Sunday morning rains flooded North Miami Beach to such an extent that the city’s police department released a list of areas and streets that were flooded with the “find alternate routes” advice. Here’s the list: ▪ U.S. 1 aka Biscayne Bouelvard from Northeast 156th Street to 149th Street. ▪ West Dixie Highway from Northeast 167th […]
The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search Thursday night for a man last seen leaving Key Biscayne days earlier on his paddleboard to go spearfishing. Luciano Mercenari, 29, departed from his family’s home in Key Biscayne around 5:15 p.m. Monday and was reported overdue to the Coast Guard about about four hours later, according to […]
A boater found the paddleboard and some gear offshore between Miami-Dade County and Fort Lauderdale that belongs to a man last seen leaving Key Biscayne Monday evening to go spearfishing, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The boater found the items in the ocean about 7 to 10 nautical miles from shore, said Petty Officer […]
Is it done yet? A state construction project that began in April shut down portions of the Rickenbacker Causeway — causing chaos and enraging thousands of motorist, some of whom were stranded for as long as five hours. The closures caused traffic mayhem and public outrage, as a deluge of Key Biscayne residents and those […]
The U.S. Coast Guard and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue are searching for a man last seen Monday evening leaving Key Biscayne on a paddleboard to go spearfishing. The 29-year-old man, identified by the Coast Guard only by his first name, Luciano, embarked on his aqua and orange-colored paddleboard around 5:15 p.m. Monday in Pines Canal, the […]
A boat fire at a Key Biscayne marina left two people injured Sunday afternoon, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue. Firefighters, paramedics, police officers and state law enforcement responded to the well-known Crandon Park Marina at 4000 Crandon Boulevard, near Virginia Key. “We are still unsure about the cause of the fire,” says Alarm Office Chief […]
If you’re in some spots in Biscayne Bay during the weekend, you might be greeted with an unpleasant sight: dead fish floating on the surface. That’s the unfortunate aftermath of the relentless rain that South Florida experienced last week — and a reminder of much larger fish kills that have plagued Biscayne Bay in the […]
After an internal investigation, the Key Biscayne Police Department issued a one-day unpaid suspension to a detective who was caught on his own cellphone recording calling the mother of an alleged sexual abuse victim a “scumbag,” disparaging another alleged victim and talking to his brother about an open case, according to a statement released Thursday […]
Security camera footage shows the man who police say was operating the boat that hit and killed Ransom Everglades freshman Ella Riley Adler in Biscayne Bay last week calmly leaving and then arriving back at the dock behind his Coral Gables home on that afternoon. The footage from the camera, which was pointed at the […]
The man that police officers say was operating the boat that struck and killed a 15-year-old girl near Key Biscayne is the owner of company with clients like Baptist Hospital, the Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach school boards and Miami International Airport, records show. For decades, 78-year-old Carlos Guillermo Alonso has run Technical Systems & […]
Investigators have updated their description of the hit-and-run boat that ran over a 15-year-old girl Saturday who was water skiing near Key Biscayne’s Nixon Beach. It’s a center console boat with a light blue hull, multiple white outboard engines and may have blue or dark blue bottom paint, according to statement released Monday afternoon by […]
Hundreds of mourners on Monday morning honored the life of the 15-year-old girl killed in a boat crash off Key Biscayne — at the temple where she grew up, laughed, played and made her first friends. The pews inside Temple Beth Sholom in Miami Beach were packed with people who had lined up to pay […]