A Disney stunt performer died Monday night after suffering an injury during a rehearsal, company and local officials said. Walt Disney World spokeswoman Zoraya Suarez said the performer was injured while performing a tumbling roll for the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, part of the Orlando, Florida, theme park. It was the third fatal incident at the park in less than two months
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Claudette makes landfall on Florida Panhandle
Tropical Storm Claudette made landfall in the Florida Panhandle early Monday. The storm hit near the eastern end of Santa Rosa Island, just southeast of Fort Walton Beach in Florida, about 1:15 a.m. ET, the National Weather Service said.
Tropical Storm Claudette bears down on Florida
Tropical Storm Claudette was on course late Sunday afternoon to hit the Florida Panhandle in the evening, and the storm’s outer rain bands already were pushing into the area. At 5 p.m
Florida Panhandle warned of tropical storm threat
A warning was issued overnight for a potential tropical storm that may hit the Florida-Alabama border Sunday. It formed in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, according to the National Hurricane Center. A tropical storm warning means that weather conditions will deteriorate in the next 24 hours
President Obama’s Latin Challenge
Few things have peeved Latin America more than Washington’s hypocrisy regarding coups. Overthrowing our friends at gunpoint is bad, the traditional U.S. line seemed to go, but toppling our foes — even the democratically elected ones — is O.K
Man, 92, wins $1.9 million tobacco judgment in wife’s death
A Florida jury awarded a 92-year-old man $1.9 million in compensatory damages for the death of his wife, a former two-pack-a-day Marlboro smoker who started when she was 16 and died in her 70s, attorneys said Thursday. The jury of five women and one man deliberated for slightly more than a day before deciding on the amount, attorneys for both sides said.
Bedouin helps find Gulf War pilot remains, Pentagon says
A Bedouin who was just a boy when a U.S.
Half All Mortgage Holders Are Expected To Be Underwater
If you’re not already underwater on your mortgage, there’s a decent chance you will be.
Dogs and the Scent of a Crime: Science or Shaky Evidence?
In detective dramas, a dog’s powerful sense of smell has become a predictable crime solver: the trusty canine takes a sniff of a suspect object and follows the scent, eventually coming to the perpetrator of the evil deed.
At least 26 hurt as airliner hits turbulence
Severe turbulence shook a Continental Airlines flight Monday, injuring 26 passengers — four seriously — and forcing the aircraft to divert to Miami, Florida, an airport fire official said. There were 168 passengers on Flight 128, which was originally headed from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Houston, Texas, according to Lt. Elkin Sierra of the Miami-Dade Fire Department