Monroe County

An investigation is underway after the body of a man was found floating in the Mississippi River south of St. Louis

State wildlife officials are tracking a black bear that was first spotted more than a week ago by southern Illinois residents and was most recently seen wandering near a state reservoir.

Authorities say three teenagers died after being ejected from a car after it struck a box truck in southern Illinois

It might not be as cool as the endoskeleton from “The Terminator” or as amiable as Rosie from “The Jetsons,” but a Florida airport is getting its own robot designed to kill COVID-19 and other pathogens

A diver who said he spent 10 hours in the water after drifting away from his boat in the Florida Keys was rescued by the Coast Guard early Friday. U.S. Coast Guard officials said the man’s wife called authorities around 10 p.m. Thursday when he didn’t come home after leaving from Cudjoe Key to American Shoal Light to dive....

A county sheriff in southwestern Illinois has tested positive for COVID-19, according to officials.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday pulled back the reigns of reopening, impacting bars, restaurants, gyms and some personal services. NBC 5’s Kate Chappell reports.

Officials say they’ve solved the 1991 murder case of a teenager who was raped and strangled with her bikini top on Valentine’s Day in the Florida Keys.

A teen who allegedly killed his brother and stabbed his father in the Florida Keys was hospitalized after he reportedly jumped in front of a moving car Thursday evening. Monroe County Sheriff’s officials had been searching all day for 17-year-old Daniel Weisberger, who they say allegedly stabbed both his 14-year-old brother as well as his father, 43-year-old Ariel Poholek,...

Deputies say a Florida bus driver chased a rider down the street and swung a metal pole at him because the rider had pulled down his coronavirus mask

Monroe County jail inmate Jason Aaron Gibson was charged Monday with animal cruelty after he was already being held on a vehicle theft charge.

A 12-year-old boy was allegedly chained up, abused and starved by his parents, who are circus promoters, before he died last week in Indiana, NBC News reported. The parents, 33-year-old Luis Posso and 26-year-old Dayan Median Flores, were charged with felony neglect Friday, a day after the boy, Eduardo, died in a hospital in Bloomington, according to a statement from...

A Northern California man who police say faked his own suicide to avoid jail for child sexual assault and pornography has been arrested in Florida.

A 29-year-old Miami man was arrested Sunday for fleeing deputies in a Ferrari in Monroe County, officials said.

Donald Howard Conkright of Big Pine Key was arrested Dec. 13 and charged with wire fraud, using the money to purchase a pricey BMW and Rolex watches.

Four New York City men were given jail sentences Monday in the death of a 19-year-old fraternity pledge during a 2013 hazing ritual in Pennsylvania and the Pi Delta Psi fraternity was banned from Pennsylvania for 10 years and ordered to pay a fine of more than $110,000 for its role in the pledge’s death.

Motorists who slightly exceed the speed limit through selected school zones on the Florida Keys Overseas Highway during the holidays might merely get an onion from the Grinch instead of a costly traffic citation.

A woman whose dramatic rescue during Hurricane Irma in the Florida Keys was caught on camera was killed this week in a hit-and-run collision, and now a man who fell in love with her while risking his life to help her is in deep mourning.

A Pennsylvania funeral director has been charged with abusing corpses for allegedly taking cellphone pictures of the dead to “gross out” her friends and family.

With 25 percent of the homes in the Florida Keys feared destroyed, emergency workers Tuesday rushed to find Hurricane Irma’s victims — dead or alive — and deliver food and water to the stricken island chain.