Associated PressSeptember 5, 2023
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Preliminary forecasts are not predicting any landfall.
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Associated PressSeptember 5, 2023
Wes WolfeNovember 4, 2022
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State officials led eradication of the Oriental fruit fly recently in St. Petersburg.
Jacob OglesAugust 16, 2021
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The storm would hit Northwest Floridaa on Monday afternoon.
Associated PressJuly 5, 2021
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Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency in six counties.
Guest AuthorOctober 3, 2019
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Many take it upon themselves to step up when disaster strikes.
Associated PressOctober 12, 2017
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Florida health officials are reporting the state’s first case this year of the Zika virus transmitted by a local mosquito. Florida’s Department of Health said Thursday a Manatee County couple traveled to Cuba, and one of them contracted Zika while on the Caribbean island and was bitten by a mosquito after returning home. That mosquito […]
Associated PressSeptember 14, 2017
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As Irma’s misery grows in scope and scale, so does its death toll. The most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the open Atlantic eventually claimed dozens of lives as it tore up the Caribbean and the southeastern United States. Still more are dying in its aftermath. The victims include eight residents of a sweltering Florida […]
Associated PressSeptember 13, 2017
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Florida could recover from Hurricane Irma’s wrath in time for its busy tourism season this winter, but that’s likely not the case for harder-hit Caribbean islands including St. Martin/St. Maarten, the U.S. and British Virgin Islands and Barbuda, according to travel experts’ early reads. Damage assessments still were underway yesterday, but impacts on Florida’s $100 […]
Phil AmmannSeptember 11, 2017
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Telecommunications giant AT&T is giving another $1.4 million in relief toward “sustained recovery” efforts in Florida, Texas and the Caribbean after a pair of devastating hurricanes. The additional money will include $1 million in matching donations to Team Rubicon — a veteran-led nonprofit disaster response group — as well as $150,000 to Telecoms Sans Frontieres, […]
Associated PressMay 24, 2017
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Zika began spreading in Florida mosquitoes about three months before infections showed up in the Miami area last summer, and the virus likely was carried in by travelers from the Caribbean, new research suggests. Mosquitoes there started picking up the virus from infected travelers as early as March last year, according to scientists who examined […]