Miami (Florida), Nov. 12: Republican governors have gathered here to strategise a way back to the White House and to securing a majority in the Congress again.

Among the governors attending the three-day moot are Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour and Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida - Celebrating Christmas in Florida is tricky. Americans' love of kitsch calls for elaborate decorations, red-and-green garlands and blinking Santa Clauses with reindeer teams on front lawns.

Special radio stations play blizzards of carols starting around Advent: Gospel choirs, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, etc., croon tunes like "Let It Snow!"

Record turnouts and hours-long waits at most of Florida’s 267 early voting sites, led the state’s Governor Charlie Crist to issue an executive order to extend early voting hours statewide to 12 hours a day, declaring that a “state of emergency” exists.

Crist invoked the state’s Elections Emergency Act during his announcement Tuesday afternoon, saying: “I have a responsibility to the voters of our state to ensure that the maximum number of citizens can participate in the electoral process, and that every person can exercise the right to vote.”

Orlando, Fla, Oct 27 : Barack Obama’s campaign has pulled the plug on a Florida news station’s access to the presidential candidate after an anchorwoman angered Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden with uncomfortable questions during a satellite interview.

WFTV-Channel 9 anchorwoman Barbara West quizzed Biden about Obama’s intention to “spread the wealth,” referring to the Democratic White House contender’s comments to “Joe the Plumber.”

Miami, Florida - Hurricane Omar continued its course through the western Caribbean Thursday, after sweeping through the northern Leeward Islands late Wednesday.

The storm, a category-three, with maximum sustained winds of 205 kilometres per hour, is moving in a north-easterly direction, the National Hurricane Centre (NHC) in Miami, Florida said, in its hurricane public advisory.

Tropical storm warnings for the US Virgin Islands, Vieques, Culebra, and the British Virgin Islands were discontinued as the storm moved away.

Miami, Florida - Hurricane Omar swept across the northern Leeward Islands after strengthening to a category 3 storm in the Caribbean with maximum sustained winds of 195 kilometres per hour and higher gusts, the National Hurricane Center in the United States said.

It gained in intensity on the five-step Saffir-Simpson Scale before hitting the Antilles and beginning its march late Wednesday across the Leeward Islands.