Stock Island News

A man found guilty of beating another man to death on a Keys boat should get the death penalty, a Monroe County recommended Friday by a vote of 11-1. Last week, the same jury found Jonathan Leo LeBaron guilty of premeditated murder in the Feb.

Having convicted Jonathan LeBaron of first-degree murder on May 1, a 12-member jury reconvened Tuesday in Key West to consider whether to recommend the death penalty.Monroe County Circuit Court Judge Mark Jones will make the final decision, but a 7-5 vote of the jury for death - instead of life imprisonment with no chance of parole - is given ... (more)

The Key West Sail & Power Squadron will offer America's Boating Course for six evenings in June after county schools are out for the summer.

A local company is asking the city for permission to open up a New Town tattoo parlor, six years after Key West ended its longtime ban on the business of permanent inking.

Two Stock Island men accused of attempting to sell stolen high-powered rifles and ammunition to an undercover informant have been federally indicted and are facing a decade in prison.

A Key West High School senior and standout athlete accused of having sex with another male student five years younger was arrested Tuesday.

Murder defendant Jonathan LeBaron took the stand Tuesday and pegged the bloody 2009 beating and stabbing death of a Stock Island boat owner on his ex-girlfriend, who is a co-defendant and former prostitute.

At almost two years old, the civil lawsuit against the city that wants the homeless shelter on Stock Island shut down is still in legal infancy.

Prosecutors rested their death penalty case Monday against Jonathan LeBaron, who is charged with murder in the 2009 beating death of 58-year-old Richard Gardner.

If jurors in the first-degree murder trial of Jonathan Leo LeBaron had any doubt how brutal the killing he's accused of was, it was dispelled Wednesday afternoon.The 12-member panel was shown a lengthy video and about 100 photos detailing the violent beating and death of Cape Coral resident Richard Gardner, 57, aboard his boat, Flo To Me, at the ... (more)

The Key West Rugby Club will debut their new uniforms when they face Bermuda Rugby at 3 p.m., today, at Bernstein Park on Stock Island.

A federal judge has handed down a 70-month prison sentence to the man who robbed a New Town bank in October with a threatening note and used a bicycle as a getaway vehicle, prosecutors and the assigned public defender said.

Opening arguments in the first-degree murder trial of Jonathan Leo LeBaron began Tuesday at the Freeman Justice Center in Key West.

While bemoaning the six-year public ownership of the Hickory House property on Stock Island, Monroe County commissioners said some good has come of the lamentable purchase."We've put a stop to more foolish projects," Commissioner Sylvia Murphy offered, "simply by saying, here we go with another Hickory House."Commissioners, meeting April 17 in Key ... (more)

Kirsten Whitmore walked back into circuit Judge Mark Jones courtroom Tuesday nearly three years after the judge sentenced her to 18 years in prison for her role in a gruesome Stock Island murder.

The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District have launched an all-out assault on a bloodthirsty foe that has invaded the Keys -- again.