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A Miami man who drove a powerboat at high speed into a rocky area off the coast of Bimini pleaded guilty Wednesday to involuntary manslaughter charges following the death of two passengers three years ago, according to the Department of Justice.

A coastal low forecast to develop north of the Bahamas by Thursday into Friday may try to take on some tropical characteristics as it brings gusty winds, rough seas and the possibility of coastal flooding from northeast Florida through the Carolinas by the weekend.

A fishing vessel will attempt to use the high tide to pull free a Danish-owned luxury cruise ship that ran aground in northwestern Greenland with 206 people on board.

Tropical Storm Idalia, which formed late morning Sunday, is forecast to steadily strengthen into a hurricane today and intensify into a major (Category 3 or stronger) hurricane over the eastern Gulf of Mexico as it accelerates toward Florida’s Gulf Coast on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Family members of Pervez Khan are now planning their own mission to find the missing pilot after he took off from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport this past weekend and never returned.

A 64-year-old man spent three days stranded on an island in the Bahamas until being rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard, which had spotted flares being fired near a disabled sailboat.

The U.S. Coast Guard says it rescued a 64-year-old man whose sailboat became disabled and who spent three days stranded on an island in the Bahamas.

Boniface Alexandre, who served as president of Haiti from 2004 to 2006 after the coup that overthrew Jean-Bertrand Aristide for the second time, died on Friday. He was 87.

In a story published June 28, 2023, The Associated Press reported that the submersible Titan was registered in the Bahamas.

The U.S. Coast Guard announced Monday that the search for Ryan Proulx, a free diver who vanished on Friday afternoon off the coast of Bimini, had come to an end.

Years of market pressures, lack of fisheries management and unchecked overfishing from larger commercial fishers have led to a decline in small fish such as sardines that rural coastal communities in the Philippines depend on.

A lawyer for onetime cryptocurrency darling Sam Bankman-Fried is signaling that he's challenging the validity of new charges contained in rewritten indictments released in recent weeks after his client was brought to the United States from the Bahamas in December.

Daredevil dog jumps off of a boat in the Bahamas and onto a hammer head shark in the Bahamas and it was all caught on camera.

Officials say the U.S. Coast Guard has detained a boat carrying 396 Haitian migrants near the Bahamas in one of the biggest human smuggling incidents in the region.

Tiger Woods and his 13-year-old son share more than a fundamentally sound golf swing.

The three primary committees charged with electing Democrats are setting aside more than $1 million in donations from disgraced crypto mogul Samuel Bankman-Fried this election cycle.

The U.S Coast Guard was on scene as officials intercepted a sailboat containing more than 75 migrants at a Lake Worth inlet on Saturday night, authorities said.

First-year guard Gradey Dick scored a season-high 25 points to help No. 3 Kansas beat North Carolina State 80-74 in the Battle 4 Atlantis opener.

Eliza Hollingsworth scored 18 points to help Gonzaga upset No. 6 Louisville 79-67 in Saturday night’s first round of the Battle 4 Atlantis.

Jordan King scored 17 of her 25 points after halftime while Marquette held third-ranked Texas to 31% shooting to beat the Longhorns 68-61 in Saturday’s first round of the Battle 4 Atlantis.

Tropical Storm Nicole is forecast to strengthen to a hurricane as it churns toward the northwestern Bahamas and Florida’s Atlantic coastline.

The unusual late season storm system coming together east of the Bahamas was formally christened Nicole by the National Hurricane Season during the pre-dawn hours Monday.

Subtropical Storm Nicole is now expected to become a hurricane over the Bahamas before hitting Florida’s east coast on Wednesday, well enough after polls close to avoid disrupting voting on Election Day, forecasters said.

A large area of low pressure cartwheeling westward through the Bahamas early next week could set the stage for a wet and windy week across parts of Florida and the southeast U.S.

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued nine Cuban migrants and a dog stranded in the Bahamas Friday, according to a tweet from the agency.

Tiger Woods has another loaded field for the Bahamas and his Hero World Challenge.

