St. Thomas

A man lucky to be alive after the small plane he and his wife were flying in went down in Broward County said his faith in God and his training as a military pilot saved them.

A settlement was reached in the long-running civil lawsuit involving financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was accused of sexually abusing dozens of teenage girls.

St. Thomas University is welcoming students affected by Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria with open arms. The university has offered free room and board, as well as books, for up to 100 displaced students from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands for a year. NBC 6’s Amanda Plasencia reports.

Airlines continued to cancel flights in the Caribbean and expand travel waivers to Florida Wednesday ahead of Hurricane Irma, a Category 5 system barreling across the Atlantic.

The search for a missing 22-year-old woman who was washed into the sea by rough waters is expected to continue Sunday.