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 ...

The families of a girl who died and of a girl seriously injured in the George Pino boat crash praised a state law that ...

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 ...