A boater found 65 pounds of cocaine worth an estimated $1 million floating in the Florida Keys, the U.S. Border Patrol said. The packages, which had pictures of a bald eagle on the front, were found around noon Saturday when “mariners in a private vessel found a package containing approximately 21 individually wrapped kilograms of […]
HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — Memorial Day weekend is here, and officials want you to practice boater safety while out on the water. For many, this weekend marks the beginning of summer. The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources says temperatures warming up and the long holiday weekend, means more waterway traffic and crowded boat […]
AUSTIN (KXAN) — As temperatures rise in Austin, things are heating up on the lakes, as more and more people hit the water for the holiday weekend. “We are just getting ready for a really big weekend,” said Chris Dickens, who was putting his boat in on Lake Austin. “It is going to be really, […]
The man who Florida fish and wildlife police say was at the helm of a boat when it struck and killed a 15-year-old Ransom Everglades student Saturday while she was wake boarding with friends off Key Biscayne said he didn’t know that he hit anyone when he left the scene and went home. But, while […]
Florida’s fish and wildlife commission was searching for a boater who fled after having fatally struck a girl Saturday afternoon. The girl was waterskiing around 4:30 p.m. near Nixon Beach in Key Biscayne, which is in Miami-Dade County, when the boat struck her, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, or FWC, said in a […]
A man boating along Florida’s Gulf Coast died just feet from land, when he chased after a phone that fell overboard at the dock, according to investigators. The 69-year-old West Virginia resident is believed to have suffered “a medical episode” in the water, the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office said in a May 9 news release. […]
A search continues for a man who jumped from a boat into Lake Pleasant after a lost hat, Arizona sheriff’s officials told news outlets. The man, who was not wearing a life jacket, never resurfaced, Maricopa County sheriff’s officials told KDVR. He vanished around 2 p.m. Saturday, May 4, the sheriff’s office told AZ Family. […]
The United States Coast Guard announced the suspension of an active search for a missing boater on Wednesday night at 8:15 p.m. off the coast of North Carolina. PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Coast Guard: Missing man’s boat found off Wrightsville Beach; search resumes The boater, 47-year-old Jeffrey Kale from Clover, has been missing since Saturday night. The […]
SOUTHPORT, N.C. (WNCN) — The U.S. Coast Guard is continuing a search for a North Carolina boater who vanished at sea during a fishing trip aboard a 32-foot center-console boat on Saturday. Crews from Elizabeth City and Oak Island were checking areas Sunday between Blackjack and Steeples areas off the North Carolina coast, according to […]
The Miami federal courtroom was divided in half. On one side: About 50 people supporting a young couple killed in a boat crash. On the other side were another 50 people backing the man who caused their deaths. Toward the end of the emotionally charged hearing on Friday, Josbel Fernandez Echevarria stood up to say […]