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• Cruise passenger goes missing off Mexican coast

  February 3, 2012 12:32 PM

  MIAMI (AP) - A search is under way in waters near Mexico for a British cruise ship passenger who apparently went overboard. The Royal Caribbean International cruise line said Friday that another passenger saw the 30-year-old man go over the railing from his stateroom on the Allure of the... more »

• Tomas now tropical storm, expected to strengthen

  November 1, 2010 8:22 AM

  KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent (AP) - Tomas has now weakened to a tropical storm, but not before tearing off roofs and bringing down power lines in the eastern Caribbean. Forecasters say the storm could regain strength and head toward Haiti, which still hasn't recovered from a powerful earthquake earlier this... more »

• Tropical Storm moving erratically in the Caribbean

  October 22, 2010 8:36 AM

  MIAMI (AP) -Forecasters say Tropical Storm Richard has been moving erratically in the Caribbean but is expected to begin moving slowly west. Richard's maximum sustained winds Friday are near 40 mph. But additional strengthening is forecast for the 17th named storm of the Atlantic season and it could become... more »

• Hurricane Danielle now a major storm

  August 27, 2010 8:31 AM

  Forecasts say Hurricane Danielle has reached major hurricane status and keeps getting more dangerous. National Hurricane Center forecasters say Danielle is now a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 135 mph. Forecasters say swells churned up by Danielle could reach parts of the U.S. East Coast by... more »

• Americans aboard airline 'miracle' crash

  August 16, 2010 11:14 AM

  A Boeing 737 jetliner with 131 passengers aboard crashed on landing and broke into three pieces at a Colombian island in the Caribbean early Monday. The region's governor said it was a miracle that only one person died. Colombian Air Force Col. David Barrero said officials were investigating reports... more »

• Police give Dutchman case to prosecutors

  June 10, 2010 8:13 AM

  Peru's criminal police chief says that Joran van der Sloot's confession in the murder of a 21-year-old woman was so complete that police decided there was no need to take him to the crime scene for a walkthrough. Gen. Cesar Guardia says the case against van der Sloot, who... more »

• Report: Congressman Rangel broke ethics rules

  February 25, 2010 7:05 PM

  The Associated Press has learned that the House ethics committee has concluded that Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel knowingly accepted Caribbean trips in violation of House rules that forbid hidden financing by corporations. A congressional source familiar with the findings but not authorized to be quoted by... more »

• Caribbeans urged to write in ancestry on US Census

  February 24, 2010 12:35 PM

  Black people of Caribbean descent are being asked by their community's leaders to write in their nationalities on the upcoming U.S. Census. Those leaders wanted the Census Bureau to treat Caribbean immigrants and their children like Hispanics, who get to note whether they are descended from another country like... more »

• Suspect confessed in Natalee Holloway murder

  February 23, 2010 2:27 PM

  The suspect in the disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway has confessed to disposing of her body in a swamp on the Caribbean island of Aruba, according to a Dutch tabloid newspaper and Aruba's chief prosecutor. Joran van der Sloot made the statement in a sit-down interview with a... more »

• Haiti's capital shattered by powerful earthquake

  January 13, 2010 10:54 AM

  Residents of Haiti are awaiting help in the wake of the strongest earthquake to hit the Caribbean nation in more than two centuries. The International Federation of Red Cross says up to 3 million people have been affected by yesterday's 7.0-magnitude quake. Tens of thousands have lost their homes, and... more »

• 'Substantial' casualties feared after 7.0 Haiti quake

  January 12, 2010 5:25 PM

  A powerful earthquake hit the impoverished country of Haiti on Tuesday, collapsing a hospital and other buildings and raising fears of "substantial" casualties. A reporter for the Reuters news agency in Port-au-Prince, the capital, said he saw dozens of dead and injured people in the rubble, which blocked streets... more »

• Coast Guard: Missing boaters located near Bahamas

  September 29, 2009 11:48 AM

  Coast Guard officials in South Florida say three boaters reported missing on a trip from Lake Worth to the Bahamas have been located. Authorities say the crew aboard the Flying Pig heard a marine broadcast Tuesday that asked other boaters to be on the lookout for their vessel. The crew... more »

• Hurricane Ivan victims feel forgotten

  September 15, 2009 1:26 PM

  People who lived through Hurricane Ivan can't forget the haunting images left by one of the strongest storms ever recorded: condo towers collapsed in roiling surf, splintered homes or flat slabs, fragments of highways lost in a sea of sand. They wish others remembered, too. Not quite a year... more »