On the latest edition of the Miami Sports Pod, Local 10 Sports Anchors Will Manso and Clay Ferraro discuss the injury suffered by Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa and how the team and league has responded since.

Miami Heat Head Coach Erik Spoelstra joined his team in the Bahamas on Wednesday for the first time this training camp.

The Miami Heat are kicking off training camp in the Bahamas.

Detectives with the Broward Sheriff’s Office Missing Persons Unit are asking for the public’s help to locate a jet skier who may have been attempting to reach Bimini.

Meteorologists continue to monitor a tropical rainstorm northwest of Trinidad and Tobago. This tropical rainstorm will be in a favorable environment for strengthening as it moves through the southern Caribbean.

Authorities are investigating after a woman was killed by a shark in the Bahamas.

Coast Guard Cutter Robert Yered and Coast Guard Cutter Diligence intercepted the sailboat about 29 miles south of Cay Sal Bank, Bahamas.

Bahamian authorities said Tuesday that they have detained 111 Haitian migrants found on an overloaded sloop in waters around the archipelago.

Comedian and Florida native Lil Duval had to be airlifted to a Bahamas hospital after a car ran into him while riding a four-wheeler in the island nation Tuesday night.

The baby chicks were apparently unloaded from a plane and then left on the tarmac, baking in the sun on a day when the heat index hit 99 degrees.

Bermuda has shuttered schools, businesses and government agencies as Tropical Storm Alex brushed past the British overseas territory.

The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season is headed toward Bermuda after killing three people in Cuba and flooding roads in Florida.

Three Americans who were found dead at a Sandals resort in the Bahamas earlier this month died from carbon monoxide poisoning, local news outlets reported.

Officials say samples extracted from three U.S. tourists who died at a resort in the Bahamas under mysterious circumstances have been sent to a U.S. lab to expedite results and help authorities understand what happened.

Sandals confirmed that three people died at its resort in Grand Exhuma. CNN is reported that the dead are Americans.

The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted a crowded Haitian sailboat on Monday in the Bahamas.

Prince William says he will support and respect whatever decision the people make as Caribbean nations debate their relationship with the British crown.

Prince William and Kate Middleton are set to undertake an official overseas visit together for the first time since March 2020.

Prince William and Kate are embarking on a tour to Central America and the Caribbean, even as some countries in the region mull cutting ties to the British monarchy.

The Miami-based luxury cruise line has reportedly closed it is offices in the United States and fired some of its employees.

A second cruise ship has diverted to the Bahamas, avoiding a U.S. judge’s order to seize one of the company’s vessels.

Little is known about the 40 people believed to have been aboard a boat that capsized and was found this week near the Florida coast with just one survivor.

The U.S. government has launched a criminal investigation into whether a smuggling ring is behind a boat that capsized off Florida with 40 migrants onboard.

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for 39 people missing for several days after a boat believed to be used for human smuggling capsized off Florida’s coast en route from the Bahamas.

In Bimini, Ansil Saunders is a bonefishing legend and he recalls making an impact on the late Dr. Martin Luther King.

It was bad enough for Jordan Spieth and Henrik Stenson to finish at the bottom of a 20-man field in the Hero World Challenge.

Collin Morikawa is one round away from reaching No. 1 in the world.

A holiday exhibition in the Bahamas suddenly is shaping up to be a lot more.

Tiger Woods doesn't have a lot of answers about his past or his future.

Baylor coach Scott Drew knew his sixth-ranked Bears might need time to blend a changed roster after losing four starters from a national-championship run.

This week's Battle 4 Atlantis men's college basketball tournament in the Bahamas headlines the list of offshore events returning to the sport amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

South Carolina is the unanimous choice as the No. 1 team in The Associated Press women’s basketball poll.

The release of The Associated Press women’s basketball poll will be delayed a day because of a Monday afternoon matchup between the top two teams.

The only X on the board is a non-tropical low-pressure system well east of the Bahamas. There’s a very slight chance it could briefly evolve into some sort of a tropical system over the next day or so, so the National Weather Service continues to point it out.

