Monroe County News

The Stock Island fire station kitchen where firefighter Jay Rivera was cutting vegetables Friday looks more like a broom closet.

A Florida Keys couple is dead after detectives say the man apparently shot his girlfriend and then himself.

A Conch Key couple is dead and detectives say it appears the man shot his girlfriend in the head, Friday night, then killed himself with the same gun.Monroe County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman says Sgt.

Dengue fever has not spread beyond Key West, but health officials say residents in all the Keys should be vigilant to limit breeding of mosquitoes, which carry the fever-causing virus.This means dumping any standing water you have in your yards, Chris Tittel, spokesman with the Monroe County Health Department said.

Monroe County will ask the federal government to consider a new plan for ending the county's controversial inspections for illegal first-floor living spaces, after it rejected a previous suggestion.

The Monroe County budget just took another $1 million annual hit. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement no longer will use the Monroe County Detention Center on Stock Island as its... 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 . Home ...

With one of my favorite sporting events, the Tour de France, under way, I was inspired to take a ride I've been meaning to do since I moved here.

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A Texas man died while diving near Key West. The Monroe County Sheriff's Office reports that 51-year-old Richard McCoy Jr., from Cypress, Texas, was scuba diving near the Vandenburg wreck Friday.

The need for workforce housing in Marathon must be greater than anyone could have imagined.Applications are pouring in via telephone for the 84 available units at the Seagrape apartments, a Carlisle Group development nearing completion -- and a project many people thought would never get off the ground.

A former nursing home employee accused in civil court of misappropriating more than $150,000 from a resident of Plantation Key Convalescent Center is scheduled to be sentenced for contempt this Friday at the Monroe County courthouse in Key West.

Once a high-flying, prominent Key West Realtor, Troy Henson is now heading to state prison for what looks to be 15 years after pleading guilty Monday to two counts of molesting a child.Henson, 38, admitted to one count each of lewd and lascivious molestation and sexual activity with a child.

It has taken more than 15 years and about $600,000, but the sirens and bells once again will reverberate through historic Fire Station No.

Representatives of the proposed Sigsbee Charter School are to meet with Superintendent Joe Burke and other district officials this week to iron out details that could lead to a marine science-based charter school in Key West.

Interim City Manager Peter Rosasco will look at something old and something new as he prepares the Marathon City Council to pick a new full-time city manager.

A woman's body was found wrapped in plastic among mangroves along Jewfish Creek on Tuesday, Oct.

The body of a 48-year-old Palm Beach County woman has been found in Key Largo, according to Monroe County Sheriff's deputies.

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A 67-year-old Tennessee man died Tuesday while diving the Benwood wreck off Islamorada.U.S. Coast Guard Sector Key West says Larry Reeves, from Marysville, Tenn., was at the wreck, four miles east of Rodriguez Key, in the afternoon.Coast Guard search-and-rescue coordinators received the initial report of Reeves missing at 2:30 p.m. from the Coral ...

The man tapped to fill one of Monroe County government's most important positions has turned down the job, two days after the County Commission chose him and he accepted.