News on Monroe County

Family Strangled House

2010-06-16T10:27:10Z

In this photo taken Monday, May 24, 2010, a window remains boarded up at a two-story house where a mother and her two young sons were found strangled a year ago sets vacant in Columbia, Ill. A foreclosure sale is planned Tuesday afternoon May 25, 2010 in Monroe County for the Columbia home where Sheri Coleman an...

$20 Million Art Heist

2010-03-29T07:18:15Z

In this undated photo provided by the Monroe County Correctional Facility, Alfonso Frank Frazetta, 52, of Marshalls Creek, Pa., is seen. Police say Frazetta used a backhoe to break into a museum owned by his father, the renowned fantasy artist Frank Frazetta, in an attempt to steal 90 paintings worth $20 million. Pennsy...

Missing Girl Michigan

2010-04-07T03:15:07Z

Monroe County Sheriff Tilman Crutchfield addresses the media during a news conference in Raisinville Township, Mich., Friday, June 5, 2009. The sheriff says police have a "reasonable suspicion" that a child's body discovered along a river is that of a 5-year-old girl who disappeared nearly two weeks ago. Crutchfield said the body appears to be of the same age, size and sex as Monroe County sheriff's department, Neviaeh Buchanan is seen. Authorities have issued an Amber Alert for Buchanan, a missing 5-year-old Monroe girl, and are questioning a friend of her mother arrested on a parole violation charge. (AP Photo/Monroe County sheriff's department)

Florida News - January 06, 2009

2010-04-10T11:01:21Z

010609 np JUSTFORKIDS Photo by Damon Higgins/The Palm Beach Post ..0060085A - Boca - A sample pile of the items that JustForKids gives out to children throughout Palm Beach County. The items include shoes, pants, shirts, underwear, socks, binders, notebooks, and school supplies. JustForKids, an organization that started in