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The former manager of the defunct Cristal Clear Rentals no longer faces criminal charges in Monroe County. Full Story »

A former Boot Key Harbor resident is scheduled to be sentenced Friday on firearms charges stemming from death threats he made against then-President George Bush and then-presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008. Full Story »

How's this for scary? Full Story »

It's shaping up to be a subdued election this March in Key Colony Beach. Full Story »

Somewhere during a span of a dozen years, the Florida Keys lost 145,982 anglers. Full Story »

Key West city commissioners, with slight tweaking, have unanimously passed the final reading of a new law giving preference to local contractors on municipal jobs. Full Story »

A group of Middle Keys residents has literally and figuratively stopped the sludge on Bailey Street on Grassy Key. Full Story »

Resolution in the sewer-fees case between the city of Marathon and the Keys RV mobile-home park will likely come from a judge, not a settlement between the two parties. Full Story »

A development group chosen by the Key West City Commission to build a $32 million marina/destination park at the Truman Waterfront is set to meet with city officials later this month to discuss possible public financing for the project. Full Story »

Christopher Jennings, a Marathon man critically injured by Key West resident Pierson Villalobos in an auto crash Nov. 28, died this week. Full Story »

The Truman Waterfront Advisory Committee on Friday heard an update from Bahama Conch Community Land Trust Board member Bob Kelly on his group's plans to develop 6.6 acres of the parcel. Full Story »

Even when complete in 2013, a new one-mile bridge now under construction on the Tamiami Trail cannot by itself provide the water flow needed to restore Florida Bay, local scientists caution. Full Story »

In next August's primary election, Monroe County voters will likely have the opportunity to decide whether the School District superintendent should be elected, as is in the case now, or appointed by the School Board. Full Story »

Three Lower Keys men were jailed on numerous charges Thursday night after detectives, serving a search warrant, reportedly found a .40-caliber handgun, 25 grams of cocaine, 70 grams of marijuana and two Hydrocodone pills. Full Story »

The former fiance of a man accused of killing two people, one of them a former Key Wester, at a Stedman, N.C., car wash in 2006 testified for prosecutors on Wednesday that she recognized one of victims as someone the defendant had sold drugs to. Full Story »

Count state Rep. Ron Saunders, Democrat from Key West, among those who planned to stay away from the opening two days of the state Legislature's special session, which started Thursday. Full Story »

State officials say fixing the old Seven Mile Bridge and getting it reopened for fishing and, possibly, vehicles is no longer on their radar. Full Story »

Omar Brown, accused jewelry thief and accuser of police misconduct, has been living at the Monroe County Detention Center on Stock Island since 2006 -- charged but never convicted. In fact, not even tried. Full Story »

Former Pigeon Key Foundation Executive Director Jess Shows stole more than $30,000 from the Marathon nonprofit group, according to a Monroe County Sheriff's Office warrant for his arrest. Full Story »

An employee driving a Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority pickup truck crashed into the back of an SUV Tuesday, overturning the SUV, which crashed into a boat trailer and landed on its roof. Full Story »