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Nearly 25 years after Janet Acosta, a beloved Miami Herald employee, was kidnapped and killed, her convicted murderer, Michael Tanzi, is scheduled to be executed in less than a week.
An ongoing brush fire in southern Miami-Dade County led to delays in an injured manatee getting treatment at a rehabilitation hospital, according to the group that rescued it Thursday in Marathon.
An “ancient,” 322-pound loggerhead turtle is getting a new lease on life thanks to an alert scuba diver who found it severely injured off the Florida Keys, according to the Turtle Hospital.
A Florida Keys man is facing multiple felony charges after authorities say he assaulted his pregnant girlfriend, prevented her from calling 911 and briefly barricaded himself inside his home before being taken into custody.
U.S. Border Patrol agents recently detained the driver of a blue Mitsubishi in the Florida Keys.
After a nine month lull, new accounts of spinning fish and dead sawfish are being documented in the Florida Keys.
Several restaurants across Florida were ordered to shut down last week by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation due to serious health violations, including rodent and roach activity.
ew dashcam video from the Florida Highway Patrol shows a man jumping off the Seven Mile Bridge in the Florida Keys as troopers chased him along U.S. 1 late last month.
Roughly 24 hours after she bonded out of the Monroe County jail after deputies accused her of drowning her Schnauzer puppy, Delaine Lowry was back behind bars after authorities said she tried to break into an animal shelter Wednesday to “steal dogs that previously belonged to her.”
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 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.
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.
Family members have identified the victims of a deadly personal watercraft crash in Marathon Tuesday evening as a man and his young son.
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.
The federal government announced a $241.5 million settlement with Marathon Oil on Thursday for alleged air quality violations at the company’s oil and gas operations on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota.
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.”
A 29-year-old Miramar man was arrested Thursday by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office following a traffic stop in Marathon in which multiple fake credit cards were found, along with IDs, phones, computers and the personal information of others, authorities said.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a press news conference at a restaurant in Marathon Wednesday morning.
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.
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.
A beloved sea turtle named "Scooby" is finally on the mend, after marine scientists at The Turtle Hospital in Marathon help save her.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A South Florida pastor accused of sexually battering a 15-year-old girl in his church became a wanted man Monday after skipping out on scheduled court hearings. He’s believed to be on the run.
A newly-released arrest report details explicit text messages that deputies say a Marathon pastor sent a 15-year-old girl after plying her with alcohol and sexually battering her while she was passed out on a couch in his church’s library.
Deputies arrested a South Florida pastor Monday morning after they accused him of sexually battering an intoxicated 15-year-old girl at his church.
Deputies in the Florida Keys say a Marathon man used his cellphone camera to record under a woman’s dress at Publix — but he was on camera too, leading to his arrest on a video voyeurism charge.
An argument over weed ended in a 37-year-old man facing multiple felonies in the Florida Keys Tuesday afternoon, according to deputies.
Authorities have captured a Wisconsin man wanted in South Florida after the FBI accused him of raping minors and sharing child sexual abuse material images and videos with an undercover federal agent in an online chatroom while he was living on a boat with his wife and seven children earlier this year.
Three men affiliated with the Outlaws Motorcycle Club biker gang were arrested after a traffic stop in the Florida Keys turned up guns and drugs on Monday, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.
Medics airlifted a man to a local hospital after he accidentally shot himself at a gas station in Miami Gardens Wednesday morning, according to police.
A scan revealed a 41-year-old woman was hiding fentanyl, powder cocaine, and crack cocaine in her body, deputies in the Florida Keys reported on Monday.
A 37-year-old man was tased and arrested Friday after deputies said he fired a gun in public while fleeing from officers in Marathon.
The Turtle Hospital in Marathon is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a suspect who shot a loggerhead turtle in the head with a spear, the organization’s manager said Tuesday.
Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay is urging to public to be aware of holiday toy drives that are being hosted by the Pagans Outlaw Motorcycle Club, one of South Florida’s most notorious gangs.
