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A Cudjoe Key man is facing a second-degree murder charge after sheriff’s deputies said he killed his wife in a bloody attack on Thursday morning.
A South Florida law enforcement agency is warning the public about persistent phone scam attempts.
A man from suburban Chicago is facing a litany of charges in the Florida Keys after authorities said he drunkenly stole a police cruiser while visiting Key West over the Memorial Day weekend.
Miami Beach commemorated Memorial Day on Monday.
A Marathon man is facing multiple charges after authorities said he called the FBI, threatening to shoot and kill a Monroe County deputy, then assaulted one who responded to his home.
A speeding boater hit and killed a Key West woman diving in the Lower Florida Keys on Friday, authorities tell Local 10 News.
A Florida Keys man is facing a felony after a commercial fisherman says he found him trying to steal his stone crab trap.
A Key Largo man was given a more than six-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to trying to kill his roommate with a crossbow.
A new apartment complex purchased for $7.5 million by Monroe County in 2025 remains vacant.
Authorities in the Florida Keys announced the identification of human remains related to an unsolved case from the 1980s.
A tourist believed to be drunk and high attacked a stripper at a club in Key West Tuesday night, leading to his arrest on three felony charges, authorities say.
A 17-year-old from Wausau, Wisconsin, was arrested late Friday night in Islamorada after deputies say he fled from authorities on an electric dirt bike while under the inlfiuence of alcohol.
Key West police say video of a man shooting a rooster in a park Friday morning “garnered community outrage as it circulated on social media.” They say the suspect turned himself in Friday afternoon to face an animal cruelty charge.
A Florida Keys sheriff’s deputy who retired while under investigation was arrested by his colleagues on several felonies Thursday after he was accused of falsifying his work timesheet.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigators were hunting for sex offenders who failed to register in the Florida Keys, and so far, they have found two.
A woman is facing two felony charges after a witness said she purposely hit a cyclist with her minivan in a Key West road rage incident on Monday night, injuring her and fleeing the scene, according to the city’s police department.
Sheriff’s deputies in the Florida Keys arrested a now-former firefighter and paramedic on Wednesday after accusing him of stealing fentanyl from an ambulance.
An arrested Florida Keys sheriff’s deputy misused official law enforcement databases in pursuit of a woman he met on the set of the television show “Bad Monkey,” according to documents obtained by Local 10 News on Wednesday.
A now-fired sheriff’s deputy in the Florida Keys was arrested by his former colleagues Tuesday afternoon “for misuse of law enforcement computers, computer networks, and electronic devices,” authorities said.
A former Key West businessman is now set to spend the rest of his life as a state prison inmate.
A Lower Keys fishing captain recently reeled in a 480-pound swordfish measuring 86 inches during a charter trip this week after a five-hour fight offshore.
Authorities arrested a Florida Keys woman on Monday after they said state wildlife officers found three dogs left in “deplorable conditions” on her boat.
A Jacksonville man was booked into jail on Wednesday after being accused of a late-January road rampage in Key West involving multiple hit-and-run crashes and two victims needing medical treatment.
Water worries are persisting across Miami-Dade and Monroe counties as a water shortage warning remains in effect.
Florida International University unveiled a statue of former President Ronald Reagan on Friday, marking what would have been his 115th birthday.
Temperatures in the Florida Keys have been at their lowest in 15 years, and without the ability to regulate their body temperature, the green sea turtles are suffering.
South Florida was in the midst of its deepest cold snap in more than a decade on Sunday morning, with temperatures in the mid-30s and wind chills in the mid-20s.
Deputies announced two arrests on Wednesday after they accused a pair of fishermen of burglarizing a Florida Keys aquarium and killing a tarpon last May.
A jury of 12 convicted a Key West businessman of first-degree murder Wednesday for shooting and killing a 21-year-old man whom he had confronted for urinating on the side of his building in 2023, prosecutors said.
What are friends for? One man may be asking himself that after police said his friend ditched him in the middle of the road in “extreme pain” during a stolen golf cart “joyride” around Key West over the weekend.
