MEXICO BEACH, Fla.—Missing relatives and worries that looters are just outside the door. Dirty clothes. Hours-long lines for gasoline, insurance adjusters, food, and water. No power, no air conditioning, no schools, no information, and little real improvement in sight. Daily life is a series of fears and frustrations, both large and small, for thousands of […]

PANAMA CITY, Fla.—Their home full of soggy furniture and mosquitoes, Wilmer Capps was desperate to find shelter for his wife and their son Luke, born just three days after Hurricane Michael ravaged the Florida Panhandle. So Capps, his wife Lorrainda Smith and little Luke settled in for the longest of nights in the best spot […]

Tents have been erected at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, which was heavily damaged by Hurricane Michael. Military personnel erected the tents on Tuesday, Oct. 16, the same day officials told residents, which include military members and civilian employees as well as their families, that they could return to the base to check their […]

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla.—A lack of power and phone service in the areas of Florida flattened by Hurricane Michael last week was hindering efforts on Oct. 17 to distribute food and water and to contact residents not heard from since the storm plowed through the state’s Panhandle. The hurricane, one of the most powerful storms […]

A reported sighting of missing Wisconsin teenager Jayme Closs at a Miami gas station turned out to not be credible and has been dismissed, officials said. Over 200 tips have been received on a special tipline, officials said, but a tip from a witness in Florida who said they may have seen Jayme, 13, at […]

Miami Police Department detectives were reviewing surveillance video on Oct. 16, from a gas station where missing Wisconsin girl Jayme Closs was possibly spotted by a witness in Florida late Monday. Closs was missing when law enforcement officers arrived at her family’s home in Barron, Wisconsin, on Oct. 15 and found her parent’s dead, prompting […]

A Florida middle school has apologized to a student and his mother after the student was incorrectly told he shouldn’t wear a shirt bearing the Republican Party’s elephant logo. The student’s mother, who asked to remain anonymous, said that her son wore a red, white, and blue shirt that featured the logo to school during […]

A Florida mother died on Saturday, Oct. 13, trying to save her children from a rip current. Samar Aboukhdair, 36, was watching eight children—six of her own and two others—when a rip current caught some of them, prompting the mother to rush into the ocean at St. Pete Beach in Pinellas County. The Pinellas County […]

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump visited Florida and later Georgia on Oct. 15 to survey the destruction caused by Hurricane Michael, which left the seaside town of Mexico Beach as a pile of rubble. Before the Trumps boarded a helicopter with Gov. Rick Scott at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, the president spoke […]

Officials with the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office posted video footage that shows a man trying to pull out a loaded gun during a traffic stop. The man, identified as 50-year-old Darren Moore in a CBS12 report, was pulled over by deputies on Oct. 13. Deputies said they could smell marijuana in his car, and they […]

MEXICO BEACH, Fla.—Dozens of people remained missing on Oct. 14 in Florida Panhandle communities reduced to ruins by Hurricane Michael as rescuers said they expected the death toll to rise and survivors grappled with power outages and shortages of food and water. Already at least 18 deaths in four states have been blamed on the hurricane […]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—It was once argued that the trees would help save Florida’s Panhandle from the fury of a hurricane, as the acres of forests in the region would provide a natural barrier to savage winds that accompany the deadly storms. It’s part of the reason that tighter building codes — mandatory in places such as […]

An alleged looter was shot dead by police in hurricane-hit Panama City, Florida, according to reports. WEAR-TV reported that the man was shot and killed near the Tidewater Estates and Dune Creek after Hurricane Michael slammed the Florida Panhandle, reducing entire towns and communities to rubble. A witness told WEAR-TV that the man was allegedly […]

A 60-year-old Florida man was arrested on Oct. 11 for allegedly molesting a girl under 12 years old at Davidson Middle School in Crestview, a Hurricane Michael evacuation center. John Stapleton was charged with lewd and lascivious molestation of someone under 12 years old. A witness told Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office deputies that she saw a […]

The 11-year-old girl killed by Hurricane Michael was visiting her grandparents in southwest Georgia, near the border with Florida, when she died. Officials had said previously she was killed on Oct. 10 in Seminole County after the high winds picked up a mobile carport and slammed it through the roof of her house. Family members […]

Video footage has emerged of looters going through a Family Dollar store in the wake of Hurricane Michael in Florida. Footage posted by YouTube account Live Storms Media showed people grabbing items from the Hurricane Michael-damaged storm. “About 40 people are seen looting, ransacking and cleaning out a destroyed Family Dollar in Panama City after […]

Tyndall Air Force Base sustained “catastrophic” damage when Hurricane Michael hit. The storm, a strong Category 4 system, directly hit the base on Oct. 10. Air Force officials said that due to the damage, the base will likely be uninhabited for weeks, according to the military news website Stars and Stripes. The roofing was torn […]

Stunning before-and-after footage has emerged of Mexico Beach, Florida, which was hammered by Hurricane Michael. Weather Channel forecaster Chris Dolce posted the footage, showing the Florida Panhandle city’s structure’s “completely gone” in the wake of the Category 4 hurricane. Other before-and-after footage emerged. Panama City, Apalachicola, and Port St. Joe were all hard-hit during the […]

Two deaths were confirmed as caused by Hurricane Michael, as the storm was downgraded after inflicting widespread destruction in Florida and some surrounding states as a Category 4 hurricane. The hurricane killed at least two people in the United States, officials said, after leaving 13 people dead in Central America earlier in the week. Authorities […]

The National Hurricane Center said Hurricane Michael has weakened to a tropical storm as it moves across Georgia on Oct. 11. Michael moved through the City of Thomasville and was blasting wind speeds of up to 60-70 mph, although it is forecast to continue slowing down. Officials warned that, after what has been the worst storm in […]