Long Key State Park - 67400 Overseas Highway, Florida Keys, Florida, United States
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Florida Keys, Long Key State Park
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Woman falls from Islamorada hotel balcony
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 02/14/2008
Authorities say a woman fell three stories from a balcony at a resort in the Florida Keys. The Monroe County Sheriff's Office says 52-year-old Donna Gornto fell early Tuesday morning while staying at the Holiday Isle Resort in Islamorada with her boyfriend and 12-year-old son.
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Rare meteorite stolen at star-gazing party
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 02/08/2008
A rare meteorite was stolen this week during a star-gazing party held at a Girl Scout camp in the Keys. ''It's just beautiful,'' said the meteorite's owner, Bob Summerfield of Melrose, Pa. ``I describe it as celestial stained glass. I'm devastated. It's like losing a child to me.''
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UM biologist works to help reefs survive global warming
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 02/05/2008
For the better part of a decade, Andrew Baker has charted how rising ocean temperatures have ravaged reefs from the Florida Keys to Australia, triggering outbreaks of ''bleaching'' that drain corals of vibrant color and, frequently, life.
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Man found stabbed to death in shack
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 02/01/2008
A 46-year-old Miami man was found stabbed to death early Thursday in a shack on Big Pine Key. Jose Antonio Hernandez was covered in blood from several stab wounds when one of his brothers discovered him around 6:30 a.m., the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said.
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Getting rid of liquor stash `a nightmare'
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 01/29/2008
During his 30 years in banking, Hunter Padgett has never had a bigger challenge: how to shut down the largest liquor store in the Keys.
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Biker pedals across the U.S. -- backward
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 01/27/2008
Like many people before him, Curan Wright is biking across America for a good cause. Wright is just facing the wrong way. ''It was quite a freakish, slightly surreal experience,'' said British tourist Owen Darbishire of Oxford, who saw Wright recently in the Keys. ``Visually, he looked like he was riding his bicycle toward us, but when we got closer we realized he was riding backwards.''
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Mom found guilty of starving girl, 1
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 01/24/2008
When jurors in Key West were shown autopsy photos of the skin-and-bones body of Jasmine Marie Thomas, they gasped in horror. The Monroe County medical examiner testified that tiny Jasmine had starved to death due to neglect, weighing just 6 pounds, 9 ounces on her last day of life.
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Key deer found killed; species is endangered
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 01/23/2008
Wildlife officials are investigating the killing of several endangered Key deer, the tiny deer that live exclusively in the Florida Keys.
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Housing crunch prompts church to act
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
Since holding its first Mass in 1846, the church of Saint Mary Star of the Sea has been helping people in the far outpost of the Lower Keys. Its nuns treated patients with yellow fever in the 1870s, victims of the USS Maine explosion in Havana Harbor in 1898, and the needy during Key West's bankruptcy of the 1960s.
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Diversity is as easy as ABC at Lower Keys school
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 01/06/2008
Principal Fran Herrin knows how diverse the student body at Gerald Adams Elementary is simply by viewing the cafeteria at lunchtime. It looks like a miniature United Nations.
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Two die while scuba diving in Keys
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 01/01/2008
Two separate commercial scuba trips in the Upper Keys ended tragically the past two days with the death Sunday of a 50-year-old woman from Maryland and the death Monday of a 51-year-old man from Wisconsin, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.
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Homeowner thinks candles may have started fire
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 12/31/2007
Fire heavily damaged a Fort Lauderdale home on Sunday night. The panicked homeowner, Victoria Slack Romano, rushed outside and screamed for help.
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Coast Guard calls off search for missing boater
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 12/24/2007
(AP) -- The Coast Guard suspended its search Sunday for a 62-year-old man after his boat sank off the Florida Keys early Friday. A second man on the boat, Alejandro Rodriguez, 37, was rescued by another boater about 12 hours after it sank.
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Keys deputy dies in patrol car crash
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 12/14/2007
A Monroe County sheriff's deputy was killed Thursday in a car crash on U.S. 1 while responding to a medical emergency. Deputy Robin Tanner, 47, who was responding about 7 a.m. to a report of a woman not breathing, crashed her patrol car into the side of Marathon Dry Cleaners, leaving a huge hole in the building, police said.