An Illinois lawyer spending time as a liveaboard in the Florida Keys is facing an animal cruelty charge after he was caught on camera abusing a dog, authorities said.
Deputies arrested a Florida Keys man early Thursday morning for having three sick and underfed dogs, according to an arrest warrant.
Drivers from Massachusetts ― Boston in particular ― have a bit of an unsavory reputation. A 29-year-old man from Beantown may have lived up to it while driving through the Florida Keys on Tuesday morning.
Newly-released body camera video from a Florida Keys deputy shows federal agents after stopping a driver in Key Largo earlier this month.
A pickup truck driver hit and killed a 7-year-old North Carolina girl riding a bicycle with her mother in Marathon on Tuesday afternoon, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Two women were arrested Friday for allegedly stealing more than $2,000 in groceries from a Winn-Dixie on Big Pine Key, authorities confirmed.
Dashcam video shows what state troopers said is a man from an affluent Washington, D.C. suburb leading them on a 122 mph chase in the Florida Keys.
A Florida Keys man is facing a felony charge after authorities said he let a 17-year-old runaway from suburban Atlanta stay at his home.
Four bottlenose dolphins born in captivity at the now-shuttered Miami Seaquarium will now live out the rest of their lives in the Florida Keys.
An out-of-state visitor is facing two felony charges in the Florida Keys after deputies said he was busted in an undercover sting trying to arrange a sexual meetup with an underage girl.
Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Marathon man on Thursday after accusing him of using an umbrella as a weapon during a dispute that began in a Home Depot parking lot and ended inside the store.
A 48-year-old Miami Shores man was arrested Friday after authorities said he groped a woman at a bar in the Florida Keys.
A 53-year-old Key Largo man was arrested earlier this week for illegally dumping more than 6,000 pounds of trash on Monroe County property, authorities confirmed Friday.
A member of a South Florida gang was arrested at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Monday after he was identified as the suspect in a bank scam, authorities said.
A former South Florida law enforcement officer is headed to state prison, prosecutors announced on Monday.
Grand Café on Duval Street in Key West was forced to close after inspectors uncovered an alarming rodent infestation.
A Marathon woman is facing a felony charge after deputies said she threw a knife at her boyfriend late Thursday afternoon, cutting him in the face.
Great white sharks are starting their annual migration south, drawn to the warmer waters off South Florida.
A man from an affluent Washington, D.C. suburb is facing a bevy of charges in the Florida Keys after authorities said he led them on a triple-digit chase on U.S. 1 in a rented Range Rover on Tuesday.
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office on Monday warned residents and businesses after reports of counterfeit movie money circulating in the Lower Keys, including Key West.
An American crocodile named Britney Spears is continuing her recovery at Zoo Miami after a harrowing ordeal in which she was shot in the eye and impaled with a fishing spear in the Florida Keys earlier this month, officials said.
A South Florida pharmacist is facing more than 80 charges after authorities said she forged “dozens” of prescriptions.
Authorities have released body camera footage showing the response from first responders after a child was bitten by a shark.
A man was injured on Saturday during a shark encounter off the Florida Keys.
An American crocodile shot in the head with a spear gun and rescued in the Florida Keys on Monday "also has a bullet in between the eyes," staff at Zoo Miami said on Tuesday.
State wildlife officers are seeking information and offering a reward after an American crocodile shot with a spear gun was spotted in Key Largo.
A Florida Keys sheriff’s deputy was arrested by his own colleagues after they said he drove drunk with “a young child in the vehicle” while off-duty early Wednesday morning.
Oklahoma felon Edward James Guidry was considered an “armed and dangerous” wanted man in 2021 before he was caught in Texas and locked up back in the Sooner State after being convicted of, among other things, pointing a gun at someone.
Card Sound Road was closed in both directions after a motorcyclist crashed and died on Sunday in Miami-Dade County.
A chaotic and dangerous wrong-way chase in the Florida Keys ended at a Key Largo resort ― and with two of the three suspects trying to hatch creative ways to blend in, witnesses and deputies said.
