California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger urged US states today to pressure Washington to do more to prevent climate change, discounting the argument that protecting the environment hurts the economy.

Florida governor Charlie Crist said he was seriously thinking about pardoning dead rock star Jim Morrison for the singer’s 1970 indecent exposure and profanity conviction stemming from a Miami concert the year before.

FLORIDA governor, Charlie Crist, is being asked to pardon the late Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors, 38 years after the rock star was convicted of exposing himself during a Miami concert.

Disaster crews with dogs went from one pile of debris to another in a search of bodies after powerful storms swept through Florida.