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2 missing after migrant boat with 21 aboard capsizes off the Florida Keys

MIAMI — U.S. Coast Guard crews launched a search for two missing people the agency says were among a group of 21 whose migrant boat capsized Wednesday off the Florida Keys.

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A new Seven Mile Bridge is in the works for the Florida Keys. What the state has planned

MIAMI — The Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys was considered an engineering marvel when it opened in 1982.

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Deputy dressed as Grinch gives onions to speeding drivers

Several motorists who were speeding through an elementary school zone on the Florida Keys Overseas Highway received an odorous onion as a reminder to slow down from a county sheriff’s deputy dressed as the Grinch

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‘Multiple migrant landings’: Feds report big jump in people coming to Florida from Cuba

MIAMI — Border Patrol agents in the Florida Keys are responding to almost nonstop migrant landings this week that continued through Tuesday morning.

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Three manatees had major problems in the Florida Keys. They just returned after a change.

Three manatees who were being treated for medical issues and injuries in Orlando were released in the Florida Keys in late November.

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What happens to people who die at sea trying to migrate? It falls to the Florida Keys

MIAMI — When people from Haiti and Cuba take to the sea in desperation to reach U.S. shores, they often end up in the Florida Keys, arriving on overloaded or homemade vessels.

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More than 50 people from Cuba land in Florida Keys as Coast Guard stops others at sea

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More than 50 people from Cuba land in Florida Keys as Coast Guard stops others at sea

MIAMI — U.S. Border Patrol and Coast Guard crews were kept busy on Thanksgiving intercepting people from Cuba attempting to enter the country through the Florida Keys.

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Group of Cubans land in Key Colony Beach on a boat. Migrant numbers soaring at record clip

MIAMI — The steady arrival of migrants continued in the Florida Keys on Wednesday with a group of 19 people from Cuba in Key Colony Beach, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.

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Cuban migrants arrive in Miami Beach near Deauville hotel, and more in the Florida Keys

MIAMI — Twelve Cuban migrants arrived in a homemade boat on the sands of a former Miami Beach hotel Thursday night, according to the Border Patrol.

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More than 100 Cuban migrants in several groups have arrived in Florida Keys in recent days

MIAMI — Since Sunday, more than 100 Cuban migrants have arrived in the Florida Keys, with another landing happening Tuesday morning, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.

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More than 40 Cuban migrants land in South Florida

MIAMI — More than 40 migrants from Cuba arrived in the Florida Keys and Key Biscayne aboard three separate boats Friday, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.

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Cuban migrant found clinging to the Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys

MIAMI — The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a Cuban migrant found clinging to a support column of the Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys Wednesday morning, the agency confirmed.

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Mahi mahi are dwindling and Keys charter boat captains agree why. ‘This is disgraceful.’

Jon Reynolds, a Florida Keys charter boat fishing captain, opened up a plastic trash bag Thursday night during a meeting with federal regulators and pulled out a huge ball of thick monofilament line that’s used to target en masse mahi mahi, also commonly known as dolphinfish.

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US Coast Guard searches for 23 migrants missing near Florida Keys amid Hurricane Ian

MIAMI — The U.S. Coast Guard launched a search Wednesday for 23 people who, among a group of Cuban migrants, attempted to cross the Florida Straits as Hurricane Ian made its way past the Florida Keys.

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Tropical Storm Ian continues to grow in approach to Cuba; watch issued for Keys as Florida braces for major hurricane

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Tropical Storm Ian continued to intensify as it approached Cuba late Sunday while a tropical storm watch went into effect for the lower Keys

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11 injured when boat crashes into channel marker before capsizing off the Florida Keys

MIAMI — Four people were airlifted as trauma alert patients after a Sunday evening boat crash in the Upper Florida Keys, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said.

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Florida Keys migrant landings continue. Up to 150 Cubans arrived since Wednesday

MIAMI — Border Patrol agents assigned to the Florida Keys have taken into custody up to 150 people from Cuba since last Wednesday as the migrant exodus from the island nation to the archipelago is on track to reach a seven-year high.

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Florida Keys deputies shoot and kill off-duty federal air marshal they say pointed rifle at them

MIAMI — Florida Keys deputies Wednesday morning shot and killed an off-duty federal law enforcement officer who they said pointed a semi-automatic rifle at them.

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Another large group of Haitian migrants arrives off the Keys for second time in three days

MIAMI — A migrant sailboat overloaded with people arrived in the shallow waters Monday evening off the Middle Florida Keys, federal officials said.

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Boat with more than 100 migrants arrives offshore of the Florida Keys

MIAMI — A group of between 100 and 200 Haitian migrants arrived offshore of the Florida Keys Saturday afternoon, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

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2 dead as search continues for 5 missing after boat capsizes near Sugarloaf Key, US Coast Guard says

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — U.S. Coast Guard crews searched the waters off the lower Florida Keys through Friday night for five people who are missing after their boat capsized with 15 people aboard and will continue searching Saturday.

Miami Herald

2 dead in water off Florida Keys, and Coast Guard searching for more people

MIAMI — The U.S. Coast Guard said the bodies of two people have been recovered from the ocean water off the Florida Keys on Friday afternoon.

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Border Patrol responds to more than 6 separate landings in the Keys Thursday

MIAMI — The U.S. Border Patrol said it responded to more than six migrant landings in the Florida Keys Thursday.

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Did a police boat fatally strike a snorkeler in the Florida Keys? Inquiry launched to find out

MIAMI — Investigators have launched an inquiry into whether a Florida fish and wildlife police boat struck and killed a snorkeler in the Florida Keys last week.

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