Police arrested a Key West woman on three felony charges Friday night after they said she made armed threats over a “stolen” phone that was never actually stolen at all.
Two detention deputies with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office were arrested Friday after investigators said they conspired to smuggle fentanyl into the Stock Island Detention Center.
Four Florida Keys bail bondsmen, two of whom were already facing legal trouble in Miami-Dade County, were booked into the Monroe County jail on an assortment of charges on Tuesday.
A Key Largo man is facing an attempted murder charge after deputies said he tried to kill his roommate with a bow and arrow Tuesday morning.
A trip to the Florida Keys ended in tragedy over the weekend after a Plantation teen drowned during a dive.
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that a 17-year-old boy from Plantation, Florida died in a water-related incident following a dive on a hookah rig off Grassy Key, oceanside.
The new legislative session for Florida lawmakers begins in October, but the first policy bill of the 2026 session has been filed, pushing to change the state bird.
About two days after a shark attack off the Florida Keys, the parents of an 8-year-old boy from Pinecrest said he remained hospitalized on Wednesday -- and they were “immensely proud” of his 10-year-old sister’s “strength of character and composure.”
For the first time, commissioners in the Florida Keys used a surplus of tourist tax dollars to build affordable housing for tourism workers, thanks to a Florida law passed in 2024.
A man and woman were arrested Friday for engaging in a sexual act while in public view at a Marathon gas station in the Florida Keys.
A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Officer helped rescue a driver heading into the Florida Keys Wednesday afternoon after she was trapped in an overturned vehicle.
Tributes poured in over the weekend for a South Florida charter boat captain after authorities said the 43-year-old became the victim of a deadly road rage shooting in the Orlando area.
A Broward County firefighter’s visit to the Florida Keys over the weekend came with a felony, sheriff’s deputies said.
A Fort Lauderdale woman is facing multiple charges in the Florida Keys after deputies said she led them on a high-speed chase on U.S. 1 on Saturday.
A community in Key Largo was told it would be second on the county’s list to receive flooding relief.
Bails of drugs washed up near the Square Grouper Marina in Islamorada Saturday afternoon.
A 42-year-old Miami man who identified himself as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent during a traffic stop was arrested Wednesday on charges of driving under the influence and child endangerment, authorities confirmed Thursday.
A Miami federal jury has sided with plaintiffs suing Tesla over the company’s Autopilot system. Jurors found the company partially liable as they handed down a nine-figure verdict Friday afternoon.
Three significant incidents, including two deaths, occurred in Monroe County during the annual lobster mini season this week, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday.
A man died Thursday morning after snorkeling in the ocean off Mile Marker 74 in the Florida Keys, authorities confirmed.
The parents of a boy from North Carolina who survived a shark attack in the Florida Keys released their debut book: “Rescue at the Reef: The Miraculous True Story of a Little Boy with Big Faith,“ published on Tuesday
A 57-year-old Stock Island man was arrested this past weekend after authorities said he threatened to stab his brother and burn down his home.
A critical voice took the stand Wednesday in the first-ever federal jury trial involving Tesla’s Autopilot system: a safety expert who says the technology is defective and promoted in ways that encourage misuse.
A Key West woman claimed she used bear spray on another driver to “teach her a lesson” for running over a chicken crossing the road, according to an arrest report obtained by Local 10 News on Tuesday.
Jury selection got underway Monday in a high-stakes trial involving Tesla and its Autopilot system in Miami federal court.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is pushing back against false information circulating online about spiny lobster season.
A Marathon boat captain is facing two felony and two misdemeanor charges after sheriff’s deputies said he threatened two out-of-state tourists, one of whom was a teenager, as they fished from kayaks near a resort where they were staying.
Two bail bondsmen working for a South Florida company are accused of bailing out a couple who never even hired them and then demanding that they pay up.
A Florida Keys man has been sentenced to six years in a Florida state prison after pleading guilty to six felonies tied to two separate child exploitation cases, authorities confirmed Wednesday.
