Cudjoe Key News

UPDATE: Another traffic fatal in Keys, 6th since Nov. 28.Editor's note: The story below was posted before this following information came in late Tuesday, making it six traffic fatalities in the Keys since Nov.

For 80-year-old Auwina Weed, being home on Thanksgiving Day is not an option. She is one of four tenants of 629 Caroline St.

Local law enforcement agencies are collecting unwrapped holiday toys and monetary donations for needy children and seeking needy families who want a visit from Santa.

Thanks to helpful readers, we've found just the recipe for M.W., whose Pakistani son-in-law wished to taste again a dish his late mother made for breakfast with rice, milk, carrots, raisins and pistachios.

Metro Orlando 's toll-road agency is more open than it used to be but still needs to improve the way it deals with the public, a consultant who reviewed the authority's inner workings has decided.

Key West's cigar-making history is being celebrated Wednesday, Nov. 4, with a new brass sculpture being installed in a small park at 616 Louisa Street.

Orlando Boquete, a Mariel refugee erroneously convicted of sexual assault in the Keys and threatened with deportation to Cuba, is now trying to become a permanent U.S. resident, which would make him eligible for citizenship.In 1983, Boquete was convicted of a Stock Island rape and sentenced to 55 years in prison.

Orlando Boquete, a Mariel refugee erroneously convicted of sexual assault and threatened with deportation to Cuba, is now trying to become a permanent U.S. resident, which would make him eligible for citizenship.

Two 23-year-old Bay Point men are facing a maximum five years in prison and a $250,000 fine after conspiring to poach more than $150,000 worth of lobster last year.

There's no commercial airline serving Marathon, but that doesn't mean you can't board a flight from there to anywhere in the continental U.S., Bahamas, Caribbean and Mexico.AirStar Executive Airways has offered charter service to all these locations from Florida Keys Marathon Airport since 2007.President and Chief Executive Officer James Baker ...

A man on Florida's death row for kidnapping, beating, robbing, raping and murdering a Miami Herald employee before dumping her body in Cudjoe Key nine years ago could be back in the Florida Keys... For the complete article, please pick up a copy of The Citizen or purchase today's electronic edition at http://secure.floridakeys.com/keysnews/enews .

CUDJOE KEY: A man who stole a boat motor and fled from deputies Tuesday night was arrested Thursday night, the Sheriff's Office says.

Fort Lauderdale resident Joseph Cheries' first trip to the Keys was memorable -- not so much for him, but certainly for his worried wife Inga and their neighbors.The 86-year-old became disoriented leaving the Galleria mall in Fort Lauderdale on the afternoon of Aug.

The Seventh Coast Guard District bridge administration branch has received a permit request to construct a pedestrian bridge next to U.S. Highway 1 between Cudjoe Key, Fla., and Summerland Key, Fla.

Authorities say six Florida residents have been sentenced in federal court to prison and probation after a yearlong investigation into illegally harvested lobsters.

Florida's two-day sport season for lobster is Wednesday and Thursday. There will be plenty of arrests for over-the-limit violations, but probably nothing like what happened last year.

The rash of Monroe County boat engine-related thefts continued over the weekend as three more incidents were reported, bringing the total to 54 reported thefts in the county since January.

Debra and Rory Brown were applying in 2006 for an elevator permit to help their newly paralyzed son get around the Cudjoe Key stilt home they bought three years earlier when they made an upsetting discovery: Their downstairs enclosure is illegal.

It's now past the half-century mark -- 51 boat motors or lower units of motors stolen in the Keys since Jan.

The theft of a boat engine Wednesday on Cudjoe Key raises to 49 the number of outboard motors and outboard lower units reported stolen between Big Pine Key and Stock Island since Jan.