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Brandon Marlow walks through surge waters flooding the street after Hurricane Milton came ashore in the Sarasota area in Fort Myers, Florida, on October 09, 2024.

Hurricane Milton is unleashing life-threatening flooding and destructive winds. Here’s what we know

CNN Staff October 10, 2024

CNN — Hurricane Milton dropped thousand-year rainfall and unleashed life-threatening storm surge with destructive winds across a large stretch of Florida after making landfall near Siesta Key, Florida,...

Kamala Harris to visit Florida Wednesday as six-week abortion ban goes into effect

MJ Lee and Donald Judd, CNN May 1, 2024

CNN -- Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Florida on Wednesday just hours after a controversial ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy goes into effect in the...

Hurricane Idalia unleashes fury on Florida and Georgia, swamping wide stretch of coast

Daniel Kozin, AP August 30, 2023

CEDAR KEY, Fla. (AP) — Hurricane Idalia made landfall Wednesday in Florida as a Category 3 storm and unleashed devastation along a wide stretch of the Gulf Coast, submerging homes and vehicles, turning...

Tropical Storm Idalia prompts evacuations along Florida’s Gulf Coast ahead of expected Category 3 landfall

CNN– Tropical Storm Idalia is expected to strengthen into a hurricane Monday and bring life-threatening and potentially catastrophic storm surge, winds and flooding rainfall to Florida’s Gulf Coast...

Florida teacher says she is under investigation after showing 5th grade class Disney movie with gay character

Melissa Alonso and Isabel Rosales, CNN May 15, 2023

  CNN -- A fifth-grade teacher said she is being investigated by the Florida Department of Education after she showed her students “Strange World,” a 2022 animated Disney movie featuring a character...

Members of the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District Board of Supervisors listen to special general counsel Daniel Langley outline a resolution to invalidate Disney's final agreement with the previous board, the Reedy Creek Improvement District, Wednesday, April 26, 2023.
(Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/AP)

DeSantis-aligned board votes to sue Disney

Steve Contorno, CNN May 1, 2023

CNN– The board overseeing Disney’s special taxing district – which was appointed by and is aligned with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis – voted on Monday to sue the company days after the entertainment...

Historic rain in South Florida causes severe flooding, closing schools and Fort Lauderdale’s airport

CNN -- More rain is in the forecast after substantial downpours inundated Fort Lauderdale and parts of South Florida in a 1-in-1,000 year rainfall event, leading to a flash flood emergency in Broward County...

Third teenage suspect arrested in Florida triple homicide

Michelle Watson and Zoe Sottile, CNN April 9, 2023

CNN -- A third juvenile suspect sought in connection with the recent shooting deaths of three teenagers in Central Florida has been arrested, according to police. The US Marshals...

How Disney maneuvered to save its Florida kingdom, leaving DeSantis threatening retaliation

Steve Contorno, CNN April 8, 2023

CNN — In his yearlong battle with Disney, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has repeatedly leaned on the element of surprise in his attempts to outmaneuver the entertainment giant and its army of executives,...

Workers remove sargassum from a beach in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, in June. Orlando Barria/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

A seaweed blob twice the width of the US is heading toward Florida. Here’s what you should know

Jackie Wattles and Kristen Rogers, CNN March 18, 2023

CNN — A giant blob of seaweed twice the width of the continental United States is headed for the shores of Florida and other coastlines throughout the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to dump smelly and...

TV station identifies slain reporter among the 3 killed in a Florida shooting spree

CNN -- A gunman in central Florida killed a woman Wednesday, returned to the scene and killed a TV journalist covering that death, and then fatally shot a 9-year-old girl nearby before he was arrested,...

Rep. Matt Gaetz
(CNN)

FIRST ON CNN: DOJ officially decides not to charge Matt Gaetz in sex-trafficking probe

Paula Reid, CNN February 15, 2023

CNN—  The Justice Department has informed lawyers for at least one witness that it will not bring charges against Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz after a years-long federal sex-trafficking investigation,...