The Pigeon Express
Rescuers in the Bahamas have found the bodies of 17 Haitian migrants thought to have died after their vessel capsized in rough seas during a “suspected human smuggling operation,” the country’s leader said. The bodies of 15 females, a male and an infant were found in the water after the Royal Bahamas Police Force and […]
Thousands of baby chickens died from excessive heat, found in a cargo warehouse by a Miami-Dade airport employee, according to state and local officials. The “employee found the shipment of baby chickens in an Alliance (Ground International) Cargo warehouse that had arrived that day on a Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis-St. Paul” during a […]
Bahamian authorities arrested two cruise ships from the Hong Kong-based Crystal Cruises, the Crystal Symphony and the Crystal Serenity, after a U.S. court ordered their seizure last month over millions of dollars in unpaid fuel bills, according to cruise industry publications. After they changed course from Miami to avoid the U.S. judge’s order, the ships […]
Four more bodies have been recovered off the coast of Florida after a boat carrying 39 people capsized on the weekend, the United States Coast Guard announced, but it said it would end its search operations by sunset on Thursday unless new information surfaces. Authorities have now found a total of five bodies, which leaves […]
A man charged with groping a flight attendant has been sentenced to six months in prison. Enio Socorro Zayas was sentenced on Monday in US District Court in the Southern District of Florida, according to court documents. Zayas was indicted after an incident on August 6, 2021, aboard American Airlines flight 1723, traveling from Cancun […]
The US Coast Guard officials are searching for 39 people who are feared missing after their ship reportedly capsized on Saturday night off the Florida coast. Officials were alerted on Tuesday morning after fishermen spotted a man clinging to the hull of a boat 45 miles from the city of Fort Pierce. The survivor said […]
Rapper Kodak Black was arrested on a trespassing charge on Saturday in South Florida, authorities said. The Broward Sheriff’s Office said Black was taken into custody in his hometown of Pompano Beach early morning, according to the South Florida SunSentinel. Black, whose legal name is Bill Kapri, later posted bond and was released, the newspaper […]
A British woman who worked as an estate agent in Florida has been shot dead while preparing to show a property, allegedly by an evicted tenant. Sara Trost, 40, from Southend, Essex, was shot on Thursday while sitting in her Jeep outside a house in Coral Springs, 40 miles north of Miami, at about 12.33pm […]
Authorities discovered an apparent stowaway on Saturday in the landing gear of a flight from Guatemala at the Miami International Airport, local and federal officials said. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the airport apprehended a 26-year-old man who “attempted to evade detection in the landing gear compartment of an aircraft,” a CBP […]
An American Airlines passenger on a flight from Colombia used an emergency exit and walked out onto the wing of the plane at the Miami International Airport, Miami-Dade Police said. The plane had just landed and was getting into position at the gate, according to police. After walking onto the wing, the man jumped into […]
The family of the final victim unaccounted for in a deadly apartment block collapse in Florida say her remains have been found and identified.The discovery ends a weeks-long wait for the family of 54-year-old Estelle Hedaya, who had been missing since her building collapsed on 24 June.Her brother Ikey Hedaya told US media that local […]
The search and rescue for bodies in the rubble of the collapsed Florida apartment block has finally ended with one victim remaining unaccounted for.At least 97 people were killed when the 12-storey Champlain Towers South fell in the early hours of 24 June.But the remains of 54-year-old Estelle Hedaya are yet to be identified.Her family […]