FUGITIVE MARATHON PASTOR WANTED FOR ASSAULTING 15-YEAR-OLD CAUGHT IN TEXAS
A Marathon pastor facing charges for molesting a 15-year-old girl has been apprehended in Texas just four days after skipping his April 1 arraignment, Monroe County Sheriff...
ISLAMORADA COUNCIL REVERSES COURSE ON REFERENDUM FOR STAGGERED 4-YEAR TERMS
Islamorada council turned down a pair of ordinances related to a referendum for staggered four-year terms and upping the village manager’s purchasing authority from $25,000 to $50,000.
At...
ROADWAY RESURFACING BEGINS IN JUNE ON THIS SECTION OF THE 18-MILE STRETCH
Resurfacing work will begin later this summer on a rough stretch of highway between Jewfish Creek Bridge in Key Largo and the Miami-Dade County line.
Between the growing...
WHAT IS THE FUTURE FOR ARTIFICIAL REEFS? SANCTUARY ADVISORY COUNCIL BLENDS OPTIMISM AND CAUTION
An outline of the future for Monroe County’s artificial reef program was met with a mixture of anticipation, caution and debate at the April 16 meeting of...
CUBAN MIGRANTS RESCUED FROM AN UNINHABITED UPPER KEYS ISLAND
A group of Cuban migrants made landfall on an uninhabited Upper Keys island after sailing the treacherous waters off the Florida Keys.
Federal, state and local authorities responded...
KEY LARGO SEES A MOSQUITO SWEEP FROM LOCAL INSPECTORS
A focused, door-to-door effort to eliminate and treat habitats for potentially disease-spreading mosquitoes kicked off in Key Largo on the morning of April 16.
This “sweep” brought trained...
KEYS’ SHORES AREN’T WITNESSING MANY MIGRANT LANDINGS; RESOURCES AT SEA ARE PART OF THE...
At sea, a federal task force works to deter illegal voyages among migrants in Haiti, Dominican Republic and Cuba seeking to flee political unrest and violence.
Close to...
‘TREEHOUSE MURDER’ SUSPECT FRANKLIN TYRONE TUCKER JAILED IN OREGON ON $3M BOND
A Monroe County judge on April 30 issued an arrest warrant for the suspect in the 2017 murder of 59-year-old Matthew Bonnett on Stock Island, a case...
KEYSWIDE BLOOD DRIVE SET FOR MAY 9 IN HONOR OF INJURED DEPUTY
Monroe County Sheriff’s Deputy Julian Garcia has undergone multiple surgeries since a traffic stop in Islamorada one month ago nearly cost him his life.
“I think he’s had...
KEYS REPUBLICANS QUESTION ENDORSEMENT IN PRIMARY
Monroe County Republicans are taking some heat from their own members in light of the local party’s recent endorsement of a candidate for supervisor of elections, which...
