News for Florida
Coast Guard Suspends Search For Migrants Off Florida
Authorities have found a total of five bodies, leaving 24 people still missing less than a week after the vessel capsized on its way to Florida from Bimini in the Bahamas.
Coast Guard calls off Florida search for 'human smuggling' boat passengers; more than 30 deaths feared
The Coast Guard said Thursday that it was calling off a search off Florida's Atlantic coast for dozens of boat passengers who were still missing after the vessel capsized Saturday in what authorities ...
Florida GOP aims to curtail school lessons on sex, gender
Florida Republicans want to forbid discussions of sexual orientation or gender identity in schools with a bill that activists say endangers children and echoes a previous wave of laws that sought to ...
Coast Guard to suspend migrant search off Florida coast
Authorities have now found a total of five bodies, leaving 34 missing five days after the vessel capsized on the way to Florida from Bimini, a chain of islands in the Bahamas about 55 miles east ...
Florida sheriff fires deputy union head after COVID-19 fight
A Florida sheriff fired the president of his department's deputies union Thursday, capping a three-year battle that escalated when the union chief accused the sheriff of not providing deputies with ...
Student activists disrupt Florida 15-week abortion ban hearing
Activists with Students for a Democratic Society disrupted a Florida House committee meeting Thursday while lawmakers took up a controversial bill banning abortions after 15 weeks. After about half an ...
Four more bodies found off Florida coast from capsized boat
Discovery brings total to five, but search for survivors will be suspended if new discoveries are not made, says US coast guard ...
Search for survivors in human smuggling boat tragedy off Florida coast to be suspended
A Coast Guard official said 34 people on the doomed vessel that capsized in the Straits of Florida are unaccounted for.
Coast Guard calls off search for survivors of capsized boat off the coast of Florida
The Coast Guard is calling off its search for survivors after a boat capsized off the coast of Florida, leaving at least five dead and 34 still missing. NBC News’ Blayne Alexander reports on how the ...
Coast Guard finds 4 more migrant bodies off Florida coast
The Coast Guard says it has found four more bodies in its search for dozens of migrants lost at sea off Florida, for a total of five bodies. The maritime security agency said Thursday that it also ...
Coast Guard to end search for migrants reported missing off Florida after 4 more are found dead
Officials plan to halt “actively searching” for survivors at sunset unless they receive any new information, concluding there are probably no other survivors.
Key moments in the fatal journey of 40 migrants whose boat capsized off of Florida coast
A look at some of the key events in the fatal journey a group of migrants took from Bimini to America, before their boat capsized near Florida.
