Tavernier News

Kristen Rivera and Didier Miles were two young Miami-Dade County waiters who came to Islamorada for the annual end-of-season bash for South Florida restaurant industry workers.

Imagine the job description: Twelve-hour days in the hot sun, drenching rain, biting mosquitoes, thigh-deep mud, and wading in waters patrolled by sharks and crocodiles.

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.

A fire destroyed three homes in a Key Largo neighborhood Sunday afternoon. All the homes were unoccupied and nobody was injured, said Becky Herrin, a spokeswoman with the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.