Stock Island News

Florida Keys fishermen today will get their chance to voice their concerns about a series of proposed annual fishing limits for grouper and snapper, and the possible closing of large fishing areas from Florida to North Carolina.

City officials in Key West are trying to help local contractors by changing an existing law.

One ticket matched the four winning numbers plus the Mega Ball number to collect $650,000 in the Mega Money game, the Florida Lottery said Wednesday.

Monroe County received only one bid for a controversial piece of Stock Island property the county has been trying to unload for the past several years.

Beta Omega Sorority will be hosting the 3rd Annual Kendyll Ryann Bliss Memorial Scholarship Fundraiser on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at the Yacht Club of the Americas on Stock Island.

The Florida Keys Community College board has given Student Suites permission to design and seek financing for the new dorms on the Stock Island campus, according to a resolution on today's agenda.

A plan to test an underwater turbine that will convert tidal currents in the Bahia Honda Channel into electricity has cleared its penultimate hurdle.

Orlando Boquete, a Mariel refugee erroneously convicted of sexual assault in the Keys and threatened with deportation to Cuba, is now trying to become a permanent U.S. resident, which would make him eligible for citizenship.In 1983, Boquete was convicted of a Stock Island rape and sentenced to 55 years in prison.

An allegedly intoxicated man played bumper cars on Frances and then Southard streets about 5:15 p.m. Monday, causing an estimated $20,000 in damage to property in his path, police said.

Melodye Reger's vision for a sustainable restaurant is coming to fruition with the Sept.

A 62-year-old Clearwater man was jailed Monday after allegedly using a golf putter to beat a man who tried to kiss him, saying he was acting out of "moral self defense," police reports say.

Two 23-year-old Bay Point men are facing a maximum five years in prison and a $250,000 fine after conspiring to poach more than $150,000 worth of lobster last year.

After years of financial planning, Monroe County Fire Rescue is set to unveil a modern $3.2 million fire station Saturday, dedicating the new facility in the memory of the county's first paid fire chief, who died last year.

The latest arrest warrant for former Monroe County School District administrator Monique Acevedo paints a picture of an entire family complicit in her alleged crimes.For the third time since April, Acevedo was jailed on Thursday, charged with grand theft of $100,000 or more, and fraud for illegally obtaining property worth $50,000 or more.

More people than usual are in need in the Florida Keys, and one local charity has found a way to help more people without an overlap of services among various charities.

A 22-year-old woman was charged with attempted murder Thursday night after she allegedly attacked her boyfriend with a butcher knife during a dispute over another woman, police reports say.

A 38-year-old Key West commercial fisherman on federal probation for cocaine possession will serve seven years in prison after being convicted and sentenced Friday for stealing stone crab traps on Stock Island in November.

A 45-year-old man who critically injured and disfigured a former roommate in a machete attack last year will serve the next 15 years in prison as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors.

The partial remains of what appear to be the remains of a missing Big Coppitt Key man have been found by the U.S. Coast Guard near the Western Sambos off the Atlantic side of the Lower Keys.The Monroe County Sheriff's Office says it received a call on Saturday from a person who'd been walking along Boca Chica Beach on Big Coppitt and found a boat ...

A town hall meeting this week is designed to ensure area residents are part of the planning process for a new housing community on Flagler Avenue, at the site of the current St.