Florida Keys Crime Rate Posts Double Digit Drop
Crime in the Florida Keys took a double-digit dip last year compared to a year earlier.
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Crime in the Florida Keys took a double-digit dip last year compared to a year earlier.
Key West has taken the first step toward banning the sale of sunscreens that contain ingredients that some consider harmful to coral reefs.
New Year's Eve revelers tired of cold-weather festivities, like the traditional "ball drop" in New York's Times Square, flocked to balmy Key West for six offbeat "ball drop" takeoffs.
America's southernmost island "went to the dogs" New Year's Eve, when hundreds of short-legged, long-bodied canines and their people staged the annual Key West Dachshund Walk.
A dachshund parade and six unusual "drops" are to highlight New Year's Eve celebrations in Key West.
Ringing in a new year isn't a celebration exclusive to one part of the country.
A Florida couple who stole a 40-foot catamaran sailboat in the Keys and sailed to Cuba for their honeymoon face up to five years in prison each when they are sentenced next month.
Fun in the sun met fun in the sand this weekend in the Florida Keys.
A drunken man reportedly bit off another man's fingertip at a campsite in Big Pine Key.
Coast Guard officials have rescued nearly 100 Haitian migrants from a dangerously overloaded freighter.
Fantasy Fest is one of the biggest events of the year in Key West.
Contestants in huge, lavish masks and headdresses -- some towering far higher than their wearers -- made "headlines" at Key West's Headdress Ball.
Dressed-up dogs, costumed cats and other pets unleashed their "animal magnetism" on an open-air stage at the Fantasy Fest Pet Masquerade in Key West.
More than 6,500 eerily costumed zombies, known as "the walking dead," abandoned pedestrian power for bicycles Sunday, during Key West's offbeat annual Zombie Bike Ride.
Key West's wacky and sometimes-decadent Fantasy Fest kicks off Friday with a coronation ball to crown the 10-day festival's king and queen.
Failure to stop at a stop sign landed a Miami man in jail in Key West for drug possession.
Rare video of newly hatched loggerhead sea turtles emerging from their nest in Key West and making a beeline for the water.
Culinary experts in the Florida Keys are irate about a cookbook author's claim that Key lime pie was not invented in the island chain.
Two men have been sentenced for stealing a Key West museum's 17th-century gold bar.
A Florida man had a "conversation" with God while on stage during a Florida mayoral debate.
After nine previous tries, the husband of celebrity chef Paula Deen has won the annual Ernest Hemingway Look-Alike Contest held in Key West, the city where the writer lived and wrote during the 1930s.
Almost 150 bearded, portly men are gathered in Key West to prove their resemblance to legendary author Ernest Hemingway, as they compete in the 38th annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest that began Thursday night.
Authorities are investigating the death of a 31-year-old man who had been diving off Key West.
How fast can you eat an entire Key lime pie without using your hands?
A Pompano Beach fire inspector has become the first woman to complete the 100-mile voyage from Cuba to the Florida Keys on a standup paddleboard.
Bryce Elder pitched one-hit ball over seven innings, Drake Baldwin drove in two runs and the Atlanta Braves won their season-high seventh in a row, beating the Miami Marlins 4-1.
The project focuses on collecting floating coral egg and sperm bundles, which are fertilized and grown into "baby corals" before being attached to existing reefs once they reach a specific size.
Cyclospora cases have been reported in at least 47 states total this year, and investigators have continued to probe how many could be linked to a common contaminated source.
At least 345 people — the majority in Colorado and Minnesota — have been sickened by a salmonella outbreak, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Both opponents and supporters of the amendment have mixed feelings about its language.
Bryce Elder pitched one-hit ball over seven innings, Drake Baldwin drove in two runs and the Atlanta Braves won their season-high seventh in a row, beating the Miami Marlins 4-1.
The project focuses on collecting floating coral egg and sperm bundles, which are fertilized and grown into "baby corals" before being attached to existing reefs once they reach a specific size.
