In southwest Florida, Sarasota hosts a pineapple drop at midnight on New Year’s Eve, complete with an all-day block party ...

Ring in 2026 with a shrimp, beach ball or even a drag queen shoe drop! Here are five Florida New year's Eve drops and where ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Pennsylvania’s famed groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, may have competition in Florida. Officials at Florida Keys Aquarium Encounters in Marathon claim a conch can also predict the ...

The 40th anniversary celebration of the Florida Keys’ symbolic secession from the United States, motivated by a 1982 U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint established on the only road connecting the Keys with ...

A Florida man is due in court after police said that while he was in the Keys he helped himself to two queen conch, which are illegal to harvest in the Sunshine State. Michael Ross Finch, 36, of ...

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — For a Delaware woman and a Florida man, past mastery of the trombone was the secret to winning top honors in Key West’s annual Conch Shell Blowing Contest on Saturday. Jayne ...

Florida seceded from the Union on Jan. 10, 1861. We were the third state to do so, behind South Carolina and Mississippi. As a founding partner in the Confederate States of America, Florida helped to ...

The Keys has always been a unique part of the United States, notably as the only place that ‘seceded where others failed.’ The republic formed following a 1982 U.S. Border Patrol blockade. In protest, ...

A conch shell blowing contest has taken place in Florida - with contestants judged on criteria like loudness, duration and novelty. Who won conch shell blowing contest? Video, 00:01:02Who won conch ...

The Florida Keys attract a cast of irreverent, lively characters and denizens – independent folk who embrace the perks of island living. Perhaps that’s why the Keys became the “Conch Republic” in 1982 ...

A 30-year-old woman from Dallas, Texas, is facing more than two weeks of jail time next month after removing protected conchs from the water last summer, the Florida Keys Keynoter reports. A Florida ...

The queen of the sea, a monster mollusk that inspired its own republic in Florida but now is as likely to be found in a frying pan or a gift shop as the ocean floor, is in trouble. A marine preserve ...