An effort to impose stricter penalties on reckless boaters, spurred by a 2022 crash in the Florida Keys that resulted in the death of a 17-year-old girl, continued moving forward Wednesday in the ...

Hunter Geisel is a digital producer at CBS Miami. Hunter has previously produced digital content for local and national outlets, covering several topics from breaking news and current events to ...

Smoke rises from a burning boat behind a Pimlico Lane house in Key Largo Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Firefighters extinguished a flaming boat behind a Florida Keys home ...

A charter boat captain accused of crashing his boat while he was intoxicated in the Florida Keys last summer was arrested on Tuesday, officials said. Laurence Lee Lewis Jr., 42, is facing several ...

A charred boat is parked on a trailer in front of a house in the Middle Florida Keys city of Marathon Wednesday morning, Sept. 3, 2025. Monroe County Sheriff’s Office City of Marathon firefighters and ...

Months after a woman was killed in a boat crash in the Florida Keys, the operator who was allegedly drunk while operating the vessel has been arrested, authorities said. Guy Russell Erdman, 61, of ...

Florida Keys deputies arrested a charter fishing captain and his mate on charges they used their boat to try to capsize a father and son on a kayak. The man and his teenage son, who the Monroe County ...

Hialeah woman killed in a Florida Keys boat crash. Miami Beach captain Reinaldo Aquit faces charges for careless driving and vessel homicide. Months after a Hialeah woman was killed when a speedboat ...

Two people were hospitalized after their boat struck a coral reef off the Florida Keys Saturday, May 17, 2025, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Two people were ...

FLORIDA KEYS (CBS12) — A Texas man has been accused of stealing a rental boat from the Florida Keys and taking it to Cuba. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said that Floyd Devasier rented a ...

KEY WEST, Florida (WFOR) — The charter captain piloting the boat that crashed into a Florida Keys bridge back in July and injured seven people, including a child, was arrested this week on drunk ...