Majority control in Congress is still an open question as counting in a handful of districts is still underway.

Deputies in the Florida Keys arrested two men for street racing along U.S. 1 in Marathon Friday evening, authorities said. One of them, they said, had a child in the car.

More than 35,000 property owners in the Florida Keys received an extra tax bill this week.

Rafael took advantage of a deep reservoir of warm water south of Cuba to rapidly intensify since yesterday and is expected to be a major (Category 3) hurricane before striking western Cuba later today.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating a boat crash in Key Largo that occurred early Sunday morning.

A boat crashed into the Card Sound Road Bridge in Key Largo Wednesday night, injuring several passengers, with one requiring an airlift for treatment. authorities confirmed Thursday.

Key Largo residents Jason and Marketa Kendall are moving up.

A Key West man is facing multiple criminal charges after authorities accused him of donning gloves with built-in lasers and shining the lights into police vehicles early Monday morning; one officer said it nearly caused him to crash into another cop while driving.

The Fantasy Fest’s “It’s a 90s Neon Cosmic Carnival!” march was on Friday in Key West.

After a cruel summer of waiting, the eras tour has finally arrived at Hard Rock Stadium! Taylor has a big reputation for dazzling shows, so the weather must cooperate! Fortunately, it looks like it will!

South Florida, it’s that time of year again. Stone crabs will be back in season beginning on Tuesday, Oct. 15.

Monroe County Mayor Holly Merrill Raschein said the way construction is done in the Florida Keys has to change.

The Coast Guard released a video Saturday of a recent rescue at sea northeast of Key West.

Streets in the Upper Florida Keys are swamped with floodwaters as Hurricane Milton brought heavy storm surges and coastal flooding to the region.

The Florida Keys felt the effects of Hurricane Milton as its outer bands began bringing strong winds and high surf to the region, disrupting daily life and drawing concern from residents and visitors alike.

A 39-year-old Davie man is facing a felony charge in the Florida Keys after deputies said he pointed a gun at two people during a road rage incident on Tuesday afternoon.

As Hurricane Milton approaches, life in Key West is on hold for many, especially those who rely on the waters for their livelihood.

While Hurricane Milton was not forecast to land a direct hit on South Florida, some entities were closing or modifying hours in advance of the storm.

Public schools in the Florida Keys will be closed Wednesday as Hurricane Milton approaches the Sunshine State, according to a school district social media post.

A tropical storm watch was in effect for the Florida Keys Monday as Hurricane Milton roared off the Gulf of Mexico.

Hurricane Helene was moving fast Thursday on the Gulf of Mexico. The wide Category 2′s rain bands affected the Florida Keys. Waves crashed into the anchored concrete Southernmost Point Buoy in Key West.

The effects of Hurricane Helene could be felt in the lower Florida Keys on Wednesday night into Thursday morning.

A 72-year-old Charlotte County man is facing a vessel homicide charge in the Florida Keys after state wildlife officers said he was responsible for the death of a spearfisherman in the Florida Straits over the summer.

Monroe County Public Schools announced all of the schools and districts’ offices will be closed on Thursday as part of preparations for Hurricane Helene’s impact in Florida.

A group of 43 migrants from Cuba were detained early Tuesday morning after they came ashore in the Florida Keys, authorities confirmed.

A man is facing a felony charge after authorities said he was driving drunk when he crashed into two vehicles at an intersection near his home on Stock Island over the weekend, sending one victim to a Miami-Dade trauma center and injuring two others.

A man’s generosity led to him being punched and nearly stabbed in the Florida Keys over the weekend, deputies said.

A dangerous scene was caught on camera in the Florida Keys over the weekend.

More than 300 swimmers competed in an open-water race off the Florida Keys. Athletes swam to Alligator Lighthouse off Islamorada, around the lighthouse, then back to the start line at Amara Cay Resort.

A South Florida social media video creator used his platform to groom and molest a young girl, leading deputies to jail him on a felony charge, according to an arrest warrant made public on Monday.

Deputies in the Florida Keys arrested a 65-year-old man Friday afternoon on a child sexual abuse charge; they said it’s the first of what will likely be more criminal counts to come.

More than two dozen people, mainly from the Florida Keys and Miami-Dade County, have been arrested by the FBI after authorities accused them of trafficking cocaine, officials with the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.

A Washington, D.C. federal judge handed down a prison sentence of more than three years to a South Florida man who pleaded guilty to attacking police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, officials announced Tuesday.

Deputies in the Florida Keys arrested a 66-year-old man over the weekend on three criminal charges after they said he was caught on camera exposing himself on a neighbor’s property.

A 46-year-old man’s approach to selling methamphetamines at a Florida Keys strip mall landed him in jail Wednesday, according to sheriff’s deputies.

