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Crews prepare for hurricanes
A team of Monroe County emergency responders recently conducted a drill to ensure the best response if a hurricane threatens the Lower Keys. Personnel from Key West Fire and Rescue, Key West Police Department, Monroe County Fire and Rescue, Lower Keys Medical Center, and the U.S. Air Force Air National Guard joined forces to participate in the drill. If Monroe County calls for a mandatory evacuation, hospital patients must be flown to other hospitals. During the drill, volunteers posing as patients were transported from the hospital to the tarmac at the Naval Air Station Key West, where they were boarded on a transport plane.
State files charges in child sex case
MARATHON — The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office and the State Attorney’s Office have formerly filed child sexual battery charges against a father of seven who has already pleaded guilty to federal charges of production and distribution of child pornography. Monroe County authorities filed 17 felony and misdemeanor...
Six chosen as potential TDC director
KEY WEST — A committee acting on behalf of the Monroe County Tourist Development Council has whittled down its list to six potential candidates to run the TDC, and outgoing Key West Mayor Teri Johnston was not one of them. Johnston, who will leave office later this year, was...
Man cited in fish case
Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputies issued a 50-year-old Miami man a mandatory notice to appear in court citation last week for reportedly possessing one undersized mangrove snapper and one undersized schoolmaster snapper. Sheriff’s Office Marine Deputies Nelson Sanchez and Jason Farr were conducting resource checks at the Indian Key...
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