Note: The names of the individuals involved in this crime have been excluded from this article to protect the victims. A Florida Keys woman was sentenced to 13 years in prison this week after pleading guilty to various sex crimes involving children. The woman, 37, pleaded guilty this week to…
Nearly three years after mail carrier Pamela Jane Rock was killed by a pack of dogs in Florida, a law has been created to increase safety and penalties for aggressive animal owners. Per HB 593, which goes into effect July 1 in the state, owners of dogs considered to be…
A 9-year-old boy and his father, 47, were identified as the two people killed when a personal watercraft crashed earlier this week into a Marathon, Florida, sea wall. The two crashed on a 2018 Yamaha personal watercraft just before 7 p.m. in a Boot Key Harbor canal near 15th Street…
An 83-year-old Marathon, Florida, woman retained Leesfield & Partners to represent her after a neighbor’s pet bird attacked her while she folded towels at the community pool. The woman lives alone in the Marathon community in a two-story condominium and was watching her granddaughter swim in the pool the day…
February 18, 2010- Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWCC) employee Elizabeth Overstreet was driving a FWCC truck northbound on U.S. Highway 1 near Marathon, Florida, while towing a trailer and an enormous 31-foot fishing boat. Overstreet was driving at the posted speed limit of 55 mph when she realized…