Authorities investigating an apparent suicide discovered weapons and explosive devices in a dorm on the University of Central Florida campus in Orlando early Monday, and hundreds of students were evacuated, though the school said there was no immediate threat. University police were called to the dorm around 12:20 am after a fire alarm went off, UCF spokesman Grant Heston said. ...
07:11 PM, Mar 18, 2013
A small plane crashed into a parking lot near a South Florida airport on Friday afternoon, killing all three people onboard and burning about a dozen vehicles. No one on the ground was hurt. ...
11:04 AM, Mar 16, 2013
If you think only little girls are infatuated with the classic Barbie doll, think again. A Florida man has a collection of 2,000 barbies worth over 80 thousand dollars. ...
09:04 AM, Mar 10, 2013
The former world number one shot his third even-par round of 70 to leave himself out of title contention. ...
11:52 PM, Mar 02, 2013
In a matter of seconds, the earth opened under Jeff Bush's bedroom and swallowed him up like something out of a horror movie. About the only thing left was the TV cable running down into the hole. ...
12:10 PM, Mar 02, 2013
Third-seeded Sam Querrey moved into the second round of the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships when fellow American Michael Russell retired with a left leg injury while trailing 6-2, 2-2 Monday. ...
09:46 AM, Feb 26, 2013
A Sikh man has been admitted to a hospital after being shot at several times by some unidentified attackers in the US state of Florida. The victim Kanwaljit Singh, 46, was attacked by the truck-borne assailants near Daytona Beach on last Saturday night. ...
08:25 AM, Feb 26, 2013
President Barack Obama saw firsthand how golf is played at the highest level on Sunday, teeing off with Tiger Woods, the world's No 2 golfer who is rebuilding a once-squeaky clean image tarnished by a messy 2010 divorce. Obama, an avid weekend golfer, and Woods, who won his 75th title in January, played together for the first time at the exclusive Floridian Yacht and Golf Club, which was surrounded by...
08:36 AM, Feb 19, 2013
Santa Domingo: An American magician was recuperating in the Dominican Republic after a local television show host lit his head on fire with a flammable cologne. Chico, California-native Wayne Houchin said he is receiving treatment for burns that doctors are cautiously optimistic will not result in scars. A yesterday statement on his Facebook page says he is "resting, healing and working through the legal process" in the Caribbean nation, where...
11:43 AM, Dec 03, 2012
Washington: Physicist Albert Einstein's brain had an "extraordinary" prefrontal cortex - unlike those of most people - which may have contributed to his remarkable genius, a new study has claimed. According to the study led by Florida State University evolutionary anthropologist Dean Falk, portions of Einstein's brain have been found to be unlike those of most people and could be related to his extraordinary cognitive abilities. Falk and his colleagues...
04:54 PM, Nov 16, 2012
St Petersburg, Florida: Four days after the election, President Barack Obama can finally claim victory in Florida. The state finished counting its votes Saturday. Obama was declared the, giving him a 332 to 206 final margin in the Electoral College. Florida officials said Obama had 50 per cent of the vote to Romney's 49.1 per cent, a margin of about 74,000 votes. The win gave Obama victories in eight of...
11:27 PM, Nov 10, 2012
Sanford: One day left in their stubbornly deadlocked race, President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney are storming through a final exhaustive campaign push Monday that won't end until the wee hours of Election Day in pursuit of every possible vote. Both candidates say the winner will be determined by which of their operations can get the most supporters to the polls. "This is going to be a turnout election,"...
08:05 PM, Nov 05, 2012
Washington: Better late than never! A 99-year-old woman in the US has lived through 24 presidential elections, but has chosen this year's close contest to cast her first ballot. Rosie Lewis, of Fort Myers, Florida, who received her ballot in the mail, got some help from a family friend to register and credits the election of President Barack Obama in 2008 for inspiring her to cast her first vote this...
03:41 PM, Nov 05, 2012
Washington: The last of NASA's retired spacecraft Atlantis slowly covered its historic last journey to its final resting place after the US space agency ended its 30-year shuttle program in 2011. The shuttle made its 15.8 kilometres journey on Friday from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, permanently to a visitor centre where it will be put for public display in a $100 million hall due to open in July. Accompanied...
04:33 PM, Nov 03, 2012
Boca Raton: President Barack Obama sharply challenged Mitt Romney on foreign policy in their final campaign debate on Monday night, saying, "every time you've offered an opinion you've been wrong." Romney said that Obama took an 'apology tour' to the Middle East, which the US President vehemently denied by saying, "Nothing Romney said is true, starting with me supposedly apologising." The Republican coolly responded, "Attacking me is not an agenda"...
07:13 AM, Oct 23, 2012
Washington: Seeking re-election, President Barack Obama is preparing to clash with his Republican rival Mitt Romney over foreign policy issues like Libya, Irans nuclear weapons programme, China and situation in the Af-Pak region in their last US presidential debate before the polls. Unlike the second debate in New York wherein the questions were asked by a select group of audience, at Boca Raton in Florida, the moderator Bob Schieffer of...
10:12 AM, Oct 22, 2012
Florida: A Florida company said on Monday that its files - not an FBI agent's laptop - were hacked by a renegade group that released Apple product identification data it claimed to have obtained through a breach of the nation's top law enforcement agency. "We want to apologize, announce what happened and set the record straight," said Paul DeHart, chief executive officer of software company BlueToad Inc, told Reuters. FBI...
10:54 AM, Sep 11, 2012
Barack Obama was campaigning in Florida when he met Scott Van, a registered Republican. ...
03:12 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Republican Mitt Romney left no opportunity in hitting out at President Barack Obama at the Florida Convention. All eyes are now on the Democrat Convention that will take place on Thursday. ...
09:15 AM, Sep 04, 2012
This will be Mitt Romney's first speech after officially being announced as the Republican Party's Presidential nominee. ...
10:14 AM, Aug 31, 2012
