The PEN America rights group says award-winning Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina has died from her injuries suffered after a Russian missile attack on a popular restaurant last week.

Florida officials are threatening to revoke the teaching license of a school superintendent after he criticized Gov. Ron DeSantis.

It's been a bear of a year for Ohio's Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, the nation’s second-largest zoological park.

The school superintendent in Florida’s capital city says masks will be required for students in prekindergarten through eighth grade, becoming the seventh district to defy Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ban on such COVID-19 mandates.

The superintendent of the school district in the capital of Florida says he's decided to require masks amid an increase in COVID-19 cases fueled by the delta variant.

ORLANDO, Fla. – After a relatively dry day across Central Florida, storm chances go up Sunday. Storm chances stay elevated Monday afternoon and evening. Tropical update:Hanna made landfall Saturday in Texas as a strong category one hurricane and continues to weaken over Mexico. Computer forecasts bring the tropical disturbance close to Puerto Rico late in the week. Early indications are that a tropical disturbance will curve out to sea over the weekend.

ORLANDO, Fla. – We've done it again this 2020 hurricane season and we will likely break another record before this week is over. Tropical Depression Eight could become Tropical Storm Hanna by the weekend bringing the potential for flooding to Texas. If Tropical Depression Eight does indeed strengthen into Tropical Storm Hanna, it would be the earliest eighth storm on record. Tracks and intensity of the 2005 hurricane season. Tropical development in the Central Atlantic, around where Gonzalo developed, prior to Aug. 1 is often a precursor to an active season.