A scathing Monroe County grand jury report into a wide-ranging narcotics theft scandal centering around the county fire department’s air ambulance program — leading to four indictments — sharply criticizes county officials for lacking “integrity and accountability” and fostering a “caustic and cronyistic environment.”

Authorities in Florida alerted residents Wednesday about a new scam involving fake letters that appear to be from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

A woman visiting the Florida Keys from out-of-state with her husband to meet with a “possible employer” landed in jail after downing half a bottle of liquor in five minutes, crashing into a combination bar-liquor store and then fighting with sheriff’s deputies, authorities said.

Deputies arrested a Florida Keys man after they said two good Samaritans found his young child wandering alongside the Overseas Highway just before midnight Saturday.

Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay says four men and one woman arrested on smuggling charges in the Florida Keys are part of a sophisticated human trafficking operation.

A Florida Keys sheriff’s deputy facing 19 felony charges after her own agency accused her of illegally accessing its databases to pass along information to her teenage “drug dealer” boyfriend was set to be fired Wednesday evening, her employer announced.

Five people are facing 20 felony charges a piece after authorities said they helped to smuggle 20 migrants onto the shores of South Florida over the weekend, officials announced Tuesday.

Morgan Coleman, of The Castaway Waterfront Restaurant & Sushi Bar, set up a GoFundMe page to benefit the grieving Dominguez Family.

Former Monroe County Administrator Roman Gastesi became the latest official in the Florida Keys to face a criminal charge as prosecutors announced his indictment on a felony charge by a grand jury.

The ongoing effort to save Florida’s endangered coral reefs recently received some extra muscle from wounded US Veterans.

Family members have identified the victims of a deadly personal watercraft crash in Marathon Tuesday evening as a man and his young son.

Two people died in a personal watercraft crash in the Florida Keys on Tuesday evening, officials told Local 10 News.

A grand jury has indicted the medical director and a division chief of a South Florida fire department for their involvement in a flight nurse drug theft scandal, prosecutors said Friday.

A man contracted to help promote the Florida Keys to visitors from around the world is now facing more than two dozen criminal charges over allegations that he made false statements about payments to a non-existent company.

A good Samaritan made a surprising discovery on a South Florida beach Monday morning.

Key West police arrested an out-of-town visitor over the weekend after they said he followed a woman into a bathroom at a popular restaurant, cornered her and exposed himself.

Tropical Storm Debby was advancing across the southeastern Gulf of Mexico Sunday, and the rain bands were set to cause more evening thunderstorms in South Florida.

Keisha Eleby lives steps away from the southernmost point in Florida. A tropical storm watch was in effect for the lower Keys on Saturday. The long-time Florida resident knows the drill.

Preparations are underway in the Florida Keys as residents brace for the possible impact of Tropical Depression Four.

A tropical storm warning and a flood watch by the National Hurricane Center were in effect on Friday night in the Florida Keys, from Key Largo to Key West.

Potential Tropical Cyclone Four strengthened into Tropical Depression 4 Friday night and is expected to eventually become Tropical Storm Debby near South Florida this weekend. As you can imagine, our weather will start to deteriorate early Saturday.

A 40-year-old South Florida cop illegally accessed law enforcement databases and sent her teenage “drug dealer” boyfriend information on impending drug raids and confidential informants in the Florida Keys, according to an arrest warrant obtained by Local 10 News on Thursday.

A Florida Keys sheriff’s deputy was arrested by her employer on more than a dozen computer crimes charges Wednesday, officials said.

Newly-released body camera video shows deputies and firefighters working to rescue a snorkeler injured by a boat propeller after being struck off the Lower Florida Keys during lobster mini-season.

A heat advisory is in effect through Wednesday evening for South Florida.

It was a clear sunny day out in the ocean off the Florida Keys on Monday when trouble hit 37-year-old Jose Angel Abreu.

Medics airlifted a spearfisherman to a Miami-area hospital after a shark bite off the coast of Key West, officials said Monday.

A report from Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission investigators released Friday suggests impairment may have played a role in an overnight boat crash in the Lower Florida Keys earlier in the week.

Key West police arrested a west Miami-Dade woman on a felony charge early Thursday morning after they said she and her 8-year-old son were found living in a filthy car filled with trash and insects.

A 69-year-old Marathon man is facing an animal cruelty charge after authorities said a “dog had been locked in a vehicle for several hours with no food or water and later died.”

Medics airlifted three people to Miami-area hospitals following an overnight boat crash in the Lower Florida Keys Monday.

Officials with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said they located a vessel of interest after putting out a plea for information in a boat crash that left a spearfisherman dead in the Florida Keys early Friday afternoon.

Drivers in the Upper Keys should expect significant traffic congestion on the Fourth of July due to a parade in Key Largo, authorities confirmed Wednesday.

