In recent months, media coverage-most notably from the Miami Herald-has cast doubt on the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) investigation into the tragic boating accident that ...

The trial date for a real estate broker arrested in connection to the death of a 17-year-old girl during a boating accident<a ...

A judge agreed to reset a trial date for a prominent real estate broker who pleaded not guilty to felony vessel homicide in a ...

Cracking down on reckless and intoxicated boaters, Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed two pieces of legislation this summer, one ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a measure (HB 289), known as “Lucy’s Law, that includes the changes. The bill was spurred by a 2022 crash in the Florida Keys that resulted in the death of ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Friday, June 27, 2025, a boater safety law named for Luciana Fernandez, a 17-year-old Miami-Dade County girl who was killed in a Sept. 4, 2022, vessel crash ...

Boating under the influence causing manslaughter now carries a four-year prison sentence minimum under the legislation kinown ...

DeSantis received HB 289, also known as Lucy's Law on Wednesday, June 18. The bill was named after Lucy Fernandez, a 17-year-old Miami girl who died in a boating crash that also permanently disabled ...

FWC Chair Rodney Barreto and Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle exchanged at least nine texts in the months after the 2022 crash.

View of a fiberglass piece from the hull of George Pino’s 29-foot Robalo, which he crashed into channel marker #15 in Biscayne Bay on Sept. 4, 2022. The crash led to the death of a 17-year-old ...

The body cam footage of two officers on the scene of the George Pino boat crash was deleted.