Stock Island News

Less than a week before Thanksgiving, a group of volunteers created an assembly line of sorts in order to package 250 bundles of food to give out to needy families.

Many families have less to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, and they are turning to local charities for help.

A construction worker who robbed a Key West credit union while on his lunch break in March 2008 was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison, but will get credit for the 21 months he already has spent in the Monroe County Detention Center on Stock Island.

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

Local law enforcement agencies are collecting unwrapped holiday toys and monetary donations for needy children and seeking needy families who want a visit from Santa.

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 ...

An unidentified man died while diving the Vandenberg wreck Friday afternoon, the Coast Guard said.

A recreational fishing organization that has sued the federal government over fishing quotas released a report Wednesday that says quotas benefit the commercial fishing industry and ignore the economic benefits of recreational angling.

A nursing home company that wants to reopen a Stock Island facility has asked the state to extend the former owner's license for one year, giving it time to complete the requirements for assuming that license.

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.