
Orlando, Florida: More than 100 sheriff's deputies in riot gear had to be called in to break up an out-of-control crowd waiting outside a mall to buy a limited edition Nike basketball shoe. Authorities say there were no injuries or arrests outside the Florida Mall late on Thursday. The crowds began getting unruly as hundreds packed the parking lot, waiting to buy the $220, limited-edition shoe that was timed to...

07:34 AM, Feb 25, 2012

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida: Former world number one Tiger Woods will play in next month's $1.02 million Honda Classic for the first time as a professional. "I've heard great things about the Honda Classic and now that I live here in Florida, I want to play whenever possible," the 14-times Major champion said on his website on Tuesday. "Jack Nicklaus's involvement in the tournament and the benefits to the local...

02:09 PM, Feb 16, 2012

Washington: Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has won the Republican primary in Florida, defeating Newt Gingrich. The victory has brought him closer to bagging the Republican nomination to challenge the incumbent, Barack Obama, in November presidential elections. Gingrich, who created a major upset in the previous South Carolina, was polled over 4.25 lakh votes against Romney's 6.3 lakh votes with more than two-thirds of the votes counted. As a result,...

07:21 AM, Feb 01, 2012

Cocoa Beach, Florida: Florida's Republican voters go to the polls on Tuesday in a high-stakes presidential primary election that could determine the direction of the race. In what shapes up as a two-man contest, most opinion polls show Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, holding a double-digit lead over Newt Gingrich, a former US House speaker. Florida is the largest state to hold a presidential primary so far this year...

03:08 PM, Jan 31, 2012

Miami: Mitt Romney strode into the final 48 hours of the pivotal Florida Republican primary campaign with the confidence of a resurgent front-runner, predicting he'll win in Tuesday's voting while looking ahead to future contests. His main rival Newt Gingrich hustled around the state, trying to rekindle the energy that lifted him to victory in the South Carolina primary on Jan 21. He acknowledged the possibility he could lose here...

11:32 PM, Jan 29, 2012

New York: At 91, Bernice Bates may not look like a typical yoga instructor but the Florida based great-grandmother has been named the world's oldest yoga teacher by the Guinness Book of World Records. Bates has been practising yoga for the last 50 years and credits the ancient Indian exercise form for her years of good health. She was nominated for the Guinness record earlier this year by her daughter....

07:28 PM, Dec 23, 2011

Washington: That playing video games makes the brain smarter and improves concentration might be a myth fostered by a host of studies. "Despite the hype, in reality, there is little solid evidence that games enhance cognition at all," said Walter Boot, assistant professor in psychology at Florida State University who led the study. Many of those studies compared the cognitive skills of frequent gamers to non-gamers and found gamers to...

03:05 PM, Sep 17, 2011

Orlando: A Florida jury on Tuesday found Casey Anthony not guilty of murder in the June 16, 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. Jurors deliberated nearly 11 hours over two days, taking nearly six hours on Monday with no break for the US Independence Day holiday, before reaching the verdict. The defense had argued that Caylee died in an accidental drowning. Prosecutors had been expected to seek the death...

01:02 AM, Jul 06, 2011

Miami: Authorities say rapper Sean Kingston is hospitalized after crashing a personal watercraft into a Miami Beach bridge. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Jorge Pino says Kingston and a female passenger were injured when the watercraft hit the Palm Island Bridge around 6 pm Sunday. Pino says both were hospitalized early Monday at Ryder Trauma Center, but he didn't know their conditions. Pino says authorities are investigating the...

04:03 PM, May 30, 2011

Mingora: Pakistani authorities interrogated a teenager on Monday wanted in the United States on charges of financing and supporting the al Qaeda-linked Pakistani Taliban, local intelligence officials said. Alam Zeb, 19, was charged in Florida along with his mother and a family friend. He is the grandson of the imam of a Florida mosque who was arrested in the United States along with his two sons on Saturday on the...

09:01 AM, May 17, 2011

Miami: The imam of a Florida mosque and his two sons, one also a Muslim spiritual leader, were arrested on Saturday on charges of financing and supporting the Pakistani Taliban, US officials said. The three Pakistan-born US citizens were among six charged in a US indictment that accused them of "supporting acts of murder, kidnapping and maiming in Pakistan and elsewhere" carried out by the Pakistani Taliban, which Washington calls...

08:36 AM, May 15, 2011

Palmetto: A Tampa-area woman found an unwelcome weekend guest in her bathroom - a 7-foot alligator. Alexis Dunbar says she screamed and the alligator hissed when she found it inside the bathroom of her home Saturday afternoon. Her boyfriend propped a small table by the bathroom to keep the gator inside until an officer from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission showed up to take him away. Dunbar believes...

01:28 PM, Apr 27, 2011

Tallahassee: Rock and roll icon Jim Morrison was pardoned on Thursday by the Florida clemency board for exposing himself at a raucous concert in 1969, an act the late singer and many concert-goers denied ever took place. Outgoing Governor Charlie Crist and the clemency board voted unanimously to pardon The Doors' lead singer, who would have turned 67 on Dec. 8. Morrison, the bad boy "lizard king" who became a...

11:01 AM, Dec 10, 2010

Florida: A Florida mother has been arrested for her alleged part in attempting to sell her 8-week-old son, police said Tuesday. Stephanie Bigbee Fleming, 22, is the third person charged in the case. Her mother, Patty Bigbee, 45, and her mother's boyfriend, Lawrence Works, 42, were arrested and charged last week. Fleming was already incarcerated on unrelated charges. Bigbee is accused of having approached a potential buyer in late October,...

01:46 PM, Nov 10, 2010