The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office says someone trashed the Florida Keys Country Club’s golf course in Marathon over the weekend. The vandal or vandals damaged several greens and stole a dozen of the course’s flag sticks.
A bale of what’s suspected to be cocaine was found by a Keys fisherman in Islamorada Saturday morning. If it is cocaine, the 40- to 60-pound bale is worth from $473,000 to $761,000 wholesale.
A Marathon, FL man was jailed after police said he posted a sexually explicit photograph of his ex-wife on Facebook. He has threatened to kill her before, Florida Keys police said.
Due to the partial government shutdown, the United States Coast Guard will not be paying its service members until either a budget, or a continuing resolution, is passed. Operations, however, will continue as usual.
After finding our Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies were about to search his car, the driver threw his keys inside the vehicle and locked the doors. Cops say he was hiding cocaine, heroin, meth and marijuana.
Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies pulled over a car in Key Largo after receiving a report it was stolen in Fort Lauderdale. Two Key Largo men were arrested on grand theft auto charges and a third man was booked on cocaine possession.
The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a Miami man who was last seen departing Marathon in the Middle Florida Keys on Saturday riding a personal watercraft. He was expected to return to shore on Monday, Christmas eve.
From the Herald archives: Her name was Lisa Sanders. She was a leukemia survivor. She had just moved to the Florida Keys. She was 20. A few months later, in December 1988, deputies found her nude and mutilated body in a rural area of the island chain called No Name Key.
Florida residents who suffered damage to their homes from Hurricane Irma in 2017 have more time, until March, to register for the Rebuild Florida program.
Capt. Jimmy Lewis has tended a school of tarpon near his Bayside slip in downtown Miami for more than a decade, feeding the fish, removing hooks and using them to educate the public. Somebody thought that made them easy prey.
Coral Gables has embraced climate change, banned plastic bags and vowed to power itself with renewable energy by the end of the century. But when it comes to rooftop solar panels, critics say being green takes a back seat to staying beautiful.
State investigators arrested a Kendall man on grand theft and fraud charges. He was booked into county jail in the Florida Keys. He’s accused of filing a false insurance claim on a boat accident that didn’t happen.
Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies pulled over a Homestead man in Islamorada after seeing him drive a car reported stolen from a Hertz rental car lot. Cops found heroin, marijuana and other drugs inside.
A Key West wedding party was ruined after a groomsman showing off his knife at the bar inadvertently stabbed the groom in the thigh. Police said there was no intentional harm.
Naples and Glades County feel impact of severe Florida storms ahead of a cold front in the morning. Everglades, Belle Glade between 1-4 p.m. Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach between 4-7 p.m.
An Islamorada man was arrested on an aggravated stalking warrant after Monroe County Sheriff’s Office detectives say he threatened a woman’s life and badgered her at work and while she was out with friends for a year.
