Two couples on vacation in the Keys were enjoying a stroll Wednesday afternoon across from Anne's Beach Park when they made a grisly discovery: the body of a woman at the bottom of an embankment of mangroves and rocks.
KEY WEST
Forty years ago, a hippie artist named Nancy Forrester first saw a one-acre piece of land in the heart of Old Town Key West and glimpsed beauty amid the discarded beer bottles and trash piles.
LOWER MATECUMBE KEY
A makeshift raft carved from yellow Styrofoam was discovered Thursday on the Atlantic shoreline of Lower Matecumbe Key. A week earlier, another raft -- made of eight 55-gallon oil drums welded together -- was found on the same beach two miles north.
KEY LARGO
A Key Largo man was in critical condition Thursday evening after a driver cut him off on U.S. 1, forcing the car off the road and into a swamp, officials said.
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office says a man who led a deputy on a high-speed pursuit told investigators he was sleeping, not driving, during the chase.
FLORIDA KEYS
Autopsies performed this week offered a few clues about physical appearance, but no cause of death for the four unidentified bodies found floating in separate locations off the Florida Keys last week.
The Monroe County Commission is getting a makeover. In primary elections Tuesday, despite a low turnout, voters ousted Republican incumbents Charles ''Sonny'' McCoy and Dixie Spehar, ending what was known as the ''gang of three'' that also includes Mayor Mario Di Gennaro.
FLORIDA KEYS
The identity of the four people found dead this week in the waters off the Florida Keys remains a mystery. U.S. Coast Guard officials, who on Saturday morning conducted a search by air and by sea, came up empty of any clues to the consequences that led to their deaths.
FLORIDA KEYS
A lobster fisherman found the first body Thursday, floating in the ocean waters off the Middle Keys. A family on a snorkeling expedition to Alligator Key discovered the second body Friday morning, seven miles away near Lower Matecumbe Key.
Gov. Charlie Crist is heading to Key West Tuesday afternoon to inspect what little physical damage there is from Tropical Storm Fay and to spread the word: The Florida Keys are open for business again, but the entire state isn't yet in the clear.
Joyce Newman has considered what qualities she shares with more than a dozen other women who are subjects of a new book called Women Conserving the Florida Keys by Susan Nugent. She has come to this conclusion:
