A girl has died after a boat hit her and sped away while she was water skiing near Key Biscayne on Saturday afternoon, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Law enforcement agencies are asking for the public’s help to find the boat that hit the girl, whose name and age have not […]
Two men died in a Miami-Dade hospital after the boat they were on collided with a yacht in Biscayne Bay, according to Florida Fish and Wildlife officials. The crash happened around 6:45 p.m. Sunday off waters near Homestead, Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue said. The cause of the accident is unclear. The collision was between a […]
Holding her 10-month-old baby, Tamara Tubic recounted how she and her family — including her 2-year-old — made the roughly 25 minute drive from Edgewater to spend Sunday in Key Biscayne. Their trip was going according to plan, until it was time to leave, and Tubic noticed that traffic was unusually heavy. Since her astute […]
Miami-Dade broke the rules in a 2022 vote to expand the county’s Urban Development Boundary for an industrial project near Homestead, a Tallahassee judge ruled on Friday, backing a state finding of a flawed approval process. The administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis contends Miami-Dade granted too many delays in allowing developer Aligned Real Estate Holdings […]
Already facing charges that say he received child pornography, the son of a prominent Key Biscayne family has been hit with new federal court charges that say he made child pornography. William McCaughan, Jr. now faces two counts of coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity and two counts of production […]
Former Key Biscayne Mayor Mike Davey on Thursday launched a bid for the Democratic nomination to take on Republican U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar in a race that Democrats see as a key opportunity to gain ground in Florida’s GOP-dominated congressional delegation. Davey’s announcement sets him up for a primary matchup against Miami-Dade School Board […]
White flowers, candles and a painting adorned a light pole in memory of a woman who was killed while crossing a busy street near downtown Miami and pushing her 8-month-old boy in a stroller. Jaklin Sabag, 33, died Wednesday after she was pinned under a dump truck on Biscayne Boulevard near Northeast 22nd Street, in […]
Key Biscayne residents showed up in force at Tuesday night’s council meeting, reacting to allegations against a local gymnastics coach that he sexually abused girls, including those who were his students. The allegations, dating back a decade and reported to police at the time, were detailed recently in a Miami Herald investigation. The residents demanded […]
We recently reported on a gymnastics coach in Key Biscayne, Oscar Olea, who has been accused of sexually assaulting students going back a decade and had been under investigation recently by Key Biscayne police. He’s never been charged. The allegations against Olea included a recently closed investigation over purported inappropriate touching and language toward students […]