CNN's Bonnie Schneider reports Tropical Storm Debby has formed in the Gulf of Mexico.
Coastal Alabama and a large section of the Florida panhandle remained under a flash flood watch early Monday, after a weekend in which some areas received more than 20 inches of rain.
Parts of the Florida Panhandle and coastal Alabama were under water Sunday, with an onslaught of torrential rains causing not just extensive flooding but also damage to roads and buildings, local officials said.
Conservationist John Davis talks about 'TrekEast,' his 5,000-mile journey up the east coast visiting the nations wildlands.
On a good day, John Davis will hike 15 miles. On the best days, he may only travel only two.
The 2011 Atlantic basin will see an above-average hurricane season, with the possibility of five major hurricanes, a nationally recognized forecast center said Wednesday.
A Florida corrections officer assisting in a manhunt died Wednesday in an exchange of gunfire with a murder suspect, who also died, authorities said.
A purse used to smack a gunman at a Florida school board meeting has sold on eBay for $13,100, the auction site said Wednesday.
Ginger Littleton and William Husfelt talk about the shootout that took place at a Florida school board meeting.
BP removed the failed blowout preventer from atop its plugged well deep below the Gulf of Mexico, the company said Friday.
President Barack Obama toured the waters off Panama City Beach by boat on Sunday as he capped a weekend visit aimed at sparking a recovery in the region hard-hit by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Tropical Depression Five dissipated as it moved through the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center said.
Tourists have been acting like the beaches of the Florida Panhandle are covered by oil, and for communities like Destin, their absence hurts.
One-day-old loggerhead turtles were set free adjacent to the Kennedy Space Center overnight, scurrying down a beach in the cover of darkness to begin their lives.
The wreckage of a plane that crashed in the Gulf of Mexico Friday afternoon has been located by Florida officials.
It's sort of like they're all dressed up with no place to go. But preparing for oil on your shore is not exactly a night out on the town.
In the Florida Panhandle, they're cleaning up oil fast to keep the tourists. CNN's David Mattingly reports.
Workers scraped oil off beaches and skimmed it out of waterways from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle on Monday, but the impact of the Gulf oil disaster will be felt for years, authorities said.
Federal authorities reopened about 340 square miles of federal waters off the Florida Panhandle east of Destin to fishing Monday after finding no sign of oil in that area, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration announced.
Oystermen in Florida's panhandle are scrambling ahead of the oil. CNN's John Zarrella reports.
You can feel the tension in the air and on the bay -- even on a Sunday.
Natl. Incident Commander Thad Allen says the oil collected will increase, but the ultimate solution is the relief wells.
About 250,000 gallons of oil have been funneled from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico, BP says. That's less than a third of the 798,000 gallons of crude federal authorities estimate are gushing into the ocean every day.
The leading edge of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill was still several miles off the beaches of the Florida Panhandle on Thursday morning, but the slick was already hitting the area's wallets.
Pensacola beaches are busy with beach-goers enjoying the famous white sand before oil washes ashore. WTSP reports.
CNN's Richard Lui talks to an Alabama resident who remains optimistic about her child's wedding despite the oil spill.
Ben Stone knows quite a bit about disasters.
One Mississippi businessman fears the oil spill will kill his seafood business. CNN's Sarah Hoye reports.
Along Florida's Gulf Coast, Dave Rauschkolb is bracing for impact. It's not a hurricane he is worried about. It's oil gushing from a well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.
Hurricane Bill was churning in the Atlantic Ocean early Monday evening with winds of 90 mph (145 kph), and forecasters said the storm -- still far from any shore -- could become a major hurricane by Wednesday.
Tropical Storm Claudette is expected to make landfall in the Florida Panhandle by early Monday, and the storm's outer bands already were pounding the area with heavy rain Sunday evening.
Pam Biggers, a 52-year-old woman from Hueytown, Alabama, disappeared while on a business trip to the Florida Panhandle.
Mother Nature provided a little bit of everything in several parts of the country on Saturday.
A man who authorities say defrauded investors and then tried to fake his own death by deliberately crashing his plane in the Florida Panhandle pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of intentionally destroying an aircraft and faking a distress call.
