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This is Brad and Beth Vickrey's permit for electricity, obtained almost immediately after the judge's ruling.
For some No Name Key homeowners, all that's left is getting their electrical and air conditioning contractors to show up, get their work done and inspected, and then throw the switch.
Posted: Saturday, May 25, 2013 06:00 AM EDT
While maritime arrivals of Cuban emigrants are down so far this year, Coast Guard and immigration officials are starting to encounter more people fleeing the communist nation as summer nears, bringing calmer water.
Posted: Thursday, May 23, 2013 04:40 PM EDT
Sal Zappulla pleaded no contest to third-degree felony computer hacking this week. He is pictured here speaking at a Key Largo Wastewater Treatment District meeting in 2011. (Reporter file photo)
The former chief finance officer of the Key Largo Wastewater Treatment District pleaded no contest to felony computer hacking Tuesday and was sentenced to one year of probation.
The plea was a settlement stemming from Sal Zappula’s arrest in March 2012 on 13 counts of computer crime with intent to defraud, seven counts of modifying information without authority and one count of deleting information from the special taxing district’s computer system.
Zappulla, 50, must also pay $420 in court costs, $100 to pay for the prosecution and $100 for the investigation, said Demetrios Efstratiou, supervising attorney with the Upper Keys State Attorney’s Office.
Posted: Thursday, May 23, 2013 04:38 PM EDT
Monroe County Circuit Court Judge David Audlin on Wednesday signed off on what's called a writ of mandamus that could bring commercial electricity to No Name Key in less than one week.
Posted - Wednesday, May 22, 2013 03:24 PM EDT
This is Dennis Zecca in happier times, when he commanded U.S. Coast Guard Station Islamorada.
With his federal trial fast approaching -- and facing a possible life sentence -- murder-for-hire suspect Dennis Zecca was transferred May 9 from the Monroe County Detention Center on Stock Island to the Miami Federal Detention Center.
He's now living in a jail that has held numerous infamous prisoners, from former Panamanian dictator and drug runner Manuel Noriega to cocaine kingpins Willie Falcon and Sal Magluta, from convicted Al-Qaeda operative Jose Padilla to Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein and former Monroe County Attorney Jim Hendrick.
Posted - Wednesday, May 22, 2013 06:00 AM EDT
Jay Rydberg was last known to be in Fort Myers.
An Alaskan man living in Key West the past year has gone missing -- along with the 39-foot trimaran he was traveling on, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday.
Jay Wesley Rydberg, 40, reportedly was living on the sailboat in the Garrison Bight Marina. He'd moved to Florida from Alaska to be near his 11-year-old son, who lives in Lehigh Acres in Southwest Florida.
Posted - Wednesday, May 22, 2013 05:30 AM EDT
A man whose body was found floating off Lower Matecumbe Key Sunday morning has been identified as Mark Parent, 55, of Ensoburg, Vt.
Posted - Wednesday, May 22, 2013 05:00 AM EDT
Authorities say the body went from the oceanside of the Channel 2 Bridge to the bayside.
The U.S. Coast Guard recovered the body of a man Sunday morning about a mile east of the Channel 2 Bridge around mile marker 73.
Authorities say they believe it's a man spotted early in the morning yelling for help as he floated under the span.
Posted - Monday, May 20, 2013 10:03 AM EDT