A man from the Florida Keys could be spending some time behind bars after deputies accused him of threatening to shoot down a U.S. Navy aircraft that flew over his home in Marathon this week.
Authorities with the U.S. Border Patrol and the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office stopped a suspected human smuggling operation involving more than 20 migrants Thursday morning.
A Marathon couple arrested by federal agents Monday on charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021 riots at the U.S. Capitol faced a federal judge in Key West Tuesday.
Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay spotted a sinking boat as he drove along U.S. 1 Thursday, leading a deputy to rescue five men from the waterlogged vessel, according to a sheriff’s office spokesperson.
Scientists and meteorologists are sounding the alarm about high water temperatures in the Florida Keys, and the damage being done to the coral reef.
Why would anyone want to steal about 300 gallons of used cooking oil from a holding tank at a restaurant in the Florida Keys? It happened on Tuesday in Marathon, according to the Monroe Sheriff’s Office.
Federal agents seized over $1 million worth of cocaine and hashish in the Florida Keys over the past week, a top U.S. Border Patrol official confirmed Wednesday.
A 32-year-old man was arrested Monday after authorities found nearly 170 pounds of cocaine on his sailboat during a search in Marathon, deputies said.
Deputies in the Florida Keys arrested an 18-year-old man after they said he shot into a mobile home in Marathon during a crowded party late Sunday night.
The NAACP over the weekend issued a travel advisory for Florida, joining two other civil rights groups in warning potential tourists that recent laws championed by Gov_ Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers are “openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals.”.
The Monroe County Sheriff’s office released bodycam footage Friday after responding to a man who was bitten in the leg by a shark in Marathon.
As more tourists come to the Florida Keys, some of whom are buying second homes, more residents are having a harder time finding an affordable place to live.
Nearly one month after a concrete balcony collapsed at an apartment complex in the Florida Keys, many residents said they are still looking for a place to stay after the building was deemed unsafe by Marathon city officials.
Wild video making the rounds online shows a powerboat spinning out in rough waters in the Florida Keys. In seconds, two people are seen being ejected from the vessel and thrown into the water.
A Jupiter man faced multiple charges after sheriff’s officials accused him of kneeing a deputy in the face at a Marathon motel Sunday afternoon.
A Marathon woman awoke to a horrifying surprise over the weekend, leading to deputies to arrest an accused burglar Wednesday, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.
Two rehabilitated green sea turtles were released back to their ocean home off the Florida Keys Saturday to mark Earth Day, according to the Florida Keys News Bureau.
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office has received reports of scammers posing as computer professionals over the phone with residents looking to resolve technical issues, authorities confirmed Tuesday.
A man wanted for murder in connection to a Marathon overdose death is set to be extradited back to the Florida Keys after Oklahoma authorities captured him over the weekend.
A 23-year-old woman was facing a murder charge on Thursday in the Florida Keys after detectives accused her of selling the fentanyl that caused a 53-year-old woman’s death.
The Sandbar Sports Grill in Key West was having to use bagged ice and bottled water on Tuesday morning after the third water line break in just a few days.
According to a newly-obtained Monroe County Sheriff’s Office report, two genital-centric insults turned a Marathon threesome into a tussle that ended with hurt feelings and a cinder block thrown through a car window.
U.S. Coast Guard crews rescued a small group of migrants Sunday as they traveled in a makeshift sailing raft in the Straits of Florida Sunday afternoon.
On an early morning in July 2022, deputies said they pulled over Yoankis Hernandez Pena, 38, and Andres Leon Valdes, 45, near Curry Hammock State Park in Marathon and found an injured deer inside their vehicle, on top of a cooler, lawn chairs and other various objects.
A 41-year-old man from Marathon was arrested early Wednesday morning after he assaulted deputies with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, authorities said.
A 31-year-old Marathon man was arrested Friday for breaking into a residence, damaging property and refusing to leave, deputies said.
Monroe County commissioners asked for more federal resources to deal with the ongoing migrant crisis in the Florida Keys, passing a resolution as they met Wednesday morning in Marathon.
