The Latest Breaking News from Keys

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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