Hurricane Katrina victims still living in temporary housing along Mississippi's coastline should begin evacuating this weekend as Gustav approaches the Gulf Coast
The New Orleans area watched as a storm marched across the Caribbean on the eve of Hurricane Katrina's third anniversary
Fay flood rescue
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Emergency workers in Tallahassee, Florida rescue residents trapped by flood waters caused by Fay.
Flooding caused by the former Tropical Storm Fay prompted evacuations in parts of northern Florida on Sunday as what was left of the storm stalled over southern Mississippi.
Tropical Storm Fay was in no hurry as it made its way across the northern Florida peninsula Friday, its torrential rains and fierce winds leaving a trail of destruction behind and portending the future for areas in its path.
A federal judge rules that a Florida Panhandle school cannot prohibit expression of support for equal rights for gay students
A tropical depression in the Gulf came ashore along the Florida panhandle Friday night, but it did not strengthen into a tropical storm.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C., April 15 -- There was no golf today, or not much golf, anyhow. Not in Hilton Head, where the flagsticks were bent like old soldiers in a Veterans Day parade. The wind was nasty, and Peter Kostis of CBS, doing a live standup, looked like one of those Weather Channel storm-chasers, standing at the edge of the Gulf when hurricane season comes through the Florida panhandle.
The wife of a Florida Panhandle sheriff, a deputy and two suspects died in an exchange of gunfire outside the sheriff's house Tuesday evening, an official with the state attorney's office said.
A powerful cold front headed for the Deep South on Thursday, bringing the lowest temperatures of the season to many parts of the United States.
Locals call this part of the Florida Panhandle "the Forgotten Coast," but spend a weekend in Apalachicola, and you'll never forget it. This unspoiled town of roughly 3,000 residents boasts adorable boutiques, cozy dining nooks and quirky oyster joints. It's the perfect place to hide away for a few days and blend in with the locals.
The death toll in Tennessee from severe weather rose to 12 on Saturday, as storms battered the Southeast from Mississippi to Georgia before dissipating over the Atlantic Ocean.
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The pain of $3 at the pump could end soon for many Americans, but the respite in gasoline prices may be modest -- and only temporary, energy experts said Wednesday.
New Orleans braced for a catastrophic blow from Hurricane Katrina overnight, as forecasters predicted the Category 5 storm could drive a wall of water over the city's levees.
Hurricane Katrina was packing winds of up to 145 mph early Sunday as it approached the U.S. Gulf Coast, the National Hurricane Center said early Sunday.
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Hurricane Katrina will make a "big shift" to the west on its way across the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to reach dangerous Category 4 intensity before making landfall Monday afternoon in Mississippi or Louisiana, the National Hurricane Center said Friday.
Hurricane Dennis weakened to a tropical storm Sunday night after sweeping ashore with winds up to 120 mph, causing power outages and flooding in the Florida Panhandle and lower Alabama.
Hurricane Dennis, which has strengthened to a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 135 mph, brushed by Key West, Florida, on its way to a predicted direct hit on the U.S. Gulf coast.
A 16-year-old boy was bitten by a shark Monday in the Gulf of Mexico, two days after a shark killed a 14-year-old girl off the Florida Panhandle, authorities said.
On the eve the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, forecasters at Colorado State University predicted it would be "very active" with 15 named tropical storms and eight hurricanes.
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Santana Sullivan and her fiancé, Chris Ammons, picked through piles of debris that used to be their mobile home in the Florida Panhandle's rural Calhoun County.
After wreaking havoc on the Alabama and Florida coasts, the remnants of Hurricane Ivan punished the Southeastern United States on Friday, knocking out power to more than a million customers and flooding parts of Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina.
With Hurricane Ivan still a couple of days from the U.S. Gulf Coast, the first estimate of insured U.S. losses says this one has the potential to be the most expensive show of an already damaging storm season.
Residents along the Gulf of Mexico began evacuating Tuesday ahead of Hurricane Ivan, a Category 4 storm projected to make landfall somewhere between the Florida Panhandle and Louisiana on Thursday morning.
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As the remnants of Tropical Storm Frances moved from the Florida Panhandle into south Georgia Monday night, Floridians began the task of cleaning up behind its trail of destruction.
U.S. hurricane forecasters Monday predicted a busy 2004 Atlantic hurricane season based on a trend of above-normal activity during seven of the last nine seasons.