The large area of disturbed weather east of the Bahamas is from a non-tropical low-pressure system with a robust upper-level disturbance. It’s under strong upper-level winds and will get swept out to sea in the next couple of days.

We still have two X's on the board, but neither of them is expected to amount to anything significant.

The system north of the Bahamas and about 200 miles off the Central Florida coast is just a minor empty swirl of clouds.

The tropics have gone amazingly quiet. The large area of disturbed weather extending from the Caribbean across the southern Bahamas into the Atlantic is being caused by a weak, elongated low-pressure system enhanced by a dip in the jet steam.

It’s an elongated area of low pressure at the surface being enhanced by a sharp dip in the jet stream that extends all the way into the Caribbean. The dip is pulling tropical moisture north and is enhancing the elongated disturbance.

The National Hurricane Center is making note of a broad area of disturbed weather over the southern Bahamas.

Officials said the plane had issues with its landing gear, causing the aircraft to skid off the runway.

Hurricane Sam is a classic, super-intense hurricane. Thankfully, it will clearly turn north well away from the Caribbean islands and well east of Florida and the Bahamas. Bermuda will have to watch it as the storm approaches that island toward the end of the week.

The disturbance we have been watching east of the Bahamas is getting slightly more organized. Tropical Disturbance #1 has a decent chance to eventually become a named storm, but it’s in a competition with Tropical Disturbance #2 on the other side of the Atlantic to see which one gets named first.

Just like Kesha said in her hit song “Tik Tok,” well, “the party don’t start till I walk in,” and that goes for her Kesha Cruise that is setting sail in 2022.

Tropical depression Fred is heading for a drenching of Cuba and the Bahamas on a forecast track that would carry it toward South Florida as a tropical storm by Saturday.

Allyson Felix finished third in the 400 meters to win her 10th medal and become the most-decorated woman in the history of Olympic track.

The U.S. Coast Guard and Border Patrol are searching for a missing 52-year-old woman who reportedly fell off a boat near the Bahamas.

COVID-19 forced the Bahamas to shut down when they were still recovering from the devastating aftermath of Category 5 Hurricane Dorian, which hit in 2019.

Gov. Ron DeSantis held a news conference at PortMiami Thursday morning, at which time he announced that the state would be filing a lawsuit against the federal government and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, demanding that cruise ships be allowed to start sailing immediately.

NASSAU, Bahamas – With Summer vacation right around the corner, there’s some promising news for cruise aficionados. According to a Tweet from Royal Caribbean, guests can sail on the Adventure of the Seas as soon as this June, for a 7-night vacation out of Nassau, Bahamas. We’re welcoming guests back on board Adventure of the Seas this June with 7-night getaways from Nassau, Bahamas. Learn more at: https://t.co/940MhHIreq pic.twitter.com/k0Me6eU4An — Royal Caribbean (@RoyalCaribbean) March 19, 2021Royal Caribbean’s web site states that all adult guests to sail on the ship must have had their COVID-19 vaccinations in order to sail. For more information on health and safety measures for Royal Caribbean, you can visit their web site.

The largest private island in the Bahamas is going up for sale. The 730-acre undeveloped island known as St. Andrews or Little Ragged Island is a deep-pocketed developer’s dream. The island is listed for $19.5 million but there is no minimum bid. It’s on sale through real estate company Concierge Auctions. Bidding opens March 26 and closes March 31.

MIAMI – Sri Kajamukam Chelliah met with migrants from Sri Lanka in Haiti, and traveled by boat with them to Turks and Caicos Islands, the Bahamas, and to Miami, federal authorities said. Chelliah, 55, also known as Richie, worked with human smugglers to arrange the migrants’ stay at a hotel in Port-au-Prince, and to board a sloop sailboat with about 154 migrants, prosecutors said. Chelliah, a Canadian national, served a year in prison in Turks and Caicos. Acting Assistant Attorney General Nicholas L. McQuaid released a statement accusing Chelliah of jeopardizing national security for financial gain. AdHomeland Security Investigations Miami investigated the case with the help of HSI Human Smuggling Unit and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. – The castaways a U.S. Coast Guard crew rescued from an uninhabited Bahamian island, between Key West and Cuba, were in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday. A U.S. Coast Guard crew found the woman and two men on Anguilla Cay, during a routine patrol on Monday near the southeast extremity of Cay Sal Bank. Coast Guard pilot spots castaways who had been stranded on an uninhabited island for 33 days. Castaways survive in uninhabited Bahamian island for 33 daysDougherty said the trio had been stranded there for 33 days after their boat capsized in rough waters and they were able to swim to the island. On Wednesday evening, the survivors were detainees at the ICE Broward Transitional Center in Pompano Beach.

