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• Search for missing skydiver narrows

  January 6, 2013 12:38 PM

  NORTH BEND, Wash. (AP) - Crews have narrowed the area they're searching in the rugged Cascade foothills for a skydiver who vanished during a jump. King County sheriff's Sgt. Cindi West says they made the decision based on the flight pattern of the helicopter he jumped from and information from... more »

• Four days after election Florida called for Obama

  November 10, 2012 1:08 PM

  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Four days after the election, President Barack Obama can finally claim victory in Florida. The state finished counting its votes Saturday. Obama was declared the, giving him a 332 to 206 final margin in the Electoral College. Florida officials said Obama had 50 percent of... more »

• Full Dragon exits space station, Earth next stop

  October 28, 2012 11:58 AM

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The Dragon has left the space station and is headed back to Earth. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station released the commercial cargo ship Sunday morning. The California-based SpaceX company will steer its unmanned capsule to a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday afternoon,... more »

• Presidential debate hosts face lengthy checklist

  October 20, 2012 10:44 AM

  BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - A small Florida college is awaiting its moment in the spotlight as the host of the final presidential debate. Lynn University in Boca Raton is being transformed from a little-known school to the site of one of the most high-profile events of the campaign. Landing... more »

• Singer Arlo Guthrie says wife, Jackie, has died

  October 16, 2012 8:50 PM

  WASHINGTON, Mass. (AP) - Folk singer Arlo Guthrie has announced the death of his wife, Jackie, at age 68. An obituary released by Guthrie's record label says Jackie Guthrie had inoperable cancer and died Sunday at the couple's winter home in Sebastian, Fla. They had recently celebrated their 43rd wedding... more »

• Watchdog group files complaint against Sec. of State Gessler

  October 16, 2012 12:52 PM

  DENVER (AP) - A spokesman for Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler is dismissing a call for an investigation of a complaint that Gessler misused state funds to return from the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla. Andrew Cole tells the Denver Post the allegations by Ethics Watch are a... more »

• Private space station delivery set for Sunday launch

  October 7, 2012 12:15 PM

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A private company is on the verge of launching another cargo ship to the International Space Station. On Sunday night, California-based SpaceX will attempt to send a California-based SpaceX to the orbiting lab. Liftoff is scheduled for 8:35 p.m. from Cape Canaveral. Forecasters put the... more »

• Spacewalking team conquers bolt, installs box

  September 5, 2012 12:43 PM

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Spacewalking astronauts have triumphed over a stubborn bolt. Japanese spaceman Akihiko Hoshide successfully drove the bolt all the way home Wednesday, after cleaning out the socket with homemade tools. That paved the way for the installation of a critical power-switching box. Hoshide and American Sunita... more »

• Florida teen gets her chance to play quarterback

  September 1, 2012 1:48 PM

  PLANTATION, Fla. (AP) - The third-string quarterback for South Plantation High School wears No. 13 as a tribute to Dan Marino, and her parents met at a Miami Dolphins game. She also has a ponytail sticking out of her helmet. Erin Dimeglio put up these stats on Friday night: No... more »

• Obama-Romney race is focused on 7 states

  August 26, 2012 10:59 AM

  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - With the Republican convention beginning tomorrow and the Democrats kicking off a week later, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are still looking to lock up states that could get them to the 270 electoral votes needed to win in November. An Associated Press analysis of... more »

• Storms spoil NASA's 2nd launch bid for satellites

  August 25, 2012 10:45 AM

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Thunderstorms have ruined NASA's second attempt to launch a pair of science satellites. For the second day in a row, NASA had to halt the countdown for its Radiation Belt Storm Probes. Lightning and thick storm clouds prevented the unmanned rocket from taking off early... more »

• Dolphins' Chad Johnson out of jail on $2,500 bond

  August 12, 2012 1:36 PM

  DAVIE, Fla. (AP) - Dolphins receiver Chad Johnson has been released from a Florida jail on $2,500. He had been charged with domestic violence after his wife accused him of head-butting her during an argument. Jail officials say the 34-year-old Johnson was released Sunday. Johnson's defense attorney, Adam Swickle, says... more »

