Florida
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From Texas to Louisiana and Florida, a wide swath of southern United States braced for a once-in-a-generation winter storm with heavy snow, sleet and ice on Tuesday, which created hazardous travel conditions for the region unaccustomed to bitterly cold weather. Up to 235 million Americans were affected by the storm, which the U.S. National Weather…
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Tropical storm and hurricane warnings have been lifted on the west coast of Florida, according to the US’s National Hurricane Service. Hurricane Milton has lingered for longer with damaging winds in the east and centre of Florida, the service said. But an earlier tropical storm warning for all of the Florida Keys and from the…
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The arrival of Hurricane Milton will inevitably have prompted recollections for many of what was then the most destructive hurricane to ever hit Florida. In August 1992, Hurricane Andrew slammed into South Florida before making a second US landfall in Louisiana. It remains one of the top five most powerful hurricanes ever to strike the…
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We’re hearing that every major bridge in the Tampa Bay region is expected to close to vehicle traffic by Wednesday afternoon. The Florida Department of Transportation advises that the three major bridges, external which connect Tampa to St Petersburg and Clearwater areas will shut. The bridges close when waves lap onto the road, creating a deadly hazard. Another…
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Hurricane Milton’s arrival is coming at a vulnerable moment for many Americans. I recently returned from North Carolina, one of multiple states in turmoil after Hurricane Helene ripped through the US’s south-east less than two weeks ago. At least 225 people have so far been confirmed killed by the storm, which also hit South Carolina,…
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Summary ‘It’s a gamble we weren’t willing to make’: Floridians evacuating as storm nears If you decide to live in Florida, you inevitably are entered into the “hurricane lottery,” Gerald Lemus tells me from a hotel he’s fled to. Lemus has lived in the Gulf Coast city of Bradenton his whole life and has never…
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As of Tuesday afternoon, Manatee County Jail is not planning on evacuating approximately 1,200 inmates, even as state and local officials stress that Florida residents should heed evacuation warnings ahead of Hurricane Milton’s arrival. Hurricane Milton was classified as a Category 4 hurricane on Tuesday, with maximum sustained winds of 155 miles per hour, making…
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A shark bit three people off a southern Texas beach in what the city’s fire chief called an unprecedented incident on the Fourth of July, the same day another person was bitten by a shark in Florida, officials said. In Texas, three people were bitten in the city of South Padre Island, on a barrier…
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Florida was blocked from enforcing a ban on Chinese citizens owning homes or land in the state against two Chinese citizens by a U.S. appeals court. The two individuals were in the process of buying property when the law came into force. On Thursday, a panel of the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals…
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A 14-year-old boy allegedly fatally shot his older sister in Florida after a family argument over Christmas presents, officials said Tuesday. The teen had been out shopping on Christmas Eve with Abrielle Baldwin, his 23-year-old sister, as well as his mother, 15-year-old brother and sister’s children, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri The teenage brothers got into…
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The state of Florida this week told schools that federal policies protecting transgender students “should not be treated as governing law,” according to Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. The U.S. Department of Education proposed a Title IX rule to protect transgender students that would prohibit “all forms of sex discrimination, including discrimination based on sex…
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Former President Donald Trump took classified information to his Florida home after leaving the White House, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration said in a letter to Congress on Friday about the 15 boxes of documents it recently recovered. The Archives said it had informed the Department of Justice, which would handle any investigation.…
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The bodies of two young sisters pulled from the rubble of a Florida condo building — so tiny that the 4 and 11-year-olds were placed in the same casket — were buried alongside their parents Tuesday, their white coffin draped with innocent pink and purple ribbons. Lucia Guara, “Lulu bear,” loved watching “Jeopardy” with her…
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Florida reported a record increase of more than 15,000 new cases of COVID-19 in 24 hours on Sunday, a day after Walt Disney World in Orlando reopened and anti-mask activists held a rally at a nearby restaurant. If Florida were a country, it would rank fourth in the world for the most new cases in…
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A Port St. Lucie, Florida woman was arrested after police said she organized a fistfight between her 15-year-old daughter and a 16-year-old girl because the two were arguing over unwanted text messages being sent from the latter to the former. For her role as the Don King of Florida teenage girl fights, Heather Salerno, 52,…
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The gunman who killed three U.S. sailors at a military base in Florida last year repeatedly communicated with al-Qaida operatives about planning and tactics in the months leading up to the attack, U.S. officials said Monday, as they lashed out at Apple for failing to help them open the shooter’s phones so they could access…
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