The NBA’s been on pause since March but will be back in full effect on Thursday. What’s happened since the stoppage and what’s about to happen?
Supporters of the bill say armed teachers could save lives in the event of a school shooting
Hurricane Florence has the potential to bring catastrophic flooding to areas of the eastern United States already soaked by heavy rain
Many will risk losing their largest financial asset — their homes. And municipalities will forfeit huge amounts of revenue from property taxes
America’s long moribund gun control debate was revived by survivors of the Parkland shooting and now the minimum age to buy firearms in Florida is 21
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The president’s comments came as he faces criticism from survivors of the attack over his ties to the powerful National Rifle Association
Authorities warned late on Wednesday that the death toll could rise as some of the more than 14 people who were wounded were in critical condition
The world’s most powerful rocket, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, blasted off Tuesday on its highly anticipated maiden test flight
The hurricane caused severe flooding and killed four people in the Dominican Republic as well as at least 13 in Haiti.
The Palm Beach County elections office first reported finding 106 potentially fraudulent registration forms earlier this week.
31 people have been killed and entire communities have been wiped out as a total of tornadoes have ripped through USA’s heartland.
There once was a place where neighbours greeted neighbours in the quiet of summer twilight.
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/ 9 December 2007
Nasa cancelled its second launch attempt of space shuttle Atlantis after a sensor in an emergency engine cutoff system failed again on Sunday, once more delaying Europe’s major contribution to the International Space Station. Atlantis and its seven astronauts are due to deliver Europe’s Columbus science laboratory module to the space station.
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/ 1 December 2007
Daredevil Evel Knievel, who dodged death in spectacular motorcycle leaps and crashes in a life full of showmanship, died on November 30 at age 69, according to his lawyer and a message on his website. ”I just spoke with him last night [Friday]. He seemed to be in good spirits,” said Knievel’s lawyer, Richard Fee.
The United States space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a construction mission to the International Space Station on Friday, ending a three-month grounding to repair the ship’s hail-battered fuel tank. The launch bolstered Nasa’s hopes of finishing work on the -billion orbital research outpost.
Lisa Nowak was in the astronaut corps for a decade before she took her first and only space shuttle flight last summer during Discovery‘s 13-day trip to the International Space Station. It took only a half year from her return to Earth for her to lose her job as an astronaut.
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/ 30 January 2007
United States tennis captain Zina Garrison announced on Monday that Venus Williams, who missed the Australian Open with a left wrist injury, will play in the first round of the Fed Cup on April 21-22 at the Delray Beach Stadium and Tennis Centre.
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/ 22 December 2006
Serena and Venus Williams did not violate a contract with two promoters by not appearing at a 2001 tennis event, a jury ruled on Thursday. Promoters said they lost millions of dollars because the stars did not play, but jurors agreed with the argument of their attorney that their father, Richard Williams, was not empowered to represent them when he made the deal.
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/ 26 October 2006
An unmanned Delta rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral air force station in Florida on Wednesday carrying a pair of solar probes to track potentially disruptive solar storms. The Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or Stereo, is designed to take three-dimensional pictures of the solar outbursts so scientists can pinpoint where the storms are heading.
Workers may have accidentally cut or crushed the section of foam that broke off Discovery‘s fuel tank during its launch two months ago — a mishap that threatened the safety of the astronauts and grounded the shuttle fleet. That is the leading theory for the cause behind the disturbing loss of foam insulation that cast a cloud over Nasa’s return to space, said Wayne Hale, the new manager of the space shuttle programme.
Discovery‘s crew early on Tuesday made final preparations for a predawn return to Earth that will mark the conclusion of the first space shuttle flight since the 2003 Columbia disaster. The seven astronauts closed the payload area’s massive baydoors in preparation for the homebound journey that initially had been scheduled for Monday.
The landing of the beleaguered Discovery space shuttle has been delayed due to low clouds over Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre, Nasa announced this morning. The seven astronauts were originally preparing to land on Monday morning, but the bad weather put the landing back to later in the day.
The United States space agency Nasa will hope to lay the ghosts of the Columbia disaster to rest on Monday morning as it guides the shuttle Discovery back to earth at the end of the US’s first manned space mission for two-and-a-half years.
Nasa pledged to press ahead with its troubled space shuttle programme on Thursday night after its decision to ground the ageing fleet over safety fears raised new questions about the agency’s future direction. Shuttle managers now admit they may never be able to solve the debris problem that doomed the Columbia shuttle two years ago.
Nasa was facing fresh questions about the future of its shuttle programme on Wednesday night after it was forced to ground the fleet because the problem with falling debris that doomed Columbia two years ago had struck again during the launch of Discovery.
Nasa’s long-awaited return to manned spaceflight looked in jeopardy on Tuesday night after technicians accidentally chipped part of the space shuttle Discovery less than 24 hours before Wednesday’s scheduled lift off. The space agency worked frantically overnight to assess the damage.
Hurricane Dennis sent Gulf coast residents fleeing on Sunday, but spared the region the worst of the predicted devastation after it weakened shortly before landfall. The hurricane, which left 32 people in Haiti and Cuba dead, arrived in Alabama and northwestern Florida packing 192kph winds, pounding the beachfronts in an area that was hit by Hurricane Ivan just 10 months ago.
Terri Schiavo, the severely brain damaged woman at the centre of a right-to-die controversy in the United States, died on Thursday in a Florida hospice almost two weeks after her feeding tube was cut off, a spokesperson for her parents said.
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/ 3 September 2004
The long avenues in West Palm Beach are deserted, stores are closed and shuttered, here and there a man struggles in the damp wind to board up his windows against the impending menace of Hurricane Frances, the worst storm to hit the state of Florida in 10 years. Frances should make landfall in Florida at 8pm local time on Saturday.
Hurricane Charley blew out of Florida on Saturday leaving death and destruction in its wake. The storm had battered the US coast with an unexpected wind force and a 15ft-high surge of seawater that destroyed airports, hospitals and homes. Initial estimates of fatalities ranged from dozens to more than 200.