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Passengers caught with swords, hammers, baseball bats by TSA

May 12, 2019 at 4:48 a.m.

Deep in the bowels of Orlando International Airport is a small storage room crammed with plastic bins filled with power tools, hammers, samurai swords, meat cleavers and machetes. The seized...

Sanford International Airport to replace TSA with private security

May 12, 2019 at 5:00 a.m.

Private guards will take over security at Orlando Sanford International Airport early next year — a move U.S. Rep. John Mica and airport Director Larry Dale predict will result in...

Predicting Ivan’s course remains inexact science

August 18, 2019 at 3:04 p.m.

Where will Hurricane Ivan come ashore? Supercomputers in facilities from Florida to Maryland to California have been trying to answer that question for days. Programmed with decades of hurricane history,...

Millions see familiar sight: Darkness

August 18, 2019 at 3:03 p.m.

Hurricane Frances cut electricity to an estimated 5 million people -- a quarter of them in Central Florida -- as it slogged across the state Sunday. Although lacking the sustained...

Few lights, but many questions

August 18, 2019 at 3:02 p.m.

Utility-company crews had restored electricity by Monday to half of the 1.5 million Central Florida residents who lost power in Hurricane Charley, but this success spawned new anxiety and envy...

Almost 1 million residents still without power

August 18, 2019 at 3:02 p.m.

Power companies Sunday restored electricity to one in five customers left in the dark by Hurricane Charley, but nearly 1 million Central Florida residents faced the prospect of a cold...

1.5 million without power in area

August 18, 2019 at 3:02 p.m.

More than 1.5 million Central Florida residents went to bed Saturday night without electricity to cool their homes, warm their showers or refrigerate their food. And as much as a...

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