The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District has activated its mosquito-borne disease response plan and intensified mosquito control operations in Key Largo and Upper Matecumbe Key, the organization announced Monday.

The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Special Investigations Division conducted an operation Thursday targeting businesses selling alcohol in the Upper Keys.

Deputies took a 40-year-old man into custody Wednesday on four felony video voyeurism charges after they said he secretly recorded himself performing sex acts with two women in the Florida Keys.

Cleveland Browns defensive end Lonnie Phelps is facing a drunken driving charge in South Florida after police said he slammed an SUV into a Key West restaurant Wednesday night.

Recreational boaters found $1 million worth of cocaine floating in the ocean off the Florida Keys over the weekend, and on Wednesday, another brick of suspected cocaine was found, authorities confirmed.

A man fresh off probation yelled racial slurs at another boater as he passed by in his dinghy off Marathon, then flung a hatchet through the victim’s cabin window, according to an arrest report obtained by Local 10 News on Thursday.

Deputies in the Florida Keys arrested a man Monday after they said he broke into his 21-year-old neighbor’s home and hugged her.

A convicted felon admitted to detectives that he “may have gone ‘overboard’” in repeatedly punching a man at a Marathon park over the weekend, leading to his death, according to an arrest report obtained by Local 10 News on Tuesday.

A 37-year-old homeless construction worker was at the Monroe County Jail’s Key West facility on Sunday accused of killing a 54-year-old man at a public park.

The reef along the Florida Keys is the third largest barrier reef in the world, and has protective qualities in the events of storms and hurricanes.

Florida leads the nation in boating accidents, and the Florida Keys stand out as one of the busiest waterways.

A Doral police officer got out of jail Tuesday afternoon after being arrested on a drunken driving charge in the Florida Keys.

As hurricane season quickly approaches. emergency officials are getting South Florida residents and visitors prepared.

Summer time heat continues Friday and into the weekend with little relief in sight.

State transportation officials hosted a meeting Thursday night about potentially replacing a South Florida icon: the Seven Mile Bridge.

A beloved sea turtle named "Scooby" is finally on the mend, after marine scientists at The Turtle Hospital in Marathon help save her.

Firefighters battled a house fire in the Lower Florida Keys Tuesday morning.

A Key Colony Beach property owner paid a contractor $35,000 for deck work, but deputies said not only did the work never get done — the contractor never even purchased any supplies for the project.

Two women, Cassie Aran and Lauren, completed their 500-mile drive down the coast of Florida in an attempt to claim the Guinness World Record for “Longest Distance by Toy Cars.” The woman chronicled the extraordinary adventure — that took over three months — on social media to support their fundraising campaign aimed at helping and rescuing animals.

Heartbreak at the MOTE Marine Lab and Aquarium in Sarasota after the first rescued smalltooth sawfish from the Florida Keys had to be humanely euthanized on Thursday.

Pastor and accused child sex criminal Monte Chitty faced a Monroe County judge again Monday, a little more than two weeks after the 62-year-old returned to the Keys following his capture in Texas.

Police officers fired at a vandal who struck a patrol car with a tractor on Saturday at the College of the Florida Keys in Key West.

An endangered sawfish rescued last month in the Florida Keys after it was spotted acting erratically and swimming in circles has died as wildlife officials continue to search for what is causing fish to become distressed.

A South Florida man arrested last August — along with his wife — on charges related to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol entered a guilty plea in Washington federal court Tuesday.

A man was arrested over the weekend in the Florida Keys after he drove his car off the road, into the ocean, authorities confirmed Monday to Local 10 News.

Robert Allen Biser smirked in his Monroe County mugshot after being arrested on a felony charge, but, according to the sheriff’s office, another man told deputies that the 43-year-old got violent over something he didn’t think was a laughing matter at all.

The cases against a man and woman once accused of more than a dozen felonies in the Florida Keys were dropped, according to court records.

In the past week, the number of reported dead smalltooth sawfish has risen by three in the Florida Keys. That brings the total of dead sawfish to at least 43 since January. This is according to the FWC Abnormal Fish Behavior dashboard.

A worker at a South Florida McDonald’s is facing three felony charges after sheriff’s deputies said she attacked customers during a drive-thru dispute over the weekend.

A 62-year-old man who served as a First Baptist Church pastor when a teenage girl accused him of giving her a spiked alcoholic drink and sexually abusing her appeared in court on Saturday in the Florida Keys.

A 16-year-old girl was arrested Friday after deputies say she made a fake bomb and gun threat at a high school in the Florida Keys.

Marathon pastor Monte Chitty appeared sullen, with his head down, as two uniformed sheriff’s deputies led him from a van into the Key West jail Friday following his capture in Texas earlier in the month.