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What Small Business Owners Need to Know about Defined Benefit Plans The 2015 tax deadline has passed by and if you are a small business …

Peary Court buyer may receive $12.5 million taxpayer incentive for purchase BY PRU SOWERS, KONK LIFE STAFF WRITER Calling it a “second bite at the …

Local Observation – Christina Oxenberg When I was 7 I remember being dispatched for a week to the house of an old lady, a friend of my …

Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority Tritium Sampling Test Results Florida Keys – April 29, 2016 – Recent news reports have prompted questions about the movement of …

Locals Free Sunday At The Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden KEY WEST –November 1st is the first Sunday of the month and is …

Being a Locavore By Diane Johnson Some of us are carnivores, also known as meat eaters like my husband. Others prefer to be herbivores better …

Social media lit up by firefighters’ pics of the West ablaze ALINA HARTOUNIAN, Associated Press Firefighter Stephanie Preheim had only just arrived at the storage …

New collars monitor pets for pain, problems SUE MANNING, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — You can use wearables with GPS to keep track of …

Boaters mapping Pacific garbage arrive in San Francisco OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Far away from California’s coast, where the Pacific …

Another Duval St. Cosmetic Shop Rip Off? Special To Konk Life August 20, 2015 Another Duval St. Cosmetic Shop Rip Off? A couple of seniors …

Eating Healthy in the Keys By Diane Johnson To celebrate Healthy Living Month, we are highlighting where you can find fresh local organic produce. Each …

Conditions on Pluto: Incredibly hazy with flowing ice MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer   CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Pluto is hazier than scientists expected …

2 visions emerge for getting self-driving cars on road DEE-ANN DURBIN, AP Auto Writer   DETROIT (AP) — Two competing visions could determine how you …

Sheriff’s Office remembers Deputy Guy Bradley, killed in the line of duty This week, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office remembers Guy Bradley, who worked as …

Tropical paradise was bankrupt in the 1930’s BY PRU SOWERS KONK LIFE STAFF WRITER With a record-breaking tourism season last winter, new businesses opening and …

Mozambique destroys ivory, rhino horn in anti-poaching move CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Mozambique destroyed a large stockpile of confiscated ivory and rhino …

Treasures from sunken Spanish galleon set for auction ULA ILNYTZKY, Associated Press   NEW YORK (AP) — A solid gold chain and an intricate gold-and-enamel …

Photographer Clyde Butcher finds freedom with digital camera JENNIFER KAY, Associated Press   MIAMI (AP) — Clyde Butcher’s black-and-white landscape photography is known for evoking …

Thousands gather in Portland as Oregon eases into legal weed TIM FOUGHT, Associated Press   PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon began easing into an era …

High schoolers’ experiment lost again on launch failure SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Three high school students were going to get the science lesson of …