New Year's Lights Lead To New Life For Cuban Family
The group of 21 that arrived from the communist island just after midnight claim to be the first Cuban migrants to make it to the U.S. in 2017.
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The group of 21 that arrived from the communist island just after midnight claim to be the first Cuban migrants to make it to the U.S. in 2017.
Another big night of fun took place at the southernmost point of the United States.
Celebrating canines kicked off New Year's Eve festivities in Key West Saturday afternoon, as nearly 200 "wiener dogs" promenaded through the island city's picturesque downtown in the annual Key West Dachshund Walk.
For those still making plans to ring in the new year, South Florida has various offerings.
The new year is just days away. So where will you be to bring it in?
Sand sculpting pros from the U.S., Singapore and Canada wowed crowds with intricate, thought-provoking creations at the third annual International Sand Art Competition.
Actor, director and producer Burt Reynolds received the Golden Key Career Achievement Award from the Key West Film Festival Thursday night.
Fantasy Fest's 10 days of costuming and masking revelry ended Sunday in Key West, after a flamboyant Saturday night parade that featured satirical depictions of U.S. presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
Presidential politics took center stage at Key West's Fantasy Fest Headdress Ball - just one of more than 40 events being held during the 10-day festival.
Four-footed "party animals," including those spoofing American presidential candidates, pranced across an oceanfront stage at the Fantasy Fest Pet Masquerade in Key West.
A woman who lived on an island in Key West Harbor has gone missing.
U.S. Coast Guard crews have found four missing boaters who never returned from a snorkeling trip near Key West.
A man actually named Hemingway has won the annual Ernest "Papa" Hemingway Look-Alike Contest, a highlight of the subtropical island's annual Hemingway Days festival that ends Sunday.
Scores of Ernest Hemingway look-alikes took to the streets in Key West Saturday for the "Running of the Bulls," a wacky (and much safer) take-off on the run held each year in Pamplona, Spain.
More than 135 white-bearded men who look uncannily like Ernest Hemingway have converged on Key West for the annual "Papa" Hemingway Look-Alike Contest.
It's been a busy 24 hours for Monroe County Fire Rescue as they helped 50 Cuban migrants who arrived in two groups on Sugarloaf Key.
New Yorkers might stage a famous hot dog eating contest each July 4, but a far sweeter treat was in the "limelight" in Key West during the holiday's "Mile High Key Lime Pie Eatin' Contest."
Scientists and volunteers planted 200 live coral fragments Monday in the waters off Key West's Fort Zachary Taylor State Park, launching an effort to restore depleted reef tracts and create an educational public snorkel park.
"The Donald" and "Hillary" battled for supremacy in the Schooner Wharf Minimal Regatta in Key West.
A Key West woman who listed herself online as a wedding planner is accused of defrauding two couples who paid her to plan their weddings.
The trial for a man arrested after he allegedly planned to detonate a backpack bomb on a beach in Key West is set to start in July.
Crews worked to free a woman stuck in a giant tree in Key West Monday.
The five-day Key West Songwriters Festival wrapped Sunday night. More than 200 performing songwriters staged more than 50 shows in the island city.
A jury found Miami-Dade Commissioner Jose "Pepe" Diaz not guilty in his DUI trial Wednesday.
Miami-Dade Commissioner Jose 'Pepe' Diaz sat in the defendant's chair as prosecutors laid out their DUI case against him.
May marks the beginning of alligator mating season in Florida, and that means that the reptiles are way more active.
An immigration attorney said this case reflects the limits facing immigrants with serious criminal convictions.
South Florida rapper Kodak Black faces a felony charge of trafficking MDMA, according to court documents.
The storms collapsed hundreds of homes, downed trees and knocked out power lines in multiple counties, officials said.
Most of South Florida will be under a major risk of heat-related illnesses this weekend.
May marks the beginning of alligator mating season in Florida, and that means that the reptiles are way more active.
An immigration attorney said this case reflects the limits facing immigrants with serious criminal convictions.
South Florida rapper Kodak Black faces a felony charge of trafficking MDMA, according to court documents.
The storms collapsed hundreds of homes, downed trees and knocked out power lines in multiple counties, officials said.
Most of South Florida will be under a major risk of heat-related illnesses this weekend.
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 acting attorney general is touting the administration's stepped-up denaturalization efforts.
Since his second term started, President Trump has introduced a flurry of initiatives aimed at taming the excesses of the pharmaceutical industry.
Congressional Democrats are investigating clemency recipients who may have obtained favorable treatment from Trump or his advisers "through intermediaries, financial contributions, or other forms of influence."
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has now left the intensive care unit, his spokesperson said, after being hospitalized with pneumonia.
A former cellmate has previously claimed that the note was written by Epstein after a failed suicide attempt less than a month before his death.
In an interview on Facing South Florida, Wasserman Schultz said the Governor's efforts to redraw the maps will almost certainly violate the Fair Districts constitutional amendment voters in Florida passed in 2010.
Several commissioners have raised questions about how the center would be funded in future years.
The center – which was promised to voters back in 2004 – would take mentally ill individuals out of the jail and move them into a place where they can receive comprehensive treatment and support.
Luna said she expects Florida Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick to be the next member who either resigns or gets expelled.
Uthmeier was asked several times during a press conference in Miami this week if he had formally requested the judge overseeing the grand jury to keep the findings secret.
Three passengers have been evacuated from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak, as related cases are confirmed in Switzerland and South Africa.
The FDA announced its first authorization of fruit-flavored electronic cigarettes intended for adult smokers, a major policy shift after months of appeals to President Trump from the vaping industry.
Seventy-three percent of Americans say delays and denials of medical treatment by healthcare insurers are a major problem. Now, a company called Sheer Health says they will fight insurance battles on behalf of their clients.
An unlicensed cosmetologist from Florida has been found guilty in a California court for providing an injection that killed a model who was known as a Kim Kardashian lookalike, prosecutors said.
Food containing norovirus may smell and taste normal but still cause serious illness if consumed, FDA warns.
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.
A trial in the lawsuit between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni was set to begin later in May.
The performance followed similar shows by Madonna in 2024 and Lady Gaga last year on one of the world's most iconic waterfronts.
Attending this year's Kentucky Derby meant more for thoroughbred expert Mark Toothaker, who suffered a seizure from laughing at a whiffed NFL field goal attempt that led to a lifesaving diagnosis.
David Allan Coe also had hits with "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" and "The Ride" among others.
Jake was at the funeral for one of his closest friends when he learned of his parents' deaths, he said.