The U.S. Coast Guard has been searching for tar balls that began showing up on Florida beaches over the weekend. So far, the ...

The source of the tar remained unknown Sunday morning as the Coast Guard investigation resumed. Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue ...

After aerial flights and physical searches, the Coast Guard says the little blobs of oil are no longer floating ashore.

South Floridians enjoying a pleasant Saturday at the beach found themselves stepping in dark, greasy balls of oil, possibly ...

The spring break tradition in Florida stretches back to the early 1960s, when the movie “Where the Boys Are” put Fort ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Tribune News Service) — South Floridians enjoying a pleasant Saturday at the beach found themselves ...

At 7:05 p.m. Saturday, the Coast Guard’s Southeast District posted to social media that “Coast Guard air and surface crews completed searches from Palm beach to Port Everglades for the source of the ...

Mysterious tar balls washed up on several Florida beaches, forcing closures and triggering an investigation by the U.S. Coast ...

Beach-goers sit along the sand but do not venture into the water due to tar balls washing ashore Saturday afternoon. (Scott Luxor/South Florida Sun Sentinel) Otherwise, Fort Lauderdale’s beach r ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has been searching for tar balls that began showing up on Florida beaches over the weekend FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The U.S. Coast Guard has been searching for tar balls that ...