Cyclospora cases have been reported in at least 47 states total this year, and investigators have continued to probe how many could be linked to a common contaminated source.
At least 345 people — the majority in Colorado and Minnesota — have been sickened by a salmonella outbreak, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Both opponents and supporters of the amendment have mixed feelings about its language.
In courtroom testimony, Shandelle Maycock recounted the harrowing night her daughter was abandoned in the Everglades, describing the horrors they endured.
A former prison guard trainee has been sentenced to death for the 2019 execution-style killings of five women inside a Florida bank.
Florida coach Billy Napier is getting a fourth season to try to get the Gators back to their winning ways.
A Florida man has filed a federal lawsuit against Jacksonville sheriff's officers who severely beat him last year after he ran from a traffic stop.
The Marion County Sheriff's deputy told authorities that he accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend while cleaning his gun.
The Senate confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz in a 51 to 44 vote.
President Trump told reporters that an announcement on the Strait of Hormuz could happen soon, following talks between Iran and Oman.
The White House has declassified information claiming the FBI probed whether President Trump acted as a Russian asset when he fired James Comey, a theory an administration official said wasn't backed up by evidence.
A senior State Department official said the visa would be reinstated immediately if Brazil grants diplomatic approval for President Trump's nominee for U.S. ambassador to Brazil, Daniel Perez.
Federal authorities arrested a man who appeared to be monitoring security-planning activities at Trump National Golf Club in LA County ahead of the president's Southern California visit.
Months after leaving TV news, Rodriguez is competing against former prosecutor Robin Peguero for the CD-27 nomination.
On Sunday, Collins spoke about the ruling on this week in South Florida and explained why he believes he is trailing the Republican frontrunner, Byron Donalds.
CBS Miami's Jim DeFede spoke to former Republican State Senator Jeff Brandes, president of the Florida Policy Project, who is behind one of those lawsuits.
As Florida attorney general, it was Moody and her office that approved the diversion of $10 million of taxpayer money to the Hope Florida Foundation
The sordid life of Fabian Basabe is one CBS Miami first began covering on this show three years ago.
Two Michigan residents who had "significant underlying health conditions" have died after contracting cyclosporiasis, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said.
Since May, more than 11,000 cases of illness caused by the parasite cyclospora have been reported in 41 states. This comes after the Trump administration drastically cut FDA and CDC staff, prompting one expert to call this summer's outbreaks "a national wake-up call."
The case accuses OpenAI of practicing medicine without a license and failing to safeguard users seeking health advice.
Taylor Farms said none of its branded salads or kits contain the iceberg lettuce associated with the outbreak.
A lettuce supplier to fast-food giant Taco Bell has been linked to a nationwide cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened thousands of people, the CDC said.
AARP is sounding the alarm because it is so easy to fall for these schemes, but there are simple things everyone can do to protect themselves.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
Florida insurance policyholders could be seeing some form of relief in their wallets thanks to market reforms made statewide, Gov. Ron DeSantis said.
The company said Tuesday that 85% of its retail products and "nearly all" of its school offerings are already made without "certified colors."
Less than two days after Delta Air Lines offered $30,000 to each passenger on board the flight that crashed and flipped in Toronto on Monday afternoon, the company is facing its first two lawsuits in the incident — and they likely won't be the last.
Ariana Grande had been due to star alongside her "Wicked" co-star Jonathan Bailey in a production of "Sunday in the Park with George" in 2027.
Vincent Pastore played Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on all six seasons of "The Sopranos," which aired from 1999 to 2007.
Four women say Hollywood star Jared Leto committed sexual crimes against them when they were teenagers, in interviews with the BBC.
Carly Simon, the singer known for 1970s hits like "You're So Vain," announced she has Parkinson's disease and also was treated for basal cell carcinoma.
Paramount Skydance on Friday said it would delay the deal until as late as June 2027.