Shark Attacks On The Rise
Shark attacks in Florida and North Carolina have made headlines in the last two weeks or so and some are wondering if it will be safe to go to the beach this summer.
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Shark attacks in Florida and North Carolina have made headlines in the last two weeks or so and some are wondering if it will be safe to go to the beach this summer.
Walking slowly and steadily, Lacy Webb Martin is ready to tell the story of her vacation—which quite quickly turned into a tale of survival.
A man was released from the hospital Monday after he was treated for a shark bite over the weekend.
Just before his ninth birthday, a central Florida boy—while in the water with his mother—was bit by a shark.
Shark experts in Fort Lauderdale have issued a B.O.L.O., or Be On The Lookout, for a missing mako shark.
While the state of Florida is the well-known shark-bite capital of the world, it's not necessarily the scariest place to be attacked by a shark.
An alligator showed up at Hobie Beach off the Rickenbacker Causeway.
Headed for the Keys this weekend? May want to think before jumping into the ocean as Katharine, a 14-foot great white shark, is back—and is swimming in the waters just off Islamorada.
The Coast Guard has called-off the search Wednesday for a man who went missing during a shark diving venture in the Bahamas Sunday.
Crews are searching for a 63-year-old man who never resurfaced after diving into the waters of the Bahamas during a commercial shark diving venture.
Wildlife officials are trying to catch a bull shark in Florida, but not from the ocean, from a land-locked pond located in a popular park.
A South Florida woman is out of surgery and recuperating Monday after her leg was bit by a shark in Fort Lauderdale Sunday afternoon.
A wayward great white shark named "Betsy" has turned up off the Florida coast. Ocearch reports that "Betsy," was found swimming in the Gulf of Mexico about 63 miles off Boca Grande.
It's a beautiful Sunday afternoon just off Deerfield Beach. Adam Fisk, an avid fisherman, was fishing off his kayak when all the sudden he gets the catch of a lifetime.
A South Florida man had a run in with a shark off Delray Beach and lived to talk about it.
Four employees of a two Palm Beach dive boat operations have been charged with illegally feeding sharks in state waters - a practice which has been banned for a dozen years.
Sea Breeze High School football star Raushod Floyd has been hit plenty of times on the football field, but nothing compares to the blow he took while swimming over the weekend.
Researchers at Florida State University made quite the unusual catch in the Gulf of Mexico recently.
A man is recovering from getting attacked by a shark near Scotland Cay in the Bahamas.
A South Florida teen is recovering after he was bitten by a shark over the weekend.
Sections of Deerfield Beach are closed to swimmers as dozens and dozens of sharks make their annual migration north just off shore.
From a plane above you can see them. The massive amounts of black dots are presumably black tip sharks. The congregations are all along Palm Beach's shoreline and slowly thins out as you move towards Miami-Dade County.
A Jackson Memorial Hospital trauma surgeon who treated a man bitten in the calf by something in the ocean off Miami Beach last weekend still doesn't know exactly what caused the injury.
A South Beach man is recovering from a shark attack bite while swimming near a South Beach hotel.
A fisherman in the Florida Keys got quite a scare after catching a nurse shark which bit him in the calf, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.
South Florida won't see a washout, but you're going to want to make some plans indoors when thunderstorms start to fire up.
The National Hurricane Center posted a hurricane warning for western Hawaii's Kauai County as Hurricane Lowell moved toward the area as a Category 3 storm.
The identity of the victim has not yet been released.
Most major retail stores and grocery chains will remain open on Labor Day, while banks will close.
A top Iranian official says Tehran will impose an "exclusion zone" outside the Strait of Hormuz as it seeks to tighten its chokehold on tanker traffic.
The FAA is investigating.
South Florida won't see a washout, but you're going to want to make some plans indoors when thunderstorms start to fire up.
The National Hurricane Center posted a hurricane warning for western Hawaii's Kauai County as Hurricane Lowell moved toward the area as a Category 3 storm.
The identity of the victim has not yet been released.
Most major retail stores and grocery chains will remain open on Labor Day, while banks will close.
Former Cuban President Raúl Castro has reappeared in public at a military event celebrating an army branch's anniversary.
Diario Las Américas, a Miami-based Spanish-language newspaper, reported Tuesday that Castro is seriously ill, citing a confidential source in Cuba close to his inner circle.
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Degnis Bofill, who won a 2022 Latin Grammy, is being held at the Krome Detention Center in Miami-Dade County while his asylum case is pending.
Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife asked a judge to toss their drug trafficking indictment on the grounds that they have immunity as the leader and first lady of a foreign country.
The deal involves developing 17 strategic oil fields in Venezuela, an undertaking that experts said could take years.
President Trump announced a deal to grant the U.S. control of more than 60 billion barrels of proven Venezuelan oil reserves.
Carlos Tellez Sanchez had worked at a car dealership in Dallas during the day and drove for Uber Eats at night to support his family.
Courtney Walter said her husband, Jorge Luis Eliecer Ruiz, was stopped by immigration agents on Aug. 3 in Coconut Creek.
Scott Singer, the former mayor of Boca Raton, discusses winning his primary and what's next in the race.
Former prosecutors question why a grand jury found $10 million misappropriated but charged no one.
The report found taxpayer money was routed through nonprofits and into political accounts, while Attorney General James Uthmeier faces fresh criticism over his role in the transfer.
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Gilbert is running for the seat that Frederica Wilson is retiring from.
Employer health benefit costs are projected to see the steepest increase next year since 2003. That could mean higher deductions and out-of-pocket costs for workers.
Moderna and Merck announced study results that reflect a "landmark moment" in treatment for one of the deadliest forms of skin cancer.
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Despite a rash of foodborne illnesses in recent months, one expert said the nation's food supply is "remarkably safe." Here's what to know.
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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.
While performing in St. Louis on Saturday night, Lionel Richie appeared at one point to lean on a piano for support, according to video from the show.
The international airport in Nashville, Tennessee, would be renamed for Dolly Parton under a proposal by Tennessee's governor.
Stella Parton said her sister Dolly told her "that if there was no hope for her, she would still allow her medical team to try experimental drugs in the hope of helping others in the future."
Tim Curry was known for his iconic performances in cult classics like "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and the original screen adaptation of Stephen King's "It."
President Trump said that he would be "lowering the American flag" throughout the nation for one week in Dolly Parton's honor.