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It's easy to see why bookkeeper Linda Mortimer moved to the Florida Keys 20 years ago: the impossibly blue water, the year-round sunshine, a lifestyle so laid-back that every day is like a Jimmy Buffett lyric.
A 13-year project to create a new artificial reef off the Florida Keys for sport divers and anglers culminated Wednesday with the scuttling of a 523-foot-long former U.S. Air Force missile tracking ship.
A dog is recovering after a Florida Keys carpenter dove in to save his pet from a shark. Greg LeNoir said he took his 14-pound rat terrier Jake for a daily swim at a marina Friday.
Weakened to a tropical depression, Ike was expected on Sunday to move northeast through the Lower and Mid-Mississippi Valleys and into the Lower Great Lakes region. Three to 8 inches of rain were possible in southeastern Oklahoma, western Arkansas, southern and eastern Missouri, Illinois, northern Indiana and southern Michigan.
The Gulf Coast watched anxiously as Hurricane Ike trudged toward areas still cleaning up after Gustav, with disasters pre-declared in much of eastern Texas and Louisianans urged to stock up — again — on supplies.
Deadly Hurricane Ike roared across Cuba on Monday, blowing homes to rubble and sending waves crashing over apartment buildings. Some 900,000 Cubans evacuated, and forecasters said it could hit Louisiana or Texas later this week.
Tropical Storm Fay was expected to travel westward on Saturday as it's direction remains under the influence of an area of high pressure over the Northeast. The system was likely to move slowly while producing heavy rains and put areas of western Florida at risk of flooding.
Two years since a hurricane last lashed at Florida, many residents took a wait-and-see attitude Monday as a strengthening Tropical Storm Fay swept across the Florida Keys and bore down on the Gulf Coast.
Two green sea turtles are leaving the Florida Keys for their new home at a Connecticut aquarium via FedEx.
A commercial fisherman is charged with poaching thousands of spiny lobsters with traps that damaged coral reefs and sea grasses in sensitive marine waters, in a case that spotlights an ongoing problem off the Florida coast.
Reeling in a 45-pound grouper used to be just an average day on the water in the Florida Keys.
A team of U.S. Navy audiologists conducted a hearing test Saturday on a rare beaked whale convalescing at a marine mammal rehabilitation center in the Florida Keys.
Relatives of the first husband of a five-time widow said he was shot to death at work more than 50 years ago and the culprit was never found.
Experts found a tiny gold combined toothpick and earwax spoon, believed to be more than 385 years old, during the search for a shipwrecked Spanish galleon off the Florida Keys.
A boater who was killed when a ray jumped out of the water in the Florida Keys and hit her face died of skull fractures and brain injuries, not from the animal's poisonous barb, a medical examiner said Friday.
A 75-pound stingray killed a Michigan woman Thursday when it flew out of the water and struck her face as she rode a boat in the Florida Keys, officials said.
Preliminary results of a necropsy show that a pygmy sperm whale found stranded off the Florida Keys died of heart failure, marine mammal experts said.
A relatively minor glitch in Florida's electrical grid somehow triggered a chain reaction Tuesday that caused a nuclear plant to shut down and briefly cut power in patches from Daytona Beach through the Florida Keys.
A pygmy sperm whale found stranded off the Florida Keys was in critical condition at a rehabilitation center on Sunday.
A Coast Guard cutter plucked two people out of the water uninjured Thursday after their small plane crashed off the Florida Keys.
The absence of electricity is what drew Hallett and Linda Douville to No Name Key in 1990.
In a March 17 story about three men who died while diving off the Florida Keys, The Associated Press, relying on information from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, erroneously reported the name of a survivor. His name is Howard Spialter, not Spralter. The corrected version appears below.
Loggerhead Turtle cam goes live in the Florida KeysEnvironmental enthusiasts should be able to observe infant loggerhead sea turtles hatching and emerging from their nest, via a streaming Webcam in the Florida Keys.
I saw on one of the news channels today that putting the Polar Bears on the Endangered Species list was ineffective in protecting them from the global warming which is melting the artic ice because if the causative action happened outside the arctic, the law did not cover it.
Ten teens in Florida Keys charged with making porn videoTen teenagers from the Florida Keys were charged with child pornography for participating in the shooting of a video showing two of them having consensual sex.
Robo CrocVeterinarians in Miami have successfully fitted a badly injured crocodile with metal plates and 41 Frankensteinian screws on its skull. More Articles
Man Dives In, Punches Shark To Save DogGreg LeNoir said he took his 14-pound rat terrier Jake for a daily swim at a marina Friday. The five-foot shark suddenly surfaced and grabbed nearly the entire dog in its mouth. See more irresistible headlines
China, Cuba and India Drilling Offshore of America? Maybe Not, Correction from Mother Jones AddedThe Chinese and Cubans in a joint venture to drill off the Florida Keys??? And this has been going on for a couple years already? The righties are seizing on this as another reason to drill offshore or in the ANWR, but I am more concerned about ruining sensitive environmental ar …
Python vs. Croc: Invasion Coming to FloridaBurmese Pythons are invading the Florida Everglades after being introduced more than 10 years ago. They've even swum more than six miles to the Florida Keys. This is a dangerous situation for people, animals, and habitat around Florida – even crocs!
Barracuda Bites Fla. Boy During Field TripThe boy was visiting Curry Hammock State Park with a school science program. The group was casting nets into the shallow water to collect sea life when a barracuda bit the boy on the thigh.
Contaminated Water Reaches Florida's Offshore KeysA new University of Georgia study finds that sewage-contaminated groundwater is reaching the offshore reefs of the Upper Florida Keys, possibly threatening corals and human health.
NPR : Hefner Bunnies Threatened by Untamed CatsJust to let everyone know that once in a while something comes along that makes all other news pale by comparison. Plus the fact that those involved actually trapped the perpetrators and shipped them to a region where they would also be safe.
Labor Being Bused Into The Florida KeysInteresting story about how labor is being bused into the Keys every day from South Florida.
Conch Republic annexes abandoned Keys bridge reached by 15 Cubans: South Florida Sun-SentinelThe mock Conch Republic on Friday ``annexed'' an abandoned bridge in the Florida Keys that the federal government ruled was not U.S. territory when 15 Cubans landed there last week.
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