MIAMI – People from South Florida to the Bahamas were asking about a strange sight in the sky on Tuesday night. Dr. Langbroek works in the astronomy department at Leiden University in the Netherlands, focusing on space situational awareness. “Of course, they always first think its aliens and, as we know, it’s never aliens,” said Dr. Langbroek. Dr. Langbroek was tweeting about what took many by surprise two days prior. “It’s a very spectacular sight,” said Dr. Langbroek, who said the test missile went down north of Ascension Island in the South Atlantic.

MIAMI – The U.S. Coast Guard found a woman and two men stranded on an uninhabited Bahamian island, between Key West and Cuba. According to a news release from the Coast Guard, a Coast Guard Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry first spotted the trio waving a makeshift flag while they were on routine patrol Monday. The aircrew dropped them food, water and a radio so they could speak with them while a Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater MH-60 helicopter crew was deployed to the scene. Coast Guard pilot spots castaways who had been stranded on an uninhabited island for 33 days. An Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircrew has dropped a radio, food and water.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search for 29-foot boat missing between the Bahamas and south Florida that didn’t arrive to its destination. Coast Guard District Seven received a report Tuesday that a blue and white 29-foot Mako Cuddy Cabin vessel, last known to be departing Bimini, Bahamas on Monday did not arrive as expected to its destination of Lake Worth. The Coast Guard and partner agencies searched approximately 17,000 square miles, roughly double the size of Massachusetts, for about 84 hours, according to the U.S. Coast Guard 7th District Southeast. #UPDATE Here is the search area made by the @USCG and @usairforce. If you have any information please contact Coast Guard #District7 Command Center at 305-415-6800 pic.twitter.com/5Zwb5Wonx4 — USCGSoutheast (@USCGSoutheast) December 31, 2020The search was suspended Friday.

MIAMI – Federal authorities are warning travelers to avoid going to The Bahamas due to coronavirus pandemic-related conditions. The U.S. Department of State’s “reconsider travel” advisory on Monday follows the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s warning on Saturday asking Americans to “avoid all travel” to the Bahamas. Bahamian authorities are requiring tourists to have a travel health visa. Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story erroneously stated that 7,460 cases of COVID-19 had been reported on Tuesday. That number is, in fact, the total number of cases that have been confirmed in the Bahamas to date.

Location 85 miles SE of Wilmington North Carolina Wind 45 mph Heading ENE at 21 mph Pressure 29.65 Coordinates 76.8W, 33.3NDiscussionAt 400 AM EST (0900 UTC), the center of Post-Tropical Cyclone Eta was located near latitude 33.3 North, longitude 76.8 West. The post-tropical cyclone is moving toward the east-northeast near 21 mph (33 km/h) and this motion is expected to continue with an increase in forward speed through Saturday. On the forecast track, Eta is expected to gradually pull away from the southeast U.S. Coast today. Eta could intensify a little as an non-tropical cyclone during the next day or so before it becomes absorbed by a larger non-tropical cyclone on Saturday or Saturday night. Tropics Models at 3:34 Friday Night, November 13thLand HazardsSURF: Swells generated by Eta will affect portions of the southeastern United States coast today.

Tropical Depression Nineteen spun up over the Bahamas a bit ahead of schedule. Tropical Storm Watches are already in effect for the Florida west coast. Satellite images of Tropical Depression 19 and Disturbance #1 (WPLG)In the central Atlantic, Tropical Storm Paulette has been maintaining its strength in spite of seriously hostile upper winds. Tropical Storm Rene is barely hanging on, strolling northward in the middle of the Atlantic. There is a race underway between Tropical Depression Nineteen and Disturbance #2 to see which can become Tropical Storm Sally first.

