An Allegiant Airlines plane departing from the St. Petersburg Clearwater airport this morning had to turn around for an emergency landing. Flight 844 took off just after 7:30 a.m. heading for Newburgh New York but then experienced hydraulics issues. The plane circled the Gulf Of Mexico dumping fuel before landing safely at the St. Petersburg Clearwater Airport.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Wednesday warned that the state will experience a “disaster” with the Zika virus if federal authorities don’t immediately provide money to help battle the virus. Scott, who had already visited Washington D.C. in an effort to get Congress to act, sent a
strongly-worded letter to President Barack Obama where he called on the federal government to do something immediately.
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Hillary Clinton will attack Donald Trump on world politics. The Democratic presidential front-runner will unleash a major foreign policy attack on the presumptive GOP nominee, using a speech to cast the billionaire businessman as unqualified and dangerous.
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UCLA tries to move on after a deadly and chaotic day. Classes resume at the Los Angeles university following a murder-suicide that locked down the campus, while police try to determine what led to the shooting in a small office of an engineering building.
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BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — All five Republican candidates for U.S. Senate are scheduled to appear on the same stage for the first time during the statewide campaign. The candidates are taking part Thursday in a forum billed as “Florida Future U.S. Senate” in Boca Raton.
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MIAMI (AP) – Attorneys for a group of Cuban migrants want a federal judge to allow them to remain in the U.S. after they climbed onto a lighthouse offshore from the Florida Keys but never reached dry land. A judge in Miami is holding a hearing Thursday to decide whether the 21 Cubans can stay in the U.S. or must be returned to Cuba.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is proposing a clampdown on providers of high-interest loans, saying borrowers need to be protected from practices that wind up turning into “debt traps.”
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No decision has been made yet on whether charges will be brought against the parents of a 3-year-old boy who fell into a gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Three more families of crewmembers lost when the freighter El Faro sank last year have reached financial settlements with the company who owned the vessel. The Florida Times-Union reports that papers filed in federal court on Tuesday show that representatives for crewmembers Frank Hamm III, James Phillip Porter Jr. and Roosevelt Lazarra Clark settled for $500,000 with Tote Services, Inc.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida police officer is expected in court for the first time after he was charged with manslaughter and attempted murder for the fatal shooting of a legally armed black musician last fall. Fired Palm Beach Gardens officer Nouman Raja is scheduled to make his initial appearance Thursday on charges stemming from the Oct. 18 shooting of 31-year-old Corey Jones.
