Mitt Romney is now officially the Republican nominee for US President, as the Republican Party convention began in Tampa, Florida. ...
09:56 AM, Aug 29, 2012
Florida: Tropical Storm Isaac lashed south Florida with winds and heavy rain on Monday after battering the Caribbean, threatening to interrupt most US offshore oil production in the Gulf of Mexico and disrupting plans for the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Isaac is expected to strengthen to a Category 2 hurricane and hit the Gulf Coast somewhere between Florida and Louisiana at midweek, on or near the seventh anniversary of...
08:46 AM, Aug 27, 2012
Hunte says he is pleased with the impact of the two Twenty20 Internationals played in Florida, US, last weekend. ...
02:06 PM, Jul 04, 2012
The opener said West Indies should keep up the pressure in Sunday's second T20 after winning the first match. ...
10:54 PM, Jul 01, 2012
New Zealand suffered a spate of injuries while fielding during their 56-run loss to West Indies in the first T20. ...
02:53 PM, Jul 01, 2012
Gayle slammed an unbeaten 85 and Pollard 63 not out to set up a 56-run victory for the West Indies. ...
06:53 AM, Jul 01, 2012
The West Indies offspinner was speaking ahead of the T20 series against New Zealand in Florida. ...
08:40 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Considering the large Caribbean population in Florida, this weekend's T20Is in Lauderhill are expected to draw bigger crowds than in 2010. ...
07:10 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Miami: He's the non-candidate they never stop talking about. Ever since Jeb Bush left the Florida governor's mansion in 2007 with favourable ratings after two terms, speculation has swirled about his political future. The chatter has only gotten louder this year amid the Republican Party's "veepstakes" - despite Bush's repeated insistence that he is not in the running. Bush appeared to put the issue to rest in a recent series...
10:31 PM, Jun 23, 2012
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