Tropical Depression Nineteen spun up over the Bahamas a bit ahead of schedule. Tropical Storm Watches are already in effect for the Florida west coast. Satellite images of Tropical Depression 19 and Disturbance #1 (WPLG)In the central Atlantic, Tropical Storm Paulette has been maintaining its strength in spite of seriously hostile upper winds. Tropical Storm Rene is barely hanging on, strolling northward in the middle of the Atlantic. There is a race underway between Tropical Depression Nineteen and Disturbance #2 to see which can become Tropical Storm Sally first.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – A disturbance in the Bahamas could organize into a tropical depression as it nears South Florida in the coming hours. Whether it meets that distinction or not, the system is expected to bring heavy rain and possible flooding to the area on Saturday. See Local 10 meteorologist Brandon Orr’s report in the video above for more details, and check the Local 10 Weather Authority Page for the latest forecast information. ALSO SEEBryan Norcross: The tropics are busy left, right and center in the Atlantic

The upper low is drawing moisture from the Caribbean over the Bahamas and the Florida peninsula, and it also contains a pocket of cooler air aloft. At the bottom end of the moisture surge feeding into the upper low is a weak tropical disturbance Tropical Disturbance #1. Disturbance #2 near Bermuda is loosely related to the moisture tail of former-Tropical Storm Omar, which has dissipated in the North Atlantic. Tropical Disturbance #3 is close to becoming a tropical depression or tropical storm. Tropical Disturbance #4, which just moved off the African coast, is also likely to become a tropical depression or tropical storm.

The upper low is drawing moisture from the Caribbean over the Bahamas and the Florida peninsula, and it also contains a pocket of cooler air aloft. At the bottom end of the moisture surge feeding into the upper low is a weak tropical disturbance Tropical Disturbance #1. Disturbance #2 near Bermuda is loosely related to the moisture tail of former-Tropical Storm Omar, which has dissipated in the North Atlantic. Tropical Disturbance #3 is close to becoming a tropical depression or tropical storm. Tropical Disturbance #4, which just moved off the African coast, is also likely to become a tropical depression or tropical storm.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – As the Bahamas continue to recover one year after Hurricane Dorian slammed the Abaco Islands, they are being met with another challenge. When COVID-19 forced the Bahamas to shut down, it slowed down the rebuilding efforts, but also left many without jobs. Just as businesses reopened, they were shut down as the Bahamas issued some of the strictest lockdown measures. The Bahamas currently has just over 2000 active COVID-19 cases and a recent surge forced even tougher lockdown measures to contain the spread. She’s been focused on economic relief and helping businesses to reopen, which now with the novel coronavirus, forced all businesses to restructure.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – Bahamians are marking the anniversary of a historic tragedy on Tuesday while dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. The devastating Category 5 Hurricane Dorian first made landfall Sept. 1, 2019 on the Abaco Islands and made a second landfall near Marsh Harbour. “I mean, I was pregnant; I was five months pregnant.”The massive flooding forced some to seek refuge in attics and cut holes in roofs. By Sept. 12, 2019, officials reported 1,300 people had vanished. Months later, Bahamas’ official death toll was 70, but it’s unclear how many people really died because there are still 200 people who are still considered missing.

Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said Orozcos deportation undercut the very credibility of the criminal justice system. Neither I nor our law enforcement partners could ever allow that to stand, Fernandez Rundle said in a statement. Miami-Dade prosecutors in the extradition section of the legal unit worked closely with the Coral Gables Police Department and the Department of Justice Office of International Affairs. Officers arrested him Sept. 11, 2018 and ICE deported him 13 days later. This criminal case will finally be resolved in a courtroom, Fernandez Rundle said.

