chaplain, a doctor and other health care workers prayed in Terri Schiavo's room, gave her Holy Communion through her feeding...
Storms’ double punch has precedent
In one of the cruelest twists of this history-making hurricane season, Jeanne plowed ashore late Saturday almost exactly where Frances did three weeks earlier. But that's not a first for...
Not again! Jeanne aims at Florida
UPDATE FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: Hurricane Jeanne trekked westward today on a path that could lead to Florida's east coast by Sunday, setting off another round of storm preparations in...
Few storms compare to Frances
The satellite picture told the whole story: From the Florida Keys to Jacksonville, the behemoth called Frances smothered just about every one of Florida's 65,758 square miles. "To have a...
Florida braces for Frances
With dread and disbelief, Floridians prepared Wednesday to flee Hurricane Frances, just three weeks after Hurricane Charley caused billions of dollars in damage as it ripped across Florida. Nearly a...