Trump considers arming teachers as students protest gun laws
Students galvanised by the deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school confronted lawmakers on Wednesday with demands to restrict sales of assault rifles, while...
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Grief, anger as Florida readies to bury victims school massacre
As families prepared on Friday to bury victims of another US mass shooting, grief mixed with anger amid signs of possible lapses in school security...
FBI was warned about alleged Florida gunman
The Federal Bureau of Investigation was warned last year about an ominous online comment by the 19-year-old man accused of killing 17 people in his...
Criminal probe opens into 8 deaths at Florida nursing home
Eight elderly patients died after being left inside a stifling South Florida nursing home that lost power during Hurricane Irma, officials said on Wednesday, prompting...
Returning Florida evacuees stunned by Irma’s wreckage
By Andy Sullivan Hurricane Irma evacuees began returning to the storm-ravaged Florida Keys on Tuesday to find homes ripped apart and businesses coated in seaweed...
Floridians return home as Irma moves to Georgia (Updated)
Shocked Florida residents returned to their shattered homes on Monday as the weakened Hurricane Irma pushed inland, flooding cities in the northeastern part of the...
Hurricane Irma rips through Cuba as it heads for Florida
Hurricane Irma pounded Cuba’s northern coast on Saturday as it headed for Florida, where millions of residents were told to evacuate after the storm killed...
Irma lashes Bahamas and Cuba on a path toward Florida (Updated)
Hurricane Irma menaced Cuba and the Bahamas on Friday as it drove toward Florida after lashing the Caribbean with devastatingly high winds, killing 19 people...
Hurricane Irma will ‘devastate’ part of United States
Anticipating that Hurricane Irma will “devastate” part of the United States, US officials were preparing a massive response to the storm, the head of the...
Florida prepares for powerful Hurricane Irma
Emergency management officials across South Florida hastened disaster preparations on Tuesday in anticipation of Hurricane Irma’s expected weekend arrival on the U.S. mainland with possibly...
Five people killed by fired warehouse worker (Update 2)
A man fired from his warehouse job in April returned to his old workplace near Orlando on Monday and fatally shot five people before killing...
Emirates to launch new daily service to Fort Lauderdale
Airline’s 11th US passenger route to South Florida will commence on December 15, 2016 Emirates announced it will launch a daily service between Dubai and...
Foreign ministry issues emergency numbers for Cypriots in US due to hurricane
The foreign ministry said on Sunday its embassy in the US was in constant contact with authorities there on the situation resulting from Hurricane Matthew...
Hurricane Matthew kills almost 900 in Haiti before hitting US
By Joseph Guyler Delva and Scott Malone Hurricane Matthew killed almost 900 people and left tens of thousands homeless in Haiti earlier this week...
Death toll from Hurricane Matthew surges in Haiti, storm hugs Florida coast (Update 4)
Hurricane Matthew, carrying winds of 120 miles per hour (195 kph), lashed central Florida on Friday, hugging the Atlantic coast as it moved north and...
Death toll rises; Hurricane Matthew blasts Bahamas en route for United States
Hurricane Matthew, the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade, blasted the Bahamas on Thursday as it headed for the southeastern United States after killing...
After rampage through South, Hermine threatens U.S. Northeast (Updated)
Storm Hermine churned off the U.S. Middle Atlantic Coast on Sunday, with forecasters projecting it may regain hurricane strength as it creeps north, spoiling the...
Hurricane Hermine hammers Fla., barrels north toward Atlantic Coast (Update 3)
By Letitia Stein Wind and rain from Hurricane Hermine toppled trees and power lines along Florida’s northern Gulf Coast, inundating coastal areas with storm surges...
US judge permanently blocks Florida law to end abortion funding
A federal judge on Thursday permanently blocked parts of a Florida law that aimed to cut off state funding for preventive health services at clinics...
Florida reports evidence of local Zika transmission
Four people in Miami likely contracted Zika locally through mosquito bites, Florida‘s governor said on Friday, the first evidence that the virus tied to a...