The Remnants of Tropical Storm Isaias will die out in Canada today, swept up into a larger northern storm system. Isaias threaded its way between the Palm Beach County coast and Grand Bahama Island a distance of about 70 miles. As Isaias turned north toward North Carolina, the circulation was energized by warm Gulf Stream water and the upper winds that turned conducive for strengthening. (National Hurricane Center)There have already been two tropical storms in the Northeast this year Fay and now Isaias and it is only the beginning of August. Dry air is forecast to dominate the tropics into next week, which should keep the disturbances coming off of Africa far south and under control.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – Tropical Storm Isaias is offshore from Georgia and is expected to become a Category 1 hurricane again before it makes landfall near the Carolina coastline on Monday night. A hurricane warning has been issued for a portion of the coast of South and North Carolina. At 11 a.m. Monday, Tropical Storm Isaias was located about 90 miles east-southeast of Brunswick, Georgia, and 220 miles south-southwest of Myrtle Beach, S.C. A Hurricane Warning is in effect for South Santee River South Carolina to Surf City North Carolina. FOR MORE COVERAGE: Visit our Local 10 Hurricane Page11 a.m. Monday, Tropical Storm Isaias advisory.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center issued a hurricane warning from South Santee River, South Carolina, to Surf City, North Carolina. "We are forecasting it to become a hurricane before it reaches the coast this evening," senior hurricane specialist Daniel Brown said. Authorities were getting ready in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, ordering swimmers out of the water to avoid rough surf and strong rip currents. Were from Michigan, so we get snow and go through it all," Aliyah Owens, who arrived in Myrtle Beach for a summer vacation Sunday, told WTBW-TV. Anything that can move we tie down or bring inside, Philo told The Sun News of Myrtle Beach.

Last Sunday, Prime Minister Hubert Minnis said that beginning July 22, only international commercial flights and commercial vessels carrying passengers from Canada, the United Kingdom or the European Union were allowed to enter the Bahamas. But on Friday, there was a reversal, of sorts, of that decision making it possible for travelers from all countries to enter, even those from the United States. However, visitors from the States may want to plan a vacation longer than two weeks and have some extra cash on hand. Clause 26 of the Emergency Powers (COVID-19 Pandemic)(No. Visitors can arrive to Bahamas from U.S. on private charters or pleasure vessels without the 14 day quarantine requirement.

A surge of tropical moisture will move over South Florida today and tomorrow. The moisture is on the north end of a tropical disturbance that extends from the Bahamas south across Cuba into the Caribbean Sea. Cloudiness and some bands of heavy thunderstorms are expected over the southern Florida peninsula with the moisture surge. The peak of the moisture is forecast to move through during the day today, but the tail of the system will still be pulling moisture over South Florida tomorrow. The system is most likely to move through the southern Caribbean islands or along the northern coast of Venezuela as a moisture surge late in the week.

A mass of tropical moisture associated with a tropical disturbance over the Bahamas will push through South Florida late today and tomorrow. Embedded in that flow are minor disturbances of increased moisture, drier patches, and eventually another round of Saharan Dust. This one also has a slight chance of organizing somewhat before it reaches the islands or the coast of South America. On the current schedule, the next round of Saharan Dust will reach Florida over the weekend or early next week. The combination of the dust and the strength of the Atlantic high should keep the tropical Atlantic quiet through this week, at least.

Effectively immediately, its national air carrier, Bahamasair, will cease all outgoing flights to the United States. Tourism officials announced the opening of its border to international visitors on July 1. To accommodate visitors scheduled to leave after Wednesday, July 22, outgoing commercial flights will be permitted, according to the prime minister. Private international flights and charters for Bahamians, residents and visitors will be permitted. Parts of the Bahamas still continue to feel suffered setbacks from Hurricane Dorian, which slammed into the northern Bahamas in September 2019.

The general flow of air over South Florida will be off the ocean for the foreseeable future, which will break the relentless heat. Embedded in that flow – which will extend all the way across the Atlantic from Africa to Florida – are moisture and wind surges, which are generally related to each other. Computer forecast of where the moisture surges will be Saturday. These surges are disturbances that have moistened a patch in the continuous flow of Saharan Dust over the tropical Atlantic. As long as the dust covers the tropical ocean, however, these so-called tropical waves can’t organize once they leave the African land mass.