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The U.S. Coast Guard repatriated 83 illegal aliens to Haiti on Monday and 273 to Cuba on Sunday after ...

The refugees were stopped by the U.S. Coast Guard after they were spotted beginning around 4 p.m. Dec. 31 and continuing until Jan. 3 in various areas off the Florida Keys.

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A Monroe County judge has dismissed roughly 50 counts of illegally harvesting spiny lobsters from illegal fishing gear called lobster casitas, or lobster condos, against one Florida Keys commercial diver.

Big Pine Key resident Robert Nowicki and his wife were part of a four-person camping group staying on Garden Key from Friday, Dec. 30, to Monday, Jan. 2. The following

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The flow of Cuban migrants into the Florida Keys continued Monday, and it has overwhelmed local law enforcement agencies.

Vacationers on cruises in and out of Florida frequently encounter rafts of refugees seeking to escape the grind of failing economies and political repression in Cuba and elsewhere in the region.

1830: William R. Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose at seven. Reading the law on the subject of Bottomry bonds. Judge James Webb came and sat a good while conversing

The Coast Guard declined to comment on the nationality of the migrants, but initial reports were that their boat was a “chug,” or the type of makeshift vessel Cuban migrants often use to make the dangerous journey across the Florida Straits.