Officials are blaming illegal firearms for an increase or a record number of killings in a growing number of Caribbean islands this year.

The US Coast guard is searching for a missing Royal Caribbean cruise ship passenger.

After taking a slow, horseshoe-shaped dip across eastern Cuba over the past 36 hours and dumping over a foot of heavy rain – causing pockets of significant flooding – poorly-organized Oscar is picking up the pace and accelerating through the southeastern Bahamas and toward the western Atlantic.

Tropical Storm Oscar has disintegrated as it heads toward the Bahamas after making landfall in Cuba as a Category 1 hurricane, killing at least seven people.

It’s not often we see a colossal failure in hurricane forecasting, but over the weekend the sudden formation of Hurricane Oscar on Saturday near the Turks and Caicos off the southeastern Bahamas was a reminder why we watch every system carefully, especially those close to land during the peak months of the hurricane season.

Tropical Storm Oscar is heading toward the Bahamas after dumping heavy rain across eastern Cuba.

Oscar has weakened to a tropical storm after making landfall Sunday in eastern Cuba.

After forming in the western Caribbean, Tropical Storm Nadine was away from Florida and impacted Central America on Saturday.

The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to expand the arms embargo in Haiti to all types of weapons and ammunition, expressing grave concern at the extremely high levels of gang violence and criminal activities in the impoverished Caribbean nation.

The Cleveland Cavaliers were hitting golf balls into a lake and some people couldn’t figure out why.

Forecasters say Hurricane Kirk has strengthened into a Category 4 storm in the Atlantic Ocean and waves caused by it could cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions this weekend.

Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis tells The Associated Press that his nation is in a financial pickle.

We continue to follow a large tropical wave moving toward the easternmost Caribbean islands with little fanfare.

Beginning last Wednesday we began previewing the possibility of development of a tropical disturbance nearing the Caribbean islands for this week and in Friday morning’s newsletter we discussed a more conducive configuration for development once the disturbance moves into the western Atlantic later this week.

As we say often in this newsletter, things can change in a hurry in the tropics, and with formation areas closer to the U.S. in the early months, it’s always worth a daily check-in. Our forecast models reminded us of this over the weekend as they quickly latched on to a new system east of the Bahamas for possible development in the days ahead.

A patient who survived a shark attack in the Bahamas and his surgeons are set to talk to the public about his treatment on Thursday in West Palm Beach.

U.S. Coast Guard crews from Miami are aiding in the search for a man who went overboard from a South Florida-based cruise ship Thursday morning.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX was sentenced to 25 years in prison after being convicted of fraud for stealing at least $10 billion from customers and investors.

Bahamian authorities were investigating two deaths after an explosion in a Holland America Line cruise ship.

The PGA Tour has taken a step toward sparking negotiations with the Saudi Arabia national wealth fund behind LIV Golf.

Crews from the U.S. Coast Guard’s Miami sector are searching for a pair of boaters who were last heard from as they departed from the Florida Keys for the Bahamas.

American Airlines will now be flying to a brand-new Caribbean destination from Miami International Airport.

The U.S. State Department warned Americans against travel to the Bahamas on Monday after gang violence resulted in 18 murders — even in broad daylight — just this year, in Nassau.

The U.S. State Department warned Americans against travel to the Bahamas on Monday after gang violence resulted in 18 murders — even in broad daylight — just this year, in Nassau.

Police in the Bahamas say a 10-year-old boy from Maryland was attacked by a shark at a local resort.

Golf’s ruling bodies are changing the equipment testing to make sure the golf ball doesn't go as far for everyone from Tiger Woods to the amateur who plays public courses on the weekend.

Police say a female tourist from Boston has been killed by a shark while paddleboarding in the Bahamas, police told reporters.

Justin Moore scored five of his 16 points in overtime and Eric Dixon had a career-high 34 points and 10 rebounds as Villanova beat No. 14 North Carolina 83-81 on Thursday in the semifinals of the Battle 4 Atlantis.

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.