• States fight 'tourists' trafficking painkillers

  July 8, 2012 2:40 PM

  LEBANON, Ohio (AP) - As he sat in the doctor's office, ex-boxer and weightlifter Gerald Dixon explained that years of sports had left him in pain, especially his hands, and he was looking for relief. After a cursory examination at the clinic in West Palm Beach, Fla., Dixon left with... more »

• World's first commercial supply ship ready for space station departure

  May 30, 2012 4:44 PM

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The world's first commercial supply ship is closed up and ready for a Thursday flight back to Earth from the International Space Station. Astronauts sealed the hatch to the SpaceX Dragon capsule on Wednesday. It's loaded with 1,400 pounds of experiments and old equipment for... more »

• Private company's 1st space station visit on track

  April 16, 2012 6:04 PM

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A private U.S. company is on track to become the first commercial visitor to the International Space Station. NASA said Monday there's a good chance that SpaceX will make its April 30 launch date. More software testing is needed before a final "go" is given.... more »

• Fla. woman pleads not guilty in 'toxic tush' case

  April 8, 2012 12:34 PM

  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A Florida woman accused by authorities of illegally injecting toxic substances into women's buttocks as an enhancement procedure has pleaded not guilty. The South Florida Sun Sentinel reports Oneal Ron Morris sent a written plea of not guilty to a Broward County judge on Thursday.... more »

• Mercury workers gather 50 years after Glenn launch

  February 18, 2012 2:50 PM

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Veterans of NASA's Project Mercury have landed in Cape Canaveral this weekend to celebrate 50 years of orbital flight. This Monday will mark the golden anniversary of John Glenn's momentous circling of the globe. More than 100 men and women who helped launch Glenn and... more »

• Gingrich defends call for more US space exploration

  January 28, 2012 10:37 AM

  STUART, Fla. (AP) - Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich says critics of his call to ramp up U.S. space exploration don't understand the power of science, technology and entrepreneurship to change the future. Campaign rival Mitt Romney was referring to Gingrich earlier this week when he said that if any... more »

• Gingrich vows to establish a colony on the moon

  January 25, 2012 7:18 PM

  COCOA, Fla. (AP) - Newt Gingrich is promising to establish a permanent base on the moon by 2020 if he's elected president. Gingrich, the former House speaker, told an overflow crowd gathered on Florida's space coast Wednesday that he wants to develop a robust commercial space industry in line with... more »

• Moms who supported Obama in '08 unsure about 2012

  November 2, 2011 8:21 PM

  MAITLAND, Fla. (AP) - First, there were soccer moms deciding presidential elections. This time around, it's the Walmart moms. Two polling firms, one Democratic and one Republican, have teamed up to track women who have children at home under 18 and who shop at the discount giant retailer. Their... more »

• Popular homeless destination making progress with numbers

  September 5, 2011 4:00 PM

  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - St. Petersburg has struggled for years with some of the most rampant homelessness in the country. But it wasn't until this summer that downtown residents and visitors started seeing some progress. The once-ubiquitous crowd of homeless hanging out and sleeping all over downtown streets... more »

• NASA launching twin moon probes to measure gravity

  September 5, 2011 3:49 PM

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA is returning to the moon four decades after landing men there. A set of robotic twins will measure lunar gravity while chasing one another in circles around the moon. The two spacecraft are each about the size of a washing machine and will... more »

• Anti-Islam preacher plans NYC rally ahead of 9/11

  August 12, 2011 8:08 PM

  DETROIT (AP) - A Florida preacher whose past rhetoric against Muslims has roiled anti-Western sentiment and set off protests overseas says he'll hold a rally in New York City before the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Terry Jones told Michigan's MLive.com this week that he and... more »

• Bail set at $25K after fatal punch in Vegas casino

  July 12, 2011 6:25 PM

  LAS VEGAS (AP) - A judge has set bail at $25,000 for a Florida high school football coach charged with murder after a punch left a man dead in a Las Vegas Strip casino. Jack Buchanan, an attorney for 37-year-old Benjamin Hawkins of Gainesville, Fla., said his family was... more »

• Last 4 shuttle astronauts arrive for countdown

  July 4, 2011 3:42 PM

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The four astronauts who will close out NASA's space shuttle program are at their Florida launch site, eager for a Friday takeoff. Commander Christopher Ferguson and his crew flew into Kennedy Space Center from Houston on Monday, the Fourth of July. NASA staff handed... more »