The Latest Breaking News from Florida Keys

MIAMI — A baby from Cuba aboard a migrant boat stopped by the U.S. Coast Guard off the Florida Keys Friday night was taken to a Monroe County hospital to be treated for dehydration.

As what‘s become Tropical Storm Alex menaced South Florida at the end of last week, the Coast Guard stopped nearly 50 people from Cuba off the Florida Keys trying to migrate to the United States in separate incidents.

MIAMI — The U.S. Coast Guard sent 40 people back to Cuba on Thursday after stopping them off the Florida Keys earlier this week.

MIAMI — A boat driver who police say cut a parasail cable on Memorial Day, dragging three people across the water before they crashed into a Florida Keys bridge, could face criminal charges, according to the state agency that enforces laws on the water.

A sudden storm prompted a boat captain to cut loose their parasail, which then dragged them across the ocean and slammed them into a bridge in the Florida Keys, authorities said.

MIAMI — The U.S. Coast Guard returned 223 U.S.-bound migrants back to Haiti and Cuba on Tuesday after detaining eight migrant boats at sea during the Memorial Day weekend.

MIAMI — A parasailing cable tethering a young mother and two children to a boat was intentionally cut by the vessel’s captain on Memorial Day, plunging them into the water and dragging them across the surface before they hit a Florida Keys bridge, according to police investigating the case.

MIAMI — A parasailing cable tethering a young mother and two children to a boat snapped on Memorial Day, plunging them into the water and dragging them at least a mile before they hit a Florida Keys bridge, according to the captain who rescued them.

The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted 55 people from Cuba at sea off the Florida Keys over a five-day period last week.

Biologists conducting an necropsy on a sperm whale that beached itself in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico in the Florida Keys said they found man-made materials in the mammal’s stomach that likely contributed to its death.

Two sperm whales died within seven days of each other in the Florida Keys, according to state and federal officials.