Blue Angels fly to Key West to gear up for big air show there next year
Lt. Cary Rickoff and Lt. Commander Adam Kerrick took one of the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels jets from Fort Lauderdale to Key West on Monday.
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Friend’s death at Trump resort odd irony in Ohio Senate race
In 1989, Gibbons' then-business partner, Kevin Brown, died in a power boat accident at Atlantic City hosted by the Trump Castle Hotel & Casino, which the president owned at the time. Trump outbid Key West, Florida, by $10,000 for the opportunity to host.
JDF liaison officer for US Joint Task Force base in Florida
JAMAICA is to assign a senior officer of the Jamaica Defence Force to the Key West, Florida, home base of the Joint Interagency Task Force South, in order to improve communications between the US-led coast guard unit and the JDF. Chief of defence staff of the JDF, Major General Rocky Meade, told the Jamaica Observer that the event is significant, as it is symbolic of the relationship between the United States and its Caribbean partners in creating a network to fight the criminal networks in the region.
The names of the 2 Navy aviators involved in fatal crash will be released tonight
The U.S. Navy late tonight will release the names of the two aviators who were killed Wednesday when the F/A-18F Super Hornet they were in crashed into shallow water at Naval Air Station Key West. The aviators were flying near Key West when the two-seat jet crashed around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Oceana-based jet crashes off Key West; 2 crew members dead
A US Navy fighter jet based at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach crashed off the coast of Key West, Florida on Wednesday afternoon. Both crew members have died.
Navy jet crashes off Key West, killing 2 crew members
A U.S. Navy fighter jet crashed Wednesday off the coast of Key West, Florida, killing its two crew members. The F/A-18 Super Hornet was on approach to land at the naval air station around 4:30 p.m. EDT, and crashed into the water about a mile east of the runway.
2 sessions focus on affordable housing
Two workshops on the affordable housing crisis in Key West are scheduled for this month, four months after Hurricane Irma devastated the Lower and Middle Keys. The first one is hosted by the City Commission and set for 6 p.m. Jan. 11 at City Hall, 1300 White St., with philanthropist and former Monroe County schools superintendent John Padget on the agenda with his proposal to build 480 rentals at the waterfront property at Trumbo Point, where the School Board has its administrative offices.
Irma’s destruction of trailers challenges Keys’ lifestyle
21, 2017, photo, Ed Swift, president of Key West-based Historic Tours of America, speaks during an interview, in Key West, Fla. "When housing is eliminated, as it was in this storm, there's literally no ... .
Officials: Returning to Keys? Be self-sustaining
As the devastated Florida Keys began reopening to residents who fled Hurricane Irma, officials warned the returning islanders to bring enough supplies to sustain them for a while, because no one yet knows when water and power will be fully restored. "The Keys are not what you left several days ago when you evacuated.
Social media gets the word out during Irma emergency
Florida Senators Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson flew over the Florida Keys and toured Key West to see the damage from Hurricane Irma. The Keys felt Irma's full fury when it blew ashore as a Category 4 hurricane Sunday morning with 130 mph winds.
Three dead as Hurricane Irma tears its way through Florida
Hurricane Irma roared through the Florida Keys yesterday with punishing 130mph winds and began pushing its way north, knocking out power to more than 1.69 million people across the state and leaving at least three people dead in the state, including a sheriff's deputy. The nearly 400-mile-wide storm was expected to make a slow, ruinous march up Florida's west coast, straight toward the heavily populated Tampa-St Petersburg area by this morning.
Irmaa s eye nears Lower Keys in coming hours
A recharged Category 4 Hurricane Irma, possibly the worst storm to hit the Lower Keys in more than a half century, is expected to make landfall in the coming hours after daybreak. At the National Weather Service in Key West, winds early Sunday had already begun to pick up, with some hurricane gusts and sustained winds between 45 and 60 mph, night shift meteorologist Adam Futterman said.
AOPA Files Official Complaints Over FBO Fees
On Aug. 28, AOPA, along with seven affected pilots, filed FAA Part 13 complaints over egregious FBO pricing practices at Illinois's Waukegan National Airport, North Carolina's Asheville Regional Airport, and Florida's Key West International Airport, on behalf of its membership. At each of these airports, a single FBO controls all transient ramp space and fuel services, which means each FBO possesses a monopoly position and significant power over access to a public airport.
In ultra liberal Key West, a Trump fan answers critics with an obscene letter
For a brief time this week, Alvin Crockett posted an angry handwritten letter to a political critic on the Trump campaign sign he put outside his scooter shop in Key West, Fla. President Barack Obama's Fayetteville, N.C. rally for Hillary Clinton grew rowdy when an elderly Trump supporter started protesting during the president's speech.
Police investigate bone diver found
Police were called to the Naval Air Station Key West entrance at Trumbo Road after a Coast Guard diver reportedly found a bone while diving Sunday, according to an incident report. The Coast Guard diver told police that he was diving near a Federal Aviation Administration tower about 30-feet off Fleming Key in about four to five feet of water at 6:45 p.m.,... For the complete article, please pick up a copy of The Citizen for this day or purchase this day's electronic edition at .