Units contacted the caller of the initial boat crash at the Albee Rd. Bridge and confirmed this was the same vessel. Florida Fish & Wildlife and Venice Police are investigating. The boat has been ...

Two and a half years after the death of their 17-year-old daughter, Andy and Melissa Fernandez are pushing lawmakers to ...

A version of 'Lucy's Law' passed through the criminal justice committee in the Senate unanimously on Tuesday afternoon.

A new House Bill named after a 17-year-old South Florida student who lost her life in a boating accident aims to enhance boater safety. HB 289, known as "Lucy's Law" and named after Lucy Fernandez ...

(WFLA) — A new house bill was filed in Florida ahead of the 2025 ... also increases the penalties for reckless boating to include factors like accidents involving serious injury or death.

In the months following the accident, Castellanos opened a foundation and made it her mission to save lives. In 2009, Florida legislators passed the Osmany Castellanos Boating Safety Education Act.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— Florida wildlife officials have proposed new boating safety education requirements after another year of accidents and collisions took a deadly toll on people and the state’s ...