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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, at its Wednesday meeting in Lakeland, approved a proposal to make tarpon and bonefish catch-and-release-only fisheries.
Posted: Sunday, June 16, 2013 11:00 AM EDT
A first look at the Monroe County School District's proposed 2013-14 budget, presented to the School Board at a Tuesday workshop, indicates year-over-year increases in both revenue and expenses.
Posted: Saturday, June 15, 2013 06:00 AM EDT
Key West police are investigating an unidentified 17-year-old's claim that he was kidnapped at gunpoint and robbed by three masked men in Old Town on June 10.
Posted: Saturday, June 15, 2013 10:10 AM EDT
The state Department of Transportation says the 18-Mile Stretch barbed wire is needed to protect wildlife, but Zoo Miami's communications director says otherwise.
State officials say barbed-wire fencing along the 18-Mile Stretch connecting Key Largo to Florida City is essential to protect wildlife, but one of South Florida's most prominent animal advocates bristles at the idea.
"My common sense is telling me that barbed wire is too little, too late by the time the animal gets on the fence," said Ron Magill, communications director for Zoo Miami. "Once the animal hits the barbed wire, he's just going to grab and pull and it'll cut him more."
Posted: Monday, June 17, 2013 08:50 PM EDT
Starr, S.C., resident Leona Blackburn shot this photo Sunday morning of the 22-foot pontoon boat from which she and two others were rescued by Key Colony Beach officer Chuck Griffith. Blackburn said the engine gave out unexpectedly and the boat began sinking.
Key Colony Beach police officer Chuck Griffith helped save the life of three Keys visitors -- including a paraplegic man -- last Sunday after their pontoon boat took on water in rough seas off Coco Plum.
Posted: Saturday, June 15, 2013 06:00 AM EDT
This is Brenda Heist before she ran away and the day she turned herself in in Key Largo.
A mother who disappeared from her central Pennsylvania home in 2002 and was later declared legally dead before resurfacing in the Florida Keys on April 26 has been sent to jail on a probation violation.
Posted - Saturday, June 15, 2013 10:10 AM EDT
Monroe County Airports Director Peter Horton has long been skeptical about the viability of commercial air service in the Middle Keys.
Posted - Saturday, June 15, 2013 10:40 AM EDT
Despite a May 30 public ceremony in which the Monroe County School District handed over the keys to Glynn Archer Elementary School to the city of Key West for use as a city hall, the two entities want to extend the June 28 official transfer date.
Posted - Saturday, June 15, 2013 10:00 AM EDT
U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia wants to start a national discussion about the issue of exempting privately owned military housing in Key West and elsewhere from local property taxes.
Posted - Saturday, June 15, 2013 06:00 AM EDT
Marathon Finance Director Peter Rosasco on Tuesday likely wasn't stressing a City Council discussion about his contract for another year.
Posted - Saturday, June 15, 2013 